Smiles & Tears, Oh My...
The times we remember. And we are here for all of it.
I’m a firm believer that the most impactful emotion that can ever be felt is the act of crying and laughing at the same time for an an extended period. I don’t know what it is but those are the situations that burn in your memory. Pain fades, joy is replaced, but when you put both tears and laughter together, there’s something quintessential about the humanism in it.
It’s kind of like electrolytes with the salt and sugar. You don’t want them to go together, but they do and they go hard 😘
I also really like the feeling of fully letting tears dry. Literally sitting there with the tears and feeling every small tightening of evaporation pulling on the skin. Literally, letting the emotion both sink in and float away; being there for all of it.