harder than it looks

{i know how easy it can be to let yourself build walls and set up defensive to mask the pain of the past or to seem strong when you feel you are not. all those things are appropriate in the short run to get through the "grin and bear it" portion.. but if you don't let it out and take them down quickly they erode on your emotions and become permanent traits. friends who once knew you before will not recognize their kind friend and even might be reluctant to hang out with you given the cold-ness you exude. what you dont really think about, is whatever that was that made you that for the time being, is now controlling you after you are "over" it. and affecting your life in negative ways, which is the worst of all.}

let it go. be you. be vulnerable. love and laugh.