What Every Tough Girl Needs To Hear Right Now
Us strong, non-tear-shedding women feel stupid for crying because we’re more self-aware. We know that there are so many bad things happening in the world around us, that we’d be selfish and ridiculous to cry about something that in the grand scheme of things is so irrelevant.
Us tough girls make our own feelings small, time and time again. We ignore them and pretend we’re better than that. A strong woman doesn’t feel, right? But just between you and me, we do.
Tough girl, let me tell you something. You will have bad days. Days when you don’t want to see anyone. When you just want to stay alone in your room. You may even feel like crying. But you won’t because you’ve spent your entire life stopping yourself from doing just that. You’ll be so scared of being week that even if you feel like breaking down, you won’t be able to. Sad, right?
Darling, I’m going to be honest with you (which is something that we don’t do very often because we’re not soft chickens and we don’t need to talk about our feelings all the time). I’m having a bad day today. And the worst is I don’t even know why. I’ve spent so much time ignoring my feelings and the fact that even have any, that I never learned how to read them.