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These last weeks I have understood more than ever the importance of getting rid of excesses, before I told you about my habit of buying or keeping "just in case" but today I want to talk to you about keeping a lot of things, but inside us, yes, I mean in an emotional sense and how doing so can cause us damages that can endanger our lives.
I have been sad and worried these days, trying to keep an optimistic mind, but this time someone I love with all my being, is going through a complicated situation that maybe I will tell you about later. My loved one, is suffering the consequences of excessive worry and unspoken words. Sometimes we do not give importance to this kind of things, but when we see the damage caused, we learn the hard way that repressed emotions or words that we keep to ourselves, can gradually fill us up inside, until we explode at any moment.
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Stress, anxiety and depression sometimes come into our lives when we fall prey to our emotions for too long. Sometimes, we were taught since we were little not to express our feelings and instead to act strong, many of us were taught that no one should see us vulnerable and we create a shell while inside we feel a lot, a very complicated way of living and that sometimes fills us with frustration.
Fortunately, we can change the habits that cause us harm, leave them aside and instead adopt habits that contribute to our physical, mental and spiritual health. Not saying what we feel can be very harmful, around us there are many people struggling with emotional disorders and also serious physical illnesses, for never learning to express themselves.
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My loved one, since he was a child was raised in this way "men do not cry" as if men did not feel, since he was a child he was taught to repress what he felt and then it was very difficult to learn the opposite or get it out of his heart. This way of thinking forced him to close himself emotionally and to keep silent when he pain visits his soul, many times I told him to speak, to express himself, but it is not something that can be learned overnight.
Self imposed emotional burdens are very common and many of us have had them, but these weeks I saw how these burdens affected the heart of my loved one and also his head, I have been dealing with these things these days with my family, thinking and reflecting on the evil that causes us to complicate our life more, inhibiting us to feel. Having a simple life is also learning to let out what is inside, after all what is inside of us can also be filled with things like a house, it is necessary to clean and get rid of what we do not need.
It is important that we live with simplicity both outside and inside, there are many evils that we will avoid if we do so.