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I will never need you to tell me to relax. There are a lot of times when people will hear you getting excited or flustered or angry, and they will attempt to belittle your feelings. I don't understand this at all. I do not need you to calm me down. I don't need you to help me relax. 

You see, when you tell me to relax, it does not make me relax.

In fact, it enrages me. 

I do not like the idea that belittling emotions -- or not suffering from emotions -- makes you superior to someone else. Why would you not want to fully experience something? It is okay to laugh and to cry. It's okay to be happy, to be sad, and to be angry. There is no wrong emotion, because emotions are unique. I experience happiness differently than you do. You experience sadness differently than I do. 

Feelings are what make us human, and when you take away emotions, then you eliminate diversity. 

So, basically, stop telling people to relax. Stop making fun of people for being excited or sad or mad or any other emotion. Encourage them to feel fully. And while you encourage them, you should try to feel everything too.

catch you later,

Karleigh

"Don't let someone who has done nothing tell you how to do anything." // unknown