What you keep inside will always find its way out.
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Daniel had been going to work every day for two years after his mother died. He answered emails. He attended meetings. He laughed at the right moments. His colleagues said he was handling it remarkably well. He told himself the same thing. So he bottled up the grief, the anger, the exhaustion β and each time it tried to surface, he pushed it back down. He got very good at it. So good that he stopped noticing the weight.
It was a Tuesday in November when Daniel finally fell apart. Nothing dramatic triggered it β a song on the radio that his mother used to hum. He pulled over. He sat in the car for forty minutes, shaking. Later, he would say it was the most honest he had been with himself in two years. Not a collapse. A release. The kind that, once over, leaves you quieter β and, strangely, lighter.