It’s Good To Feel This Way. Feel It, Let Yourself Drown For Just A Moment - Know That You Can Still

It’s good to feel this way. Feel it, let yourself drown for just a moment - know that you can still swim. Let yourself suffer, it’s what makes us human. Feel that pain and let yourself respond, you’re not stuck in it forever.

Life goes so fast, it’s so easy to skip the bad parts with distractions or pretend, those moments build you. Be built, become more, become new.

I let myself drown all throughout my teens, and once I was ready I swam. I let myself build strength, I still can’t be sure where I’m headed in life, I don’t think anyone is ever sure where they’re going, but the longer you swim the closer you get to knowing.

Write down the hurt and confusion, and then write down all the dreams you have. Even the embarrassing, far from reach, near impossible dreams. Let yourself hope, be youthful and confused and sad. BE YOUNG. Life doesn’t end in the confusion, growth starts, so let yourself grow in weird and unpredictable ways. Let your vines wrap around your neck once or twice so that they can get far enough to reach the next day.

Just don’t give up on yourself, there is always another chance. So for now you’re going to drown, and maybe for a while longer you will, but before you know it you’ll reach the surface and the tide will give you a head start, and you’ll swim.

Tw angsty teenage feelings

Is it okay to feel lost? To feel like every time I'm not outright miserable, I'm playing pretend? I worry that I'm wasting my late teens but is feeling lost and being in no set direction part of it? I honestly don't know, I've never had role models and my position is very unique. I feel less like a person and more like a drowned body being pulled and tugged by indecisive waves. Am I fucking it up? I guess we'll see