I was listening to Dido's song "life for rent" and I really liked the lyrics. The part that got me thinking was this
While my heart is a shield and I won't let it down
While I am so afraid to fail so I won't even try
Well how can I say I'm alive
How far does this apply to you? I mean, do you open your heart and live life at its fullest while risking hurt and heartbreak, or do you shut it against life to protect yourself?
2007-11-22 21:10:45 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
I can really relate to those lyrics to my life before I came to Egypt,fell in love and am in the process of living happy ever after,inashAllah.
Back then my heart was a total shield,4 inches of thick,bullet proof glass that could have with stood an attack by an automatic at close range and not even chip.
It really took a long while for me just to want to relearn how to let that sheild down. Then I had to learn that I could not only let it down but to feel comfortable about doing it.
It took a long time for me to be sure that I could not only live without my sheild but I could now give love and accept love too.
I really am so lucky and blessed that I found someone who somehow understood and was prepared to just be patient and let me relearn to live and to love at my own pace.
I don't even know were that old sheild is anymore but I know it is long past its use by date.
I am always amazed just how much the lyrics and music of a song can be so strongly associated with a person,a time or a place and as soon as we hear them even if it is years afterwards,zap our mind if full of memories.
That is the magic of music!
2007-11-23 20:54:52 · answer #1 · answered by sistablu...Maat 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A lot of that applies to me, in this life you have to protect yourself.
I have been through a lot of stuff so from what I have been through I taught my self to not to get to close to anyone so I don't get hurt.
When someoen says they are going to do something I doubt them so that way if it don't happen I don't get hurt. People these days hurt you not always intentionaly but me I don't like to get to close to people i'm really quiet with people sometimes until Im comfortable.
The only ones that I let in are Allah and my husband it just depends on who really cares enough to try to gain my trust and for me to open my heart to them!
2007-11-23 23:27:41 · answer #2 · answered by FeshFash 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yes i do get hurt and heart breaks but every time this happens i slow down to find out what happenned then i realise that it was my mistake to have expected where else should have done it without expectation and that is why i was hurt.
So i resolve not to have expectation and go out again to live my life to the fullest without fear of getting hurt, cause that is the beauty of life.
I must keep on running the race is still not over for me
2007-11-23 13:17:34 · answer #3 · answered by Raj 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I open the door and hold a shield not to be hurt. This is the general rule, however, sometimes I live to the fullest, this happens with some people
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2007-11-23 06:54:48 · answer #4 · answered by Green visitor is back :D 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I LIVE LIFE FREELY with an OPEN and WILD heart.
I believe in love and belief more-so than anything else, and wouldn't dare block the flow of blood through my veins, or love through my heart.
Naturally, I have experienced feelings of death, along with the desire to introvert my feelings in situations of hurt and fear, but the solution has always been love itself.
2007-11-23 05:17:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
My heart is always open that is why people walk all over me but I couldn't shut it.
2007-11-23 09:00:37 · answer #6 · answered by Little One 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
mine is opening...
try to smile, right now...see how long it takes you to make a genuine heart felt smile.
the rush and flow of emotion the heart is responsible for is your best defense against heart break, true heart break.
2007-11-23 05:19:30 · answer #7 · answered by PRinCEss_PLeaSE 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Open my heart and got hurt, but its still wide open
The door is broken
2007-11-23 05:16:08 · answer #8 · answered by Hornet One 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To the ones in my life ... my heart, is to do with, whatever they choose .. for they hold it in the palm of their hands - and they know it. I give it freely.
2007-11-23 15:08:28 · answer #9 · answered by Tara 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i have opened my heart before, so opened that it hurts! and it hit me real bad!!!
now, i don't open anymore as much as before. when i open it, i make sure, there's enough room left for myself, wider than what i can share with others.
is that being selfish???
2007-11-23 05:32:09 · answer #10 · answered by ericka 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋