If emotions scare you, read this.
The general perception in the world today is that showing emotion is a sign of weakness. Putting on our guard is safe because it doesn't make us vulnerable, or the weaker one.
It's true, but it's also very sad.
Firstly because if we're constantly on our guard, we're living half a life. Being out there and exposing your soul to people is scary, but it's also liberating, makes you lighter, freer.
"Our mission is to become the brightest and most pure-hearted of all, regardless of our circumstances, and to live a life where we can declare that we're supremely happy"
These words by my mentor Dr. Daisaku Ikeda always remind me to have my heart in the right place. The rest will take care of itself, I think to myself.
If you're the one who cries too much and laughs even more, then embrace your sensitivity. It's a gift, keep it, use it to help others. The only thing that we should worry about is the purity of our intentions. What factors are driving our actions? Asking ourselves this question will open a lot of closed doors and expose us to new things about ourselves, good and bad both.
It's better to feel a hundred emotions and overwhelm ourselves than to feel a handful and not have anything come out of it really. Shutting doors to our hearts closes us even further. Opening the doors of our lives in turn invites new adventures, new people, new opportunities and a fresh perspective.
We all need to refresh ourselves from time to time.
So next time if you see someone sitting alone, tell that hesitant little voice in your head to keep 'shhhhh' and go and say hello. You never know how that encounter might help both of you, and what you may learn.
If you've been hurt, lay low and feel the pain, because a very famous author once said, "pain demands to be felt".
The Gosho states, "Suffer what there is to suffer, enjoy what there is to enjoy. Regard both suffering and joy as facts of life and continue to chant Nam Myoho Renge Kyo, no matter what happens."
Regarding both suffering and joy as mere facts is a challenge but a challenge worth our time. Nothing is permanent, so be really grateful if things are flowing smoothly for you, and hopeful, yet grateful, if they aren't, for it could be worse.
Crush fear with the same heal that you use to advance forward in the direction of happiness, with confidence. Replace it with hope, determination and action, and use that as a base to construct your dreams into reality!
After going a full 360 degrees, my point is that if you stop feeling things, you shut your life to the infinite possibilities that lay in store for you. So take off that mask that you use to hide from the world and smell the fresh cold wintry air.
Make sure to wear nice boots though ;)
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