The Art of Feeling Too Much
Do you ever feel like you feel too much, so much that it becomes an obstacle? In a world full of algorithms and AI-generated content, do your feelings even have a place? If you’re also confused, lost, and enraged, welcome to my world. I have felt out of place my whole life. I have sabotaged my dreams, my career, my relationships, and even the way I see myself because I feel too much. I try to quantify, label, and fit my feelings into a box. I keep reading articles about human psychology as if they will help me understand why my brain does what it does. The only good thing about these feelings is that they have made me a writer. I write and write and write. I write so much that I zone out. I forget what I was writing about, like a pebble thrown into a pond, lost somewhere between its many jumps. I wander off into my own world. Maybe my world is where I am supposed to be. Maybe I do not belong here, or maybe I just have not found my people yet. Either way, I am not going to give up. I am...