Experience

“It’s okay to feel sadness; you need to feel sadness to know what happiness is.”

I had a conversation with my boyfriend a few weeks ago, and he said this line. Although not verbatim (as it was late at night and I can’t remember exactly what he said), you get the gist of it.

I read something similar in “Tuesdays with Morrie”. Morrie tells Mitch to experience every emotion to its fullest as it comes, then be able to detach yourself from it.

I’ve come to agree.

I found the greatest freedom when allowing myself, instead of swelling with pride and pushing my pains down, to cry, to scream and to think thoroughly about situations. I was then able to come out stronger, more able to move on.

When you recognize your [bad] emotions, and let yourself experience them fully, you feel better afterwards. You’re less confused, and dazed, but fully aware, and able to separate yourself from the experience. You’ll no longer have to dwell on it. And when better things come, you’ll be able to recognize them, and grasp them as fully.

And honestly, although just my personal opinion, I believe to experience life you need to experience your emotions fully. You need to learn about yourself, and your body. When learning about your body, and its behaviors and reactions, you can then take care of it fully, and live your life more fully.

I believe that through following this, you will be a more useful person in society. So as far as I’m concerned, experience away, and learn as much as you can about yourself, your behaviors, and your feelings.

Experience to the fullest to live to the fullest.