Scars Character or battle scars?

[LaneyDoll]

I typically do not keep scars. I have one on the inside of my left ring finger. I managed to get that mark this pas tJanuary when I was sick with the flu. Boiling hot soup + vertigo = third degree burn. It is fading so unless I show you the line, you may not notice it.

I have a bikini line scar from 3 C-sections and a hysterectomy. My OB-GYN closed me internally with steri-strips so this scar is flush with the skin and barely discolored. It is very sensitive though.

I also have a few intended scars from the artistic cuttings I have had done in the last year and a half.

BUT, since I do not keep scars, two are faded to the point you cannot see them-maybe if I point them out. I have one, a butterfly, that has been cut three time-most recently in March and it is fading. The most recent, a vine with a rose, was done in June so it is still clearly visible. However, she cut deeper with the vine/rose and went over it more times than she did with the butterfly.

[little_ms_sunshyne]

I was just talking to T about this, this morning...

I have scars that I hate. One is an appendectomy scar and the other from cysts that I had. They make me insecure. But T says they tell about me...
I am working on being ok with them...Wish I didnt scar so easy

[Blaze]

Okay, now I'm adding the Fire Ant scars on my feet and legs, these I call Battle scars because they sure hurt and on some of them even when I tried to pull them off, their head broke off! Ouchhhhhhh This year their out with a vengeance and no matter how hard you try to get rid of them, they just move! From one side of the house to the other, from one yard and back.

[LadyRieinAL]

*right heel - at three I was riding on the back of a bicycle, got my barefoot caught in the spokes, broke my little leg in three places, and almost completely severed my heel
*left eye, at 5, fell out of car
*Chicken Pox vaccination
*hand - using a sharp object to cut out a design on a piece of rubber - slit the skin area between thumb and pointer finger - didn't bleed that much, and it looked rather oddly cool to see the muscle below the slash.
*right foot - walking to the pool, barefoot, stepped on a broken coke bottle, felt it stick, but didn't look down, tried to kick it off, and jabbed it into the ground and my foot.
Now, the only place I DON'T wear shoes is in my own shower.
*hand - many years ago, Hardee's gave out free Looney Tune glasses, one night while washing my favorite Tweetie glass, it popped open and sliced the inside of my hand.
*stomach - c-section - they opened me up and gifted me with a beautiful baby daughter
*lower back - blown disc - working out, tried to push too many pounds with my thighs
*Neck - Hit from behind in my car had to have surgery to correct blown disc -

[girl_dee]

not all scars are external and some of those are often a grim reminder of dark days. Whatever the case they are part of us.

[clay]

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[starryeyes]

I have a scar going across the bridge of my nose from a cat that scratched me!

I have three scars on my left knee from knee surgery

I have a scar on my left knuckle from a speed shaving incident, lol. Don't know how it happened but it bleed for like 2 days, lol.

I have another scar of my left hand from touching the top of the toaster oven

That's about it! :-)

[Miss Scarlett]

Originally Posted by Cajun_dee

not all scars are external and some of those are often a grim reminder of dark days. Whatever the case they are part of us.

True...i certainly have my share of inner scars...many from really ugly, trauma...but you know what? If i were ever offered the chance i would never trade or erase any because they made me who i am...especially the ones that crushed me, tried to break me or nearly killed me.

It isn't easy but i turned them around - my own type of scar revision if you will...i forgave and, in some cases, continue to forgive. I brought that darkness out into the light and, with loving intent, use it for good...to help people and in my life in general for it's from that deep well where i draw my inner strength...

[ArkansasPiscesGrrl]

Originally Posted by Miss Scarlett

True...i certainly have my share of inner scars...many from really ugly, trauma...but you know what? If i were ever offered the chance i would never trade or erase any because they made me who i am...especially the ones that crushed me, tried to break me or nearly killed me.

It isn't easy but i turned them around - my own type of scar revision if you will...i forgave and, in some cases, continue to forgive. I brought that darkness out into the light and, with loving intent, use it for good...to help people and in my life in general for it's from that deep well where i draw my inner strength...

Thanks, Miss Scarlett, that was put beautifully.

There is a sentence in my recovery that promises me that, if I do the work that I need to, "I will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it".

That promise has come true for me. And for my own internal scars.