It seems impossible to me lately to sit down to write without discussing sadness, human fragility, or pain. I didn’t want to, I avoid it, but we let out what we feel, and I can’t escape reflections on painful feelings. I’ve never experienced such difficult times, never before has death been so present in everyday life and stamped on all sides.
I write to vent and to try to understand and digest everything that overwhelms me. My writing is my therapy, my salvation, the way I have to express myself and alleviate what doesn’t make me smile and what tears me apart.
I write to understand myself and so that this understanding of mine, when read by someone, can bring them a little hope too.
And hope comes because there is despair. Light is made when there is darkness. In other words, I overcome what hurts because it hurts, but it will pass. We have to have faith that it will pass, that everything will get better, that we will be very happy.
Instead of running away from sadness, I choose to accept it, understand it, and then fight against it. And we only fight when we stop running away. We only win if we can face what hurts. But that requires an absurd amount of courage.
Everyone clings to what gives them the most strength to face their afflictions and fears, in a safer way. Some people practice sports, some do crafts, some sing, some go to therapy, some paint pictures and walls. I write. Tinkling my piano helps a lot, but my writing is my strongest shield against this sadness that surrounds everyone’s life, especially today.
No one is doing very well, no one is without any kind of fear, no one is free from any worries. We are all daily warriors, surviving and seeking happiness, which should be everyone’s goal.
Emotional pain is the most difficult to alleviate, there is no medicine that can handle it. What we should do is try to get out of these heavy emotional spaces, filling ourselves with what makes us feel good.
Surround yourself with good people, cultivate healthy relationships, practice activities that give you pleasure, take some time to do nothing, say “I love you”, say “I love myself”.
Keep in your memories the most pleasurable moments of your life. Dance, sing, play an instrument, touch a skin, smile, laugh at silly things. That’s what will serve as medication in the moments when life says “no”, in the moments when it gets dark inside.
And never, ever, under any circumstances, stop believing in better days. They will come. I know it. And you, deep down, also know it. It’s just that we have this strange habit of having faith in life. Thank God.
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Some of us here write because its there hobby, some write because its there work, some write because they feel good while writing but some write to express there selves, writing is an emotion, we should know how to write. People write when no one listens to them, I have seen many people carrying a diary with them so that they can write where ever whenever they feel to write.