Protected yet Imprisoned

Protected yet Imprisoned by Jesslyn Tan is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

There are times when you feel so much pain and anguish that you never wish to experience it again. So you build a wall around yourself to protect you. And i don't mean the wall as in the visible slab of concrete that keeps you safe from the outside, the wall which you can easily break. The wall I speak of is but a mere figment of imagination that cannot be seen by anyone except the holder themselves, and it cannot be broken as easily as one might think. For in order to break them, you need to break the very person who built them up.

You put up the wall not only to keep yourself from hurting others, but also to keep others from hurting you.

But there are consequences to putting such things around you. For the longer you put them up, the longer you isolate yourselves from those around you. You would wish to open yourself up and let others in, but because you're afraid of the past repeating itself, you stop yourself from doing so, and it not only hurts yourself, but those around you as well.  And in the end, even though you're with your friends or in a crowd, you can still feel the loneliness inside you. And now, the very wall that you put up to protect yourself, becomes the very thing that imprisons you, that stops you from moving forward.

This is the meaning behind the picture that i show you. The glass heart shows the fragility of your own, and the cage represents the wall that I speak of. The wall that protects you, and the wall that imprisons you.