Thanks for your response. 🙂 It’s been a challenging month so far, I’ve discovered I despise being vulnerable and generally have learned to guard myself quite well, all while still managing to cultivate fairly close relationships, however always feeling like there was a hole. I’ve discovered the gap or key element missing might be authenticity, but I have also discovered when we are our authentic selves it can often make others uncomfortable. Then come the well meaning, yet often unhelpful or damaging comments, it’s not worth crying over, just let it go, but so often part of the process of letting it go is feeling validated in our feelings. So thus we learn to hide our true selves little by little, maybe in part for self preservation, maybe in part for other’s “comfortableness” .   So I always try to encourage those who post real feelings, real life stories on Facebook…….And now I think I will be able to complete March 11 challenge….. in re-posting some version of this on social media.