It’s not the sadness that hurts — it’s the shift from happiness to sadness. That moment when the bubble of illusion bursts and you fall hard onto the ground of reality. Happiness is an illusion. It feels so sweet, gives you immense comfort, and secretly promises to stay forever — but the moment you try to embrace it fully, it slips through your fingers.

Emotions are like viruses. No matter how hard you try to avoid them, you end up getting infected. It’s strange how others’ happiness can make you smile, and their sadness can sink you. Is it attachment? Or is it just consciousness that makes you feel everything so deeply? And what’s the antidote? Should you numb your soul until you feel nothing at all? Or isolate yourself so nothing reaches you?

Sometimes it feels like it’s too much consciousness — the kind that won’t let any feeling pass until you’ve experienced it in its full depth. This consciousness pulls you deep into every emotion, until you’re unsure of anything. It’s like a disease with no cure. You’re forced to feel everything you think, and what you think… is nothing but a bunch of bullshit your mind keeps creating. And somehow, you love that bullshit too.

TheSparklingWords // Anushree Vaishnav