Ant hole eaters if they know what’s good for them

Exactly. Sometimes you just need to feel stuff as it comes and not paint over it and slap a fake smile on top. That ignoring it and repressing it will make it 30x worse, trust me i tried. Now I embrace the lows along with the highs and I’m more joyful than I’ve ever been.

If someone gets shot in the leg five times , telling them to just ‘think positively’ is highly dismissive of the actual pain they are in. There’s a process to healing and it takes time. The worst thing you can do is rush that process.