Dear Shirley, Earth Angel:

I agree with it being unhealthy to repress feelings, not to express them. Some social situations require repression, of course. But the emotions need to be processed and expressed somehow.

The liars referred to in the poem you quoted from, one of them is the inner bully.

“To live life to the fullest” is a concept you repeated through your posts, over time. As far as I know, “Every one of us has to find a way to live with fear”- a line from a poem I know. Fear blocks us from living life as if there was no danger.

In other words, danger is real. Some people are dangerous so we have to be cautious with those people, not be… fully ourselves with them, that is, not our vulnerable selves, not with them. We have to face our limitations- so we can’t live life as if we had no limitations.

Living life with more freedom, less fear, yes, absolutely.

anita