Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up

by Alexandra Potter

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It’s a powerful thing, feeling like you’re understood without ever having to explain. To have that connection. I once read somewhere that the reason two people come together is to feel like they’re not alone. Not physically, but emotionally.

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We’re encouraged to be our true, authentic selves, but being told to feel happy when you’re just not feeling it only encourages us to be the exact opposite. Life can be wonderful but it can also be scary and hard. We should be free to feel sad or gloomy or just downright bloody miserable, without feeling like there’s something wrong with us.