Vul-ner-ability

It is vulnerable to release what you deeply care about and hold dear into the world. It becomes exposed to the scrutiny, ridicule and tarnishing of others. What is so close to you all of the sudden can now be broken. This is the case for art (music and poetics included), writings, research and findings; it is even painfully true about children. Brené Brown says, “trust is making something important to you vulnerable to the actions of someone else”. This can feel like a willful begging for suffocation, like our breath of life is being ruthlessly stripped away at the exact moment what we love leaves our grip. If I leave the worth of my ____ up to the acceptance and opinion of man, I will in fact receive a deafening blow. My armor cannot be so thick as to be unaffected, otherwise I would be void of the ability to care for anything in the first place. Trust. The only Other that can take what I hold dear and care about it more than I ever could, to also release me in the same moment I learn to release. The only way to truly expose the rootedness and truth of worth which is beyond the brokenness and the tarnishing that this world is guaranteed to cause. There is an armor that has never known a losing battle, but it is not mine to craft. It is ours to open our grip for, as we release. 

Vulnerability does not promise safety, yet it is requisite for growth.

When are you allowing yourself to be vulnerable? In what area are you not allowing space for vulnerability? Are other people able to be vulnerable when in your presence?