You must allow yourself to feel
Everything
To the extreme
Relish in your triumphs,
Feel the joy as it travels to your core
Push pain to its limits,
fall apart if you must
Allow wonder to consume your mind,
Let it drift off to uninhabited places with no constraints
Let fear plant butterflies in your chest
And let it pump adrenaline through your veins
Squeeze everything you can get out of love,
Search for it in the most desolate places and when you find it, allow it to break down those cautionary walls you keep building around yourself
Allow yourself to hurt and grieve and cry and scream and smile and laugh and grow and learn
Feel things as they are meant to be felt
And then some
There is power in the depth of your emotions
So let them be deep
Let them be raw and real
Let them express themselves the way they are dying to be expressed
Grasp these feelings by the palms of your shaky hands and hold on to them for as long as you must
And then release them
So you are free to start again