The Strength of a Fingernail

I found myself contemplating my fingernails after washing dishes one day. I noticed how soft they were and how some of them were breaking on the sides. After deciding that it was finally time to cut the fingernails and start over...I realized there was a valuable lesson here.

Fingernails are constantly under pressure. If you constantly use your hands, they are prone to a break, becoming soft and brittle.

Us humans are the same way. We go through, what we consider our "daily struggle". We are constantly under a pressure caused by ourselves or those who we have allowed in our space. Just as those fingernails are tearing and becoming brittle, we break down (even if just for a moment).

My fingernails have been for weeks showing signs of tears. What I would do is immediately grab my nail kit. In it was a small file, buffer, glue, and wooden stick. I would carefully file and/or buffer, glue the tear, and then use the stick to clean up any glue.

Eventually the nail glue wouldn't be enough to hold and keep my fingernails together. I would glue a tear, and the next few days it would tear in a different place. That's how it is with us humans. We are so known for piecing our lives together. We are known to pick up the pieces and trying to glue it together as it was. But eventually, the pieces won't fit together or there would be a missing piece. It is not because there is something wrong with us, it's because we've outgrown the situation, it's not the right time or that we have something better waiting for us.

Notice how I said "we try to glue it together as it was".

How many times have you done the same as I've done with my nails?

How many times have you glued a piece back and another piece has fallen off?

How many times have you freaked out when you barely see a piece hanging on?

Gluing the pieces back together won't make everything else go away.

It won't make the circumstances any better.

It won't make the problems go away.

Sometimes it takes for us to examine each piece carefully, to become vulnerable. To truly understand that it's okay to be under pressure, but have the desire and the open-mind to be open to change...to start over. It's okay to start over, because you'll grow stronger. You'll find a better way to handle the situation should it arise again. You'll be prepared with another tool in your kit that would be more effective than that buffer, file, glue and wooden stick.

My fingernails will grow back stronger, just as I know I would.

I had so much fun preparing this workshop for you, you are free to contact me on Live Chat and check out other workshops at the Work With Me tab.

Yvonne (Eve)

xoxo

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