Shining Thru

Why does it take so much to let your feelings show through?  Why is it so hard to accept what you are feeling and let it be?  Why do we condemn some feelings while insisting on others?  Why do we expect everyone to feel the same in situations? 

I think feelings are thoughts that our brain hasn’t recognized, or maybe your brain has recognized it and that’s why you are pulling back and not allowing your feelings to show….Our society is so strange about feelings, half the time they’re telling you to always express how you feel and to be yourself…and then the rest of the time they are making a mockery out of you because you are not feeling the way they think you should be.  I think it’s strange that we live in a place where it’s a big deal to let your emotions show through….As far as I know we all feel things, we all experience different emotions….but yet it’s a big deal to actually let other people see those feelings and emotions go through you.  I don’t understand why it’s wrong just because it’s different…how can what you feel be wrong?  It just is….

Feelings are not things that you make blue prints for or practice in preschool…they simply are apart of being alive…we were all designed to have them, and yet it seems that most of us spend most of the day fighting what we are feeling…granted you have to keep yourself under control, but why deny the feelings that you are experiencing?  Why not just embrace them and help others to embrace theirs as well as deal with them?

I think that a lot of problems that our youth has is because we have taught them that certain feelings are plain wrong and wont talk to them about it or even acknowledge that they exist in some instances…Instead we should be telling them that it’s just a part of life and try to help them find a constructive way to accept and deal with their emotions. 

It seems to me like the few people who will accept any emotion from a person always want an explanation…well, what if you can’t give one?  What if the feelings are just simply there and you don’t know why, you don’t even really want to think about why….Heaven forbid if you experience more than one emotion at a time…when you find yourself in that crossway where you want to be happy because good things are happening, but something else happened that’s holding you back.  Or the opposite can be true too, you’re really angry, frustrated, or sad, but you really want to be happy because you know that good things are happening around you or maybe to someone who you are close to. 

The bottom line is, I wish that we could just be free to be ourselves in our society and be accepted for that; sadly, I’m not sure that will ever happen….