feed your hungry sadness

sadness seeks sad things, like poetry and books and music.
sadness seeks sad things because it wants to be seen.

like all emotions, sadness needs to be felt.

recognized.
validated.
accepted.
loved.  

avoidance or resistance or replacing the sad with the happy just doesn’t do the trick. 

starving the darkness only amounts to hungry darkness.
feeding it is what keeps it at bay. 

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