2017 is officially over! While we’ve gone through the good and the bad last year, we have to brace ourselves for the new year. But what never changes over these years? Let me tell you.

This generation is terrified of expressing how they feel because they don’t want to seem “clingy” or they don’t want to seem “into" someone. We don’t speak up about how we feel and are often left wondering and driving ourselves up the wall (you know exactly what I’m talking about).

Why are we so afraid to tell someone how we feel? Why are we afraid to ask the questions that are making us crazy? We’re left making passive remarks and beating around the bush, and for what? To play these games? Cut it out.

Just say it.

Honestly, let’s be real: what’s the worst that can happen? You don’t get the answer you were hoping for? They don’t respond? Youprobably already assumed it would happen before you got the guts to say anything. So what.

More often than not, you will feel so much better getting whatever is on your chest off of it. You will be able to breathe again. So what if you’re vulnerable for a hot minute, isn’t that better than being left wondering? If you keep those feelings bottled up, you’re bound to snap one day and could take it out on the wrong people.

There is nothing you need to feel embarrassed by or ashamed of. Your feelings matter and it’s time to claim them.

Go ahead, tell that guy you’re into him. Tell your friends you feel left out. Tell your coworkers you need a break from work. Ask to define the relationship. Make it a resolution to speak up about how you feel.