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Emotional repression from "summary" of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

Emotional repression is a potent weapon against the self. It is a kind of emotional martial law, the controlled demolition of our most dangerous impulses. But what happens when the enemy is not external, but internal? What happens when the enemy is the self? When we turn that martial law against ourselves, we become the dictator of our own emotional landscape. We become the enforcer of our own silence. Repression is a form of self-imposed censorship. It is the act of burying our emotions deep within ourselves, out of fear of what might happen if they were allowed to surface. It is the act of building walls around our vulnerability, of fortifying our emotional borders. But these walls do not keep our emotions out; they keep them in. They imprison our feelings, chaining them to the darkest corners of our minds. Emotional repression is a form of emotional self-harm. It is the act of turning our own emotions against ourselves, of weaponizing our vulnerability. It is the act of denying ourselves the right to feel, the right to be human. It is the act of denying ourselves the right to heal. Repression is a poison that seeps into every corner of our being. It infects our relationships, our work, our daily lives. It turns us into emotional prisoners, locked in a perpetual cycle of denial and suppression. It robs us of the ability to connect with others, to empathize, to love. It turns us into emotional islands, cut off from the world around us. But there is a way out of this prison of repression. There is a way to break free from the chains of our own making. It is through the act of vulnerability, of openness, of honesty. It is through the act of allowing ourselves to feel, to experience, to be. It is through the act of letting go of the walls we have built around ourselves, of tearing down the barriers that separate us from our emotions. It is through the act of embracing our humanity, in all its messy, complicated glory.
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    On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

    Ocean Vuong

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