I feel a lot.
Everything that happens to me affects me very deeply, and that’s a good thing.
Although I must say, when I’m bitterly sad over something frivolous, which I am quite a bit, it doesn’t feel okay. It feels pretty unfortunate. And yet I think about it, and I feel it as deeply as I can, and then I let the moment pass and I never have to feel it again. When you allow yourself to feel things as they’re happening instead of suppressing your deep, profound emotions, you are no longer enslaved by them and can begin again with a blank slate and start the cycle over of being affected by whatever else occurs.
This concept is not mine, and it is not new. In my favorite book, "Tuesdays With Morrie ," Morrie, the author’s former and late philosophy professor, says to him, “If you hold back on the emotions — if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them — you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely.” The lesson in this changed my life. I used to think that something was wrong with me, that I was too sensitive, and that I cried too much, but there is no such thing as oversensitivity. Maybe sometimes the way you feel is hiked by your mental state, but when you develop emotional articulation and the ability to discern why you feel the way you do, you can separate the important emotions from the unimportant ones. (A good way to discern is if you can watch your favorite show or take a hot shower and feel better, it’s probably not that serious.) Once you can do this, you realize that the way you feel is not without reason; the important emotions, the ones worth feeling, are trying to tell you something. It is imperative that you listen.
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So, whether it’s sentimentality, or anger, or unconditional love, pay attention to the way you feel. Otherwise, you could miss a very important message from your mind.
On a final note, as Morrie says, “Accept who you are; and revel in it.”
