Ishika Malik Harekal • ♾️ by I

Every single person you know has a part of themselves where they have been broken and they feel embarrassed, ashamed, guilty

Tears have streamed incessantly down their face

They have felt sick to their gut

They have felt helpless and like how they were feeling will never end

I know this, because I’ve felt like this

Not a few times, but more times than I can count

I experience joy, bliss, gratitude, peace. I feel full of strength and power. Of courage. I feel like I am invincible.

And yet, there are days, that I can feel this low

This is the depth and range of being a human

If you feel this way, you aren’t alone. No matter how put together someone is, or how much they’ve ’achieved’ in their life, they have days like this too.

Some might choose to not feel it, or numb themselves, and then it will stay stuck & unprocessed

But it’s still there, under the surface

Let it out. Give it its due. Feel it all.

And know that you are larger than it. It will pass. It’s a traveller, just passing through.

Be a gracious host.

For once it leaves, you’ll be surprised at the gift it left behind.

You now feel happiness, power, peace more deeply than you did before. You feel compassion for another more deeply. You are stretched.

You can never go back.

You hold more.

More tranquility. More patience. More gratitude. More depth. More love. More creativity.

You are alive.