: : dedicated to t. a. n.
You don’t need to offer anyone an apology for not being okay. You don’t need anyone’s permission for showing, owning, and honoring your feelings, no matter how far-from-okay those feelings actually are.
Don’t ever feel guilty for not being able to fake a smile when everyone’s dancing and laughing some evenings, and don’t ever feel ashamed for not being able to lift the veil of sadness from some of your heavy mornings. It’s okay to not be okay.
You don’t have to repress your feelings to please others, nor push away your sadness to comfort others. You have the right to feel whatever it is that you feel; to talk about it and to try to understand it in all honesty, unapologetically. You have the right to not be okay.
Release the tension from not being able to bounce back so easily and drop the pressure from not being able to snap yourself ‘out-of-it‘ so quickly–you know you would if you could. You are allowed to be sad; to cry your eyes out when you feel like it. You are allowed to be vulnerable; to reach out when you feel like it. You are not a failure just because you allow yourself to feel what you feel.
You are just being human.
And it is okay to not be okay all the time.
11 Responses
Hi Hani,
Are you okay? hehehe….
Indeed, a good insight and to me personally, I sometimes shows my feelings especially when there is someone that annoyed me. 😀
Please allow me to share this post.
Cheers!
Hahaha, I’m okay! 😀 Feel free to share; and thanks for dropping by! 🙂
so, it’s okay then, Thanks Mbak 🙂
It is! 🙂 *hugs*
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Sometimes it is okay to Not be OKAY!
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I understand.
:))
Xx
Hi, Hanny. Thanks to remind me that I’m allowed to be human that doesn’t make me less human than I was before. 🙂
Typo… *Love this post!!!