Posted on by Belladonna

One Line Is All I GOT

Smiles cover up wounds!

There is no time like the present to remove the fake smile and fix the wounds. We can walk around our entire life hiding behind a smile instead of healing our wounds.
Once we heal our wounds, the smile will be from the inside!

When we’re young, we don’t know the resources available to us that will help heal us. Many will hide pain behind jokes, seclusion, or throwing ourselves into work. We would rather focus and hide than deal with the root of our problem. Figuring if we smile, others will believe we are who we are pretending to be; a healed person.

Fake it until you make it, right? Wrong!

When we have lifelong wounds, we can’t cover them up and pretend they don’t exist. It is imperative for our mental well-being to put in the work it takes to make us whole.
I remember how I used to smile and make jokes, hoping to fool everyone around me. The desire to have people believe I was okay when I wasn’t was so important to me. My smile was a mask that hid the pain that ran through every inch of my body.

It’s okay not to be okay.

But it’s not okay to walk are as though you are and deny yourself the opportunity to feel absolute joy.

The older we become, the more we are aware that we deserve to take off that fake smile and fix whatever ales us. In adulthood, we become fully aware of how short life is and the importance of authenticity. Unfortunately, when we are teenagers and young adults, most of us can’t fully grasp that.

So today, let’s begin to remove that fake smile. Expose your wounds so they can heal with the fresh air hitting on them ever so delicately.
We all deserve to have a genuine smile and healed wounds.

You could have chosen any blog to read, but you chose mine, and I’m honored!

~Belladonna~

48 Replies to “One Line Is All I GOT”

  1. Thank you for sharing. Definitely something I am working on. By nature I am usually flashing a shining smile. But sometimes those of us that radiate the most vibrancy, often feel sad, and or alone. ❤️ progress not perfection.

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    1. That’s right, “progress not perfection”
      Hiding behind a smile makes me feel so saad when I’m alone. Which always let mee know that I needed to fix me. Thank so much for reading.

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  2. I seem to be thinking lately that I need to smile MORE, because I’m starting to see frown lines. Yikes! I don’t like that, but smiling more is the only solution I can think of, lol!

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  8. I usually think of a smile as something I give to someone else, a kindness, a invitation, a moment of seeing and acknowledging a fellow human. With children I automatically smile because I feel so accepted in their presence. As you say the smile can mask our true feeling, something to be aware of for sure. Hugs, C

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  12. These are very powerful words ❤️ I think sometimes it’s easier to hide behind the smile because you don’t want to burden others with your pain, but thanks for the reminder to stop hiding and figure out the root of the pain. Maybe we owe that to ourselves.

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  15. I find it hard to fake smile. I might have done it before when confronted with some unbalanced person acting unbalanced. When I smile it is for real or else I will not. Smile if you want and not if you don’t and feel nonetheless guilty about not smiling. It has taken me some time to learn this.

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  18. It’s so important to recognize and speak out truth, covering up and performing for the sake of doing so, or to hide from our pain, only causes more pain. Always great to read you, Belladonna! 💖

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