Today social media helped to reinforce something important after I posted a depressing and pessimistic status on Facebook.
I got blindsided by a punch to the heart earlier, and it sucked. For me, it helps a little to share how I am feeling, hence me sharing it there.
I thought about just deleting it, but changed my mind and instead am choosing to give a reminder:
Sometimes life hurts, and in that moment it seems like it’ll feel that way forever–even if logically you know better.
But, if you let yourself feel your pain and process it however you need to, the sooner you’ll get past it.
Today it just took an afternoon to feel ok again.
At my worst, it was a good 6 months of what felt like hopeless darkness and despair.
The same shitty thing still happened. It wasn’t a misunderstanding and nothing happened to somehow resolve the situation. I just let myself feel what I was feeling and worked through it the best I could instead of retaliating, stifling my feelings, or further victimizing myself.
You’ve probably felt that way before.
Maybe you are feeling that way right now.
Chances are it will happen again at sometime during your time here in the universe.
But remember:
Pain is temporary, and life gets better.