08/27/2025
For years, I thought certain emotions were wrong.
Anger. Jealousy. Frustration. Hate. Envy.
The ones I thought were too dark… too messy… too shameful.
So I hid them. I shoved them deep inside, locked them away, and told myself: “If I just keep the peace, if I just stay perfect, if I just smile through it — maybe they’ll go away.”
But the truth is… it was breaking me.
Suppressing everything weighed me down like chains I couldn’t escape. I judged myself harshly. I carried guilt. I lived trapped inside a box I built out of fear of being “too much” or “not good enough.”
Something cracked open everything for me:
“These emotions aren’t wrong. They’re human.”
That moment shifted everything.
I realized it wasn’t about pretending I didn’t feel.
It was about giving myself permission to feel without judgment.
Because we are not perfect.
We are human.
And being human means feeling it all — the light and the dark.
Now I know:
When I feel anger, I don’t have to bury it.
When jealousy rises, I don’t have to shame myself.
When frustration shows up, I don’t have to silence it.
I can acknowledge it. I can sit with it. I can breathe through it.
And in that honesty… there’s freedom.
The weight starts to lift when you stop judging yourself for being human.
So, if you’re reading this and you’ve been hiding your emotions like I did — please hear this:
You don’t have to shove it all down anymore.
You don’t have to carry the shame.
You are allowed to feel.
Your emotions don’t make you weak.
They don’t make you broken.
They make you real.
And real is where the freedom begins.
If this resonates with you, share it with someone. Let’s remind each other: feeling isn’t failure — it’s being human.