“We build too many walls and not enough bridges”

– Isaac Newton

Sometimes in life we find ourselves in a bad place that causes us pain and makes us unhappy. All too often our reaction to this is to bunker down and build walls to protect ourselves. But all we are really doing is reinforcing ourselves in the bad place, further entrenching ourselves and making it that much harder for anyone else to reach us.

When we find ourselves in a place we do not want to be, we should instead use that same effort to built bridges instead. Something that will take us somewhere else. It can be a bridge to be with people you know care about you, a bridge so someone else can reach you if you don’t have the strength to leave the bad place on your own yet, or just a bridge to somewhere different. You don’t know what that journey of the bridge will bring, but you know for sure that whatever it might be has got to be better than sitting behind a big wall with only the bad place that you know surrounding you.