Sadness is interesting. Sometimes you hate it and sometimes you love it, but no one ever says it's okay to be sad. Here's a couple reasons why I think it's okay to be sad.
1. It's okay to be sad.
It is perfectly fine to be sad. I never really liked the idea of being sad, so I never really wanted to be sad. After I realized it makes you feel loads better (see number four) and it helps just take a load off, I am all for being sad. Sometimes you have to go through the shitty emotions like sadness to get to the raw real happiness that you want to achieve. Not everything is going to happen as you want it in life, and sometimes life kind of sucks. But, you learn to adapt to that and be sad sometimes - it'll help in the long run.
2. No one is going to judge you.
And if they do, who cares! I mean, who is going out of their way to judge you for being sad. It's an emotion, we all have emotions. Some more than others. If you cry all the time, then you cry and work that crying. You are who you are and no one can change that fact.
3. Sometimes you need a good cry.
Crying used to be such a pain. The headache that comes after, then you have to wipe your tears on something nearby (whatever that may be). Then everyone wants to text you when you are crying and you have to pretend you are fine, then cry some more. Pfft. No. Ignore everything and cry your eyes out. It will help so much with taking a load off. You don't need to keep it bottled up, crying is healthy and keep yourself healthy.
4. It will make you feel ten times better.
(See number 1,3, and 4). You will honestly bounce up and say "I feel so much better." Because you honestly will. You will feel like a new day has passed and you have so much to begrateful for and you do, there's so much positivity in the world.
5. Don't let it keep you inside, take a break.
Outside is your best friend. Outside by yourself. Don't take anyone with you. Don't ask your friends to come. Go to the nearest Target or Wal-Mart and just look around and breathe. Be around other people that you don't know for a minute. Go shopping even, buy a little something for yourself. Just go outside by yourself and learn to just breathe in fresh air and not that same sad and stressful air you have been breathing in the past three days. Trust me, it will help.
6. You will accidentally clean your entire room.
7. Music only gets sadder, when you are sad.
Listening to Brand New and Taking Back Sunday will only get sadder for you. If you thought they were sad when you were happy, trust me, they will only get sadder. You will be crying about someone that has a pretty face that you want to save. Listen to happy music, Disney soundtracks - even High School Musical. Dance around to the Cheetah Girls soundtrack. Take a load off.
8. You will probably make a really dope playlist. Keep that in mind.
The best playlist I have made has been in the past two days.
9. Poetry / writing will seem effortless.
10. It puts everything in perspective.
Being sad really makes you appreciate what you have and how you have it. How happy things are and how happy life can actually be. Nothing is too hard or too rough for you to do - you can take on anything, even the world.
