on feeling

In an increasingly empirically-focused life, perhaps we should allow ourselves to feel a little more.


Feel frustration.
Feel peace.
Feel anger.
Feel heartbreak.
Feel love.
Feel depression.
Feel joy.

Because without feeling we are numb...numb to experience, numb to growth, and numb to the human experience. We'll get to a point where the rug we keep sweeping our feelings under becomes a mountain in front of us.

“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.”

-Tuesdays with Morrie, by Mitch Albom


(Thank you to my dearest friend, Amanda, for reminding me not to fear feeling.)