In A Cold World, Keep Yourself Warm by Enyjé Sandoz
The world is (seemingly) so mean and callous because the masses want to walk around cold and emotionally detached under the guise of self-protection and self-preservation. To acknowledge emotions has come to be deemed weak, a means of absolving behavior, but emotions are not why something has happened; they are a response to it. We are human—not robots or non-living creatures, we are meant to feel: the good, the painful, the uncomfortable, and the calm. Everyone wants to walk around as if they are immune to emotions, when really, their emotions are just festering inside of them like toxic waste. The continuation suppression and repression of emotions is inwardly volatile due to the lack of expression; as a result, it starts eating away at them. First, with their empathy. If they cannot stand their own emotions, how can they consider another’s? Then, it eats away at their perception of reality. Suddenly, everyone is mean, cruel, and out to get them; they become reactive—set out to get o...
