One of the Dangers of Being Strong

[queenoftheskies]

Is that, after you do it for a long time, you lose your ability to cry. You feel like it sometimes, but, you can't.

Because, heck, you're strong, and you can't afford the luxury of tears.

And, you know what? Tears are a luxury that everyone should afford themselves. Because, without them, you can't release all the desperation that gets pent up inside you. All that frustration that builds every time you're knocked down and you have to get back up again.

You can't consider not getting back up again because...getting up is what you do.

You learn to live with everything that happens. You learn to control it. You learn to deal with it.

Because you're strong. Because you have no choice. Because you know how to keep going when everyone else is dropping around you.

But, that one good cry. You know it could release everything. It could save you and you could start all over again...

Renewed.