Friend - Advice for you

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Now I understand that you are battling with a lot of things, and these things, they keep happening, don't they? There's always something, always something to make you regret some of the things you do. Always something to make you feel unhappy.

Always something to bring you down. And while this is true, and it happens very often, there is something that I need you to understand, and I need you to understand it entirely. I need you to understand it, and I need you to embrace this truth.

It's okay to feel sad, it's alright to feel unhappy, it's okay to feel anxiety, stress, all of these things are inevitable, and they will happen, they will occur over and over again. However, there is a silver lining, and the silver lining is understanding that nothing lasts forever. It is a saying that is said so often, yet it is not appreciated.

You must understand that happiness won't last forever, joy will not last forever. All of these things, the good as well as the bad, will never last forever. Now, if you treat them the same, if you give them the power that they crave, they will have more power over you and they will control you.

What do I mean by this? What am I trying to say with this? If something makes you unhappy, and you let it make you unhappy more than it should, then you are giving it unnecessary power, you are giving it a place for it to grow.

You are making that a possibility, and that is no good. You see, you have a lot of power here. You have more power than you realize, you have the power over your mind, you do.

When they say contain your emotions, learn to control them, it does not mean for you to just place them deep inside of you and hold onto them, that is not what they mean. When they mean control your emotions, it means that if you are unhappy, cry, do it. If you feel sad, if you feel the urge to release tears, then do so.

But once you've done that, once you have properly released them, you haven't held them back, you have just let them all out. That is over, it has ended, it no longer has control over you. You controlled it, because you told it, so I feel sad, okay, then I'll let you out.

You're out, you have no business wanting more. The emotions that you have, they are not there to control you. They're an opportunity for you to control them properly, to process them properly.

But this is easier said than done. Practice makes perfect. You must learn to control your emotions, to control them in a healthy way.

Just because you don't cry and you hold back your tears does not make you strong, it does not. What makes you strong is realizing when you should let them out, and when you should move on after you've done so. It's recognizing your emotions, understanding them, getting to know yourself.

Because there is a very big problem going around, and it is that we, lots of us, all of us, do not understand what is wrong with us. We have no idea, and nobody teaches us how to properly deal with our emotions. We can't change the world if we're broken.

We have to learn to start with us. Then at least when you've started and you're trying and you're practicing, then you can start trying to change the world, trying to help other people. But it is hypocritical to do so without first starting with yourself.

So please, my friend, do so. You will be okay. You are enough.

You always have and you always will be. But just because you are enough does not mean that you've tried enough. Thank you.