This beautiful young woman told me that she was addicted to how other people saw her. This was after hours of me trying to point out that formspring was a stupid waste of time. This girl was being harassed by an anonymous classmate. This girl is a wonderful person, a baby christian, just learning about the life she could have in Christ. Yet she broke my heart, and God's heart I'm sure, when she refused to give up the so called "constructive criticism" she received from formspring. I'd looked at the comments before and they were vicious. This girl had every reason to delete them and forget the nasty and untrue words. Yet, she clung tight to them and refused to let herself be free. This made me think of all the things we cling to, for instance I have a friend or two that cling to a boy. I myself, because I'm so 'mature' and 'above dating' just cling to the idea of my ideal man. Yes, I cling to the idea of an ideal person. That's radiculous. Others cling to a sport of a hobby, and it becomes their whole life. Sometimes I cling to myself, because I'm so afraid everything else will let me down.
What we dont realize is that those things that we cling to, they have grabbed ahold of us. Now we exist as slaves to them. Not only slaves, but voluntary slaves. When we could simply let go and be free, we hold on with all are might so that we may live another day to serve the masters we created for ourselves. We are trapt. And there is something we can do about it. The girl,who I love love love, and that is mentioned above; I want her to be free so badly. I know that I myself am trapt. And that I am terrified to let go. I don't want that for her. I don't want that for me, or you, either. But especially not for her. She should be free. We all should.