Opinion by Christie William: THE ART OF GATEKEEPING EMOTIONS

Why have we adopted the art of keeping our emotions in?

It’s like they don’t even matter anymore.

I didn’t know how to start this because I wanted it to feel like I was really talking to whoever is reading this personally.

But let’s just see how it goes.

I read a newsletter that was just too personal in the emotional way and I thought, “nobody gets personal like that anymore.”

One of the last write-ups I made was me apologizing for several things that are ignored by society, you should know I wrote that first part a long time ago and the rest came a minute before I made the post.

Why am I telling you that? Because I was really stuck that day on what to post until I found it on my clipboard. I didn’t want to get too personal because I thought nobody likes that.

The same way you think nobody wants to hear or read your really personal thoughts that show you being vulnerable.

The truth is that we’ve been taught to keep our emotions to ourselves and anything personal to be shoved up our respective buttocks.

There’s now judgement surrounding any slight vulnerability and therefore it is impossible for one to get personal without being judged.

But is vulnerability actually weakness or strength?

Christie William writes from Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. 

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