Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Sad Girls: My insight

Anxiety is a tricky thing, honey…

I got more insight as I finished reading Lang Leav’s Sad Girls. As a person who has experienced panic attack some times in her life, it had become more and more interesting to learn about human feelings. And this book got me thinking quite a lot about it.

I once read somewhere that, in fact, we tend to have the need to keep being exposed with something that triggers our emotion. Whatever it is, when our emotions are running high, we could act compulsively without knowing the effect.

I can relate to the explanation once when I kept checking on my twitter page (lol). Though there wasn’t so much to catch up with, I just kinda realized that it was the twitter / app itself that acts as the trigger, so I keep on running back to it. And it got me so anxious to think that I might miss something when I wasn’t around.

What I can understand, then, is to take care of ourselves first. It’s better to just log off from what’s tiring us, and focus and something else, like doing something that actually calms us down, whenever things feel overwhelming. I told about this problem to a friend, and he said, “twitter would still be there whenever you feel like coming back, so take your time and come back if you feel better.” I 100% agree.

It takes ultimate effort and time to finally be able to know what exactly is going on in your head and heart. And though I still have a lot of things to learn about human’s feelings and emotions, I best believe that we have to make peace with the light and the darkness, the calm and the chaos. We must accept who and what we are, then hopefully we can endure every struggle in order to achieve happiness.

You’re not a screw up. It’s about running your own race, honey.

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