Confrontations

Have you felt consumed by bitter emotions? It’s nauseating. You can either suppress what you feel through various distractions and try forgetting about it. Or you can confront the source of those emotions and try to resolve it.

It’s always easier to just try forgetting about them. Today, the number of distractions have increased immensely and it is so convenient to disregard those feelings and divert your attention to meaningless virtual things, from scrolling through social media or binge-watching videos. But you know they are always there at the back of your mind, ready to make you feel the ugliest version of yourself as soon as you take a break from the distractions. Distractions temporarily dull the pain and the hurt, but they never heal.

It’s tough to deal with confrontations on the other hand. It takes guts and mental effort to analyze where these emotions originate from. In most cases, confrontations require communicating with another human being and it is extremely mentally draining. You have to first figure out why you feel what you feel and then communicate it to the source. This sounds like a simple process but its far from it. Because figuring out your own feelings is something that can’t be done easily. But once you do, you have to try and confront the person as rationally as you can. Although more often than not, in spite of planning on being sane, you end up being consumed by emotions and lash out like a wounded animal.

But as hard as they might be, confrontations are necessary. The other person at least now knows how you feel and you would then get to know how they feel. The latter might be pretty surprising at times; the other perspective would actually be beneficial to understand the situation more clearly. It would be relieving, to say the least. The unwanted burden of hideous feelings would start feeling a little lighter, bringing in hopes of actually getting rid of it.

Confrontations might not be satisfying or comfortable, but would definitely be mentally soothing – just like seeing the sun trying to shine on a cold foggy dull morning.