Are you having a hard time?
It’s easy to push your feelings to the side by telling yourself to keep pushing, to not rest or sort out the way you clearly feel.
You expend all of your energy and get drained, and the results of your efforts are sometimes perceptible and sometimes not.
It’s unlikely that you don’t care about yourself; you just have to give it your best, since that’s what you want and what’s expected of you.
But, you are having a hard time, aren’t you? And you keep acting like everything is fine, and you are okay.
Occasionally, it isn’t always the labour or effort that is required of us. At times, it can be anything else. Relatives or friends misbehaving, plans going awry, legal issues, dissatisfactions, surprises, and a multitude of other problems.
So, you are having a hard time, and it doesn’t feel great or manageable at all. You are burnt out, tired, and you just want something or anything to make sense.
It’s alright to let yourself feel that way, to let your friends or anyone who cares to know or listen know that it’s not alright.
Hard times will come, and it’s so much better to not experience it all by yourself. Reach out to that person you know will hear you out, take a break from figuring it all out and rest for a while, heck, if it’s possible for someone else to handle those things for you, let them.
Pray about it. Sing about it. Write about it. Draw or paint about it. Don’t run away from it or ignore it. Express how you feel because, even if it doesn’t change anything, it makes you feel relieved when you embrace it, and there is sometimes clarity in mediating and sharing.
‘Tough times never last, but tough people do’ — Robert H. Schuller
Be the toughest person that you know.
Stay safe, stay strong, stay expressive.
