I don't know exactly what I am feeling

This is a post about acceptance.

I have always been a person who would not want to accept emotions other than happiness. I was always striving to be happy... which is good, but not obtainable. Life is NOT going to be blissful every second of the day.

My cousin texted me something that stuck with me " Happiness is the art of self delusion." At first I was thrown off by this text but the more I thought about it the more I agreed. I needed to hear that.

It is okay...

to be sad.
to not be put together all the time.
to be lonely.
to feel lost.
to feel vulnerable.
to feel depressed.
to feel stuck in limbo.

These are all natural feelings. I am learning to accept everything that I feel, and give myself time to really feel it-- even if its an emotion that makes you feel bad. Most of the time we learn the most from the hard things. The things that feel like we will not get through...  the things that break us.

Know that it is all okay. Life is a evolving thing. Some things will be great, some things will be terrible, and we are meant to feel and live it all.

allow yourself to grow, allow yourself to feel.

That is the beauty of it all. How complex we are, and how different.