Have you ever felt that overpowering, suffocating feeling where everything is just quite right, yet you feel something amiss? Some call it ‘sadness’, some term it ‘depression’, and some name it whatever they feel like. But you know what the issue is? Not addressing the issue.
When you have a lot of things bottled up inside you, everything gets so terribly jumbled up, that you fail to differentiate between your own problems. There are a million thoughts, a billion emotions, all jarred up so tightly, that they could just explode, even if you tried to address one of them.
Do you know why this happens? Because in the desperate need to lock everything away, we lock up ourselves inside us. We cage ourselves inside us. In the process of doing so, we think that ‘things’ would subside on their own, but that’s not how it works. On the contrary, all those ’emotions’, which I call ‘things’, become so vulnerable that the slightest trigger could shatter everything. And trust me, that outburst can be really dangerous.
This happens because we don’t talk. By talking, I mean talking about our feelings, our emotions, our internal battles. Don’t talk for the sake of talking, talk to understand and explain yourself. Else, you’ll only get further agitated, and no one will ever know what’s up with you.
Above all, have you ever thought why we don’t talk? Because we think, or somewhere believe, that nobody would listen, nobody would understand. And even if they do listen, they would probably laugh it off. But you know what, they understand, they listen carefully, you know why, because they care. You just need to confide in the right person. Choose your people wisely. Sometimes they are friends, sometimes they are family, and sometimes they are strangers. There might be times when they could be busy. But that’s fine. Eventually, things fall into place and you find that solace.
Just take a deep breath and talk to someone. If you don’t have a confidante then talk to yourself. Just remember to make words out of your thoughts. It is always important to give shape to your ideas in order to understand them. It brings clarity. Try to get out of the cage inside you. You will find peace, if not outside then within.