In our culture and society, we’re told to hold back expression of emotions.
Be it anything -
Don’t smile too wide. Don’t cry in public. Don’t hug anyone fully. Don’t hold hands. Don’t talk to people about how you feel.
Don’t feel at all, put your head down and work.
I guess this is good for the dance of capitalism - because emotions create variables that are often outside the direct control of a manager.
By collectively trying to ‘curb’ emotions, or ‘nerf’ them at least - companies try to remain in optimal working conditions.
But what we feel is different, we feel.
Everyday we wake up, and emotions are our constant companions.
I have come to think of them as chemical messages, they’re here to tell us something. Once we pick them up, feel them and process them, they go away.
By making it uncool to feel in our society, we’ve filled up our inboxes with 500+ unread messages, which often makes us feel overwhelmed and disconnected.
This time around, let’s let go of these bounds set by people who’re not even that happy in following the same bounds.
Let’s make it a point to feel each emotion fully.
To embrace the message our body sent us, only to soon enough let go of it.
To cry when we feel like it, and not hold back. To laugh fully with the widest smile that the world has seen. To hug people and love them endlessly. To hold hands, to jump around, to get excited about little things as if we were a kid doing them for the first time.
Being a kid, or thinking of what a kid would do is a good measure to understand how close we’re to ourselves.
Whenever now on you choose to express, reflect on how the ‘kid’ you would’ve done the same. If it’s similar, then great, you might feel much lighter. If it’s much distant from how the kid us would’ve approached this, then we might not feel that fulfilled, as if there’s still some weight on our chest, something we’re carrying, the filled inbox of emotions.
It’s only human to feel, let’s feel deeply and fully.
LOTS OF LOVEEEEEEEEEEEEE nmn.