Sometimes I think my heart and
my mind are a mystery. Why do I say this? Well, there are times when I am in such a struggle between reasoning and the heart
that I often have doubts about their connection. Is there such a connection? It seems to me that I always listen to one or
the other but I can never integrate them or make them agree at the same level. I constantly live in a struggle about what
do I want to do and what do I need to do. The heart tells me to do things that I am totally comfortable
with but then there is the still voice of reasoning saying…How can you do that? How can you let yourself get hurt again?
There are times when the heart wins and other times when reason gets it its way.
How can I make them be friendly with one another? I am in the
middle of a battlefield and no matter how much I struggle I cannot win. Is there a way to say goodbye to a loved one and really
take them completely out of your heart until there are no roots left? Is this possible? Maybe not…maybe it just takes
time. I guess only time will give me the answer.
- Lourdes I. Irizarry
