What to do when sadness strikes.

I was raised to hide my feelings if they were anything but happiness. Being sad and feeling alone was a bad thing. I felt crazy if I ever felt sad or lonely. As I got older I stopped acting like everything was fine when they weren’t. I learned not to feel bad when I experience different emotions. I finally learned what my mother was maybe trying to teach me. That it’s okay to experience different emotions because we all do. It’s okay for life to suck sometimes and to state that. It’s okay for life to knock you down sometimes. Life will knock you down sometimes, but what’s not okay is staying down.