"How are you handling it?"

Recently, I was talking to a friend about something tragic I went through, and he asked me, "How's your mental health handling it atm?"

Omor, I weak!

I hadn’t thought about that before. And it got me thinking about how quickly we want to move on from things, how fast we want to get it over with, which in turn leads us to handle it poorly.

In my head, I was like, "Handling it ke?"

Me that ran away from the hurt until it circled back to me on a random afternoon at a close-up dead end.

I read somewhere that pain demands to be felt. If it doesn’t hurt, then it's not pain. So this running away from confronting hurt is just a delay.

Dearest reader, how are you handling things?

How did you handle the last time you went through something that could break someone?

That thing we do where we avoid, run away, or cover up pain with too much work, it never works.

Embrace it!

@favvy_Okwans🖤.