07/02/2024
“Sometimes you pretend to be okay. Sometimes you fake a smile. Sometimes you act completely put together on the outside with hopes that it will somehow cancel out the mess you feel on the inside. Sometimes, you bury the unwanted feelings, the sadness you can’t explain — not because you want to fool yourself into thinking that you’re happy, but to be less of a burden on everyone else. However, sometimes the unwanted feelings shouldn’t be buried. Sometimes they need to be aired out like dirty laundry. Sometimes those sad feelings just need to be felt hell, sometimes feeling them needs to be celebrated. Because feeling sad isn’t anything to be ashamed of. Crying doesn’t make you weak, and continuing to cry all night doesn’t either. However your sadness manifests itself, it doesn’t lessen your strength, your independence, your capability, it doesn’t take away from who you really are. Your sadness makes you human. Your struggles make you human, and everyone has them. So for once just allow the struggles to exist, to be exactly what they are.
