Sadness is a strange beast. It can burrow in your heart and fill your lungs, suffocating you with thoughts that are tiring and painful and seemingly endless. It can sit on your shoulder like a melancholy parrot, whispering morose nothings in your ear.
Often, you can identify specific and concrete reasons that contribute to your sadness: a loved one has passed, or you've lost your job, or your relationship is on the brink of falling apart, or your best friend is moving away. If you're like me, though, sometimes you don't even really know why you're sad; your job is fine and your loved ones are nearby and the world seems to be doing (kinda) okay. But there's still a nagging, a pulling inside your chest that haunts you in a depressing sort of way.
Your sadness may feel very real and valid; on the contrary, your sadness might feel unnecessary and pointless. Whatever the reason for your sadness, it doesn't matter: what matters is that you're sad and that you're human and that it's okay to feel the way you're feeling.
When you feel sad, rather than becoming angry with yourself or falling into a pit of depression, try this:
Embrace your sadness.
Listen to sad songs. Draw sad artwork. Write sad poetry. Watch a sad film. Take a walk and revel in your feelings. Take a bath and revel in your feelings. Lay in bed and revel in your feelings.
Because, darling, you're human, and humans are meant to FEEL. You have to experience sadness in order for the happiness in your life to be meaningful, so love your sadness while you're feeling it, and then let it go when you're ready and live that big and brilliant, wild and precious life of yours, you beautiful beast you.
Embrace your sadness.
Listen to sad songs. Draw sad artwork. Write sad poetry. Watch a sad film. Take a walk and revel in your feelings. Take a bath and revel in your feelings. Lay in bed and revel in your feelings.
Because, darling, you're human, and humans are meant to FEEL. You have to experience sadness in order for the happiness in your life to be meaningful, so love your sadness while you're feeling it, and then let it go when you're ready and live that big and brilliant, wild and precious life of yours, you beautiful beast you.
I hope that today, you are not draped in sadness, but if you are, then wear that sadness like a gown and shed it when you're ready to don your suit of happiness. However you feel today, be kind to yourself--you're only human, after all, and perhaps the greatest gift of being human is to feel.
Love,
the Confetti Monster
xoxoxox
the Confetti Monster
xoxoxox