Is prioritizing work taking a toll on our emotions and relationships?

Never understood, when did life become all about the struggles and difficulties that you are trying to conquer? When did it just become about the excel sheet, the word doc, or the javascript code?

We don’t even acknowledge relationships to be long term nowadays. Because we assume, since, we are dream chasers, hustle formers, solution makers, anything else is sheer wastage. Not paying heed to any such emotion and eventually letting it go; becomes the pattern.

With this, our evolution shifted from being "more connected" to "just connected".

We believe in the extremity of love and hatred. But forget that a lot lies in between as well. Scared, damn scared, we think taking risks is sheer murder of personal space. What if the shield that was passively built with no list of entrants, breaks down? And people start crowding outside with their side of stories and pretending to love me? Or actually, love me? I have to interview and what if I am not that good at it and allow parasites to chew the last bits of my left out good heart? I will have no arteries to pump in the good blood.

Is this what you think?

Do we even realize that by evolving to a human with shields and barriers we are hurting ourselves more?

The reason humans have the ability to sense emotions is enough to let it experience all of it. How easy is it to just let the vines grow. The world might be burning but somewhere there is a little campfire needing a partner. Join that.

Express.

Breathe.

Close your eyes.

Let it Sink in.

Open the barriers.

Follow the rush.

Create a memory.

Build it up.

And swallow everything that stops you from being close.

Work is another form of prejudice that we babysit. It is good to have ambitions, to create standards, and build empires. We all have our differences to make, priorities to set, make a name. But what we keep stamping in that run is the amount of other human emotions that need to be nurtured or at least taken along. Look for people where efforts are minimal but the journey is worth. That makes you stay. And if it does make you stay then stay. Stay for an extra day. An extra week. An extra year maybe.

Remember: Parasites won't live with warm sweat, but fertilizers do.

So, don't let an app decide everything for you. You have to let the incoming happiness cells enter at their own pace and time.

Don’t make them wait at the door. Some times they won’t wait for long.