I don’t know how many of y’all have heard me say, “it’s about the comeback, not the comedown” but those are some words to live by. Time after time I see a friend get hurt and try to fake it until they make it but we have to stop doing this.

It’s okay to feel.

It’s okay to hurt.

It’s okay to show emotion.

Don’t push the emotions away. Don’t pretend they aren’t happening because they are. We are allowed to hurt. We are allowed to feel. We are human.

I would be more scared watching my friends go through things and be emotionally numb to it all. If you need to drive into the middle of a field and cry, drive into the middle of a field and cry. Listen up, I don’t even care if it's a full face of snot ugly crying. Let. It. Out. Do what you need to do and own every bit of it.

Not processing things is an act of self destruction that nobody needs to be participating in. If you need to be angry, be angry. If you need to scream, scream. If you need to block people, block people. If you need to throw punches, throw punches, just please not at a person. We all process things differently and that's okay. Just please, process it.