I tend to be a bubbly and positive-minded person, but lately a negative voice inside my head has been whispering to my soul that maybe I’m not doing enough, maybe I’m simply not enough.
Maybe I’m feeling a little down in the dumps these past few days. These feelings make me think, “ I allowed to feel this way…a little lonely, fearful, even though I’m a perfectly fortunate human being with plenty to be grateful for?
The answer, I’ve realized, is yes. Yes, I am allowed to feel the feels.
Whether you won the lottery this morning or have one measly penny in your bank account, life poses challenges every day, and maintaining optimism one hundred percent of the time…is well, simply impossible. Our happiness may be a rollercoaster ride no matter how wonderful our life is—and that's okay.
Sure, we should make the most of the cards we are dealt, but I also believe that it is healthy to allow ourselves to feel sadness. We can feel frustrated, angry…even outraged with the world! We can feel confused, out-of-place, like a fish out of water…and we are not required to explain ourselves to society.
It would not be human to be Little Miss happy-go-lucky with every lemon life throws us.
When I allow myself to feel, when I share my feelings with loved ones and when I wholeheartedly accept that I am a flawed human being, a world of connectedness opens. Because vulnerability drives the human connection.
No one has it all together, 100% of the time. Though it is wonderful to exhibit optimism when possible, allowing our-selves to feel pain and sorrow when necessary allows us to soak in our happiest of days with even more gratitude and love, and nurture our relationships with more truth.
So, have a good cry into your pillow, a scream, a wallow into a pint of ice cream while watching Soap Opera reruns. But, when you are through feeling the feels and being human, get out there and rock this world.
It sure needs you!
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