It’s okay to be sad
Sadness, like this,
it’s about surrendering to the situation.
A lot of other feelings can stand in for sadness.
But sadness emerges when you stop building layers on top of it.
Sadness is the last straw. There is always a last straw, after every other one in the bunch has been taken.
Sadness like this
is about yourself being sad.
It is acceptance of an inherently sad situation. Grief or a loss.
Sadness is not a performance.
And sadness is not what you do to get something you always wanted.
It is accepting that you can’t have it,
you never could,
and you won’t keep trying to believe something there is no evidence for.
It is the final facing up to reality, the reality that is yours alone and the entire truth.