Chit Chat

Let's face it, some days are rough. Sometimes you have days where you don't feel quite right from the moment you wake up and despite trying your hardest you just cannot shake it.

I had a day like this last week. I spent the entire day feeling completely defeated with an intense feeling of sadness and frustration without being able to pinpoint exactly where these feelings were coming from but I did know I was overwhelmed, I didn't feel like myself, and I couldn't seem to pull myself together.

Once the day was winding down I found myself a spot and cried. I am not talking about a cry like I have when I shed a couple tears after seeing those incredibly sad commercials with the adorable cats and dogs needing someone to take care of them. I am talking about a red faced, puffy eyes, tears streaming down my face kind of cry. The tears came out of nowhere. Maybe they came simply because I didn't know what else to do. You know what? It felt good. It felt like a release of all of these pent-up emotions and after I wiped the tears away although I didn't feel completely better I was more relaxed and somewhat relieved.

In my book there is a lot to be said for sitting down and having a good cry every once in a while. We live in a society that is always urging us to be happy and telling us to get over it. While I do agree that we need to get over it when something sad happens or when things do not go our way I do not think it should come at the expense of us first working through our grief and disappointment.

Crying can have a powerful role in healing. It can help us clear out our emotions and established a more balanced perspective at where we are and what possibilities we have. It allows us to refocus and release tension. Sometimes I just need to cry. We are allowed to have bad days or even weeks and we are allowed to have a good cry to help us get through them.

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