It’s that time of the year again, the holiday season has started. Thanksgiving is coming soon and before you know it Christmas will be here. I don’t know if it ever the same for you, but whenever this time of the year starts I think of these things: reflection, thankfulness, and forgiveness.

To have these things, to move on towards the start of a new year, we have to acknowledge both our present and past. We must acknowledge our wounds, which reminds me of an old phrase: time heals all wounds.

That is the saying, right? Time heals all wounds or maybe it should be love. Yes, love. I think that love is really what’s in the background of this phrase.

In retrospect, maybe love and time are the same exact thing. That we can switch one out for the other. Maybe this is what is truly meant to be thought of when we speak the word “time”. Because isn’t that what we are supposed to do over time? Love?

Making ourselves vulnerable yet again? Taking a risk to love?

Just like carpe diem, taking the time to love could also be our own type of “seize the day”. That we are risking time to show our love. Risking time to heal and live our lives. Put it together and you might have this beautiful picture. Or maybe it’s still a messy life, with a worn frame and you have to get a broom and clean it up again, but…don't forget that dustpan.

Time? Does time heal all wounds? It rolls off the tongue so flawlessly. So sophisticatedly. This phrase is said without thought and I think that there needs to be a change in perspective. Love heals all wounds which as in just as many words is a more appropriate alternative to the old adage “time heals all wounds”.

So yes, love heals all wounds. Because love is the most powerful thing that we can truly do as human beings. It’s powerful because when we truly love it is unconditional and can truly conquer our hurt. That we can take the scales off our eyes and stitch up the wounds of the past. Because with time and love only then will we truly heal.