The Bright Eyes lyric, “let the poets cry themselves to sleep” has always made so much sense to me because sometimes I feel so heavy with every emotion imaginable, so full of thoughts and bursting with opinions that it’s hard not to get emotional sometimes.

To feel so deeply just because of a few words someone put together, because of some feelings you wrote down and crafted into something beautiful where maybe there was once pain, that is a terrifyingly emotional process, and as much as I am afraid of emotion, I am willing to go through that pain because I need to let it out somehow.

Some people sing, some people dance, paint, or run. I write because I couldn’t live without being able to verbalize all of the shit within me.

To feel nothing, to be numb, would be such an empty existence.