Emotional or an Emotional Fool? We have all been taught to be kind, caring and gentle with people we meet and interact. As we grow, we learn that we need to ‘express’ our feelings/love and not let it remain in our hearts. We listen to these words quite often, grow up and sometimes end up putting it into practice.
But suddenly, the very words and very concept brings about a lot of pain. Why? Why does this happen? You learnt and therefore u went all out. You gave; it made you happy. It still makes you happy to see others happy. U carry on, till, one fine day, you are burnt out, over and empty! All the lessons you learnt about ‘giving’/ ‘expressing’ seems contradicting. They seem like good moral stories and that’s why you followed them in the first place.
Yes! The books in your earlier years did tell you to express your feelings! They did tell you to ‘give’, to ‘serve’ and to be ‘kind’ to others. Well, what the books did not tell you was…
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