Salt heals.
That’s why it hurts so much in an open wound.
Salt water heals wounds, reduces respiratory inflammation, fights infection, and strengthens your immune system. There is a running joke on how doctors once prescribed sea air for numerous ailments. We wouldn’t fight that advice today. I wish desperately to step off the treadmill of life.
Salt heals, and it is a raw kind of healing. The kind that asks you to be vulnerable.
Although adding salt to a wound is overkill, allowing a cut to be washed out by the sea might sting a little, and is necessary. My point is that hurting means facing a problem. The ocean reminds us that sometimes something needs to hurt before it can get better.
So few are brave enough to allow hurt. They don’t know that the hard thing and the right thing are often the same.
In this way, the ocean shows us the many ways we can be brave.
The sea's only gifts are harsh blows, and occasionally the chance to feel strong. Now I don't know much about the sea, but I do know that that's the way it is here. And I also know how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong. To measure yourself at least once.
― Jon Krakauer
"My point is that hurting means facing a problem" <<I could use a break from this.
Healing reading this is… beautiful.