P R O T E C T I O N(11)

 P R O T E C T I O N 

A coat from cold weather. A shield from something. Someone jumping in front of you right before something could hurt you. Everyone protects something. It doesn’t have to be big or small, but protection comes from everywhere. 

It doesn’t have to be something real. It doesn’t have to be something that is right in front of you either. Protection can mean something as small as a car airbag being deployed. Or, it can be as big as someone putting themselves in harm's way so you don’t get hurt. It could mean protecting the rest of yourself from what it is on the inside. Something worth protecting, means keep it safe before it can be hurt again. 

Although sometimes protection might seem harmful than helpful. It could mean pushing people away to make sure you aren’t going to be hurt. You can’t predict if something is going to hurt you though. Protection can only work so far. It sometimes means in order to be protected, you have to be hurt along the way. 

Protection, to me, means when someone doesn’t want to see you hurt. It means that they could think they are saving you from something you can’t see. Protecting yourself could be harder to figure out though. Some people believe they don’t need to be protected. Others, only see protection as something they can’t live without because they have been protected too much. 

People build walls sometimes to keep others out. It might seem like that at first, but those walls protect what is left within themselves.

-JS