I want to speak about overwhelming emotions that consume us. About feelings that the human body cannot contain.

When a certain feeling hits, the tears become too heavy to hold onto – a feeling so overwhelming that the body can’t contain it any longer. It spills outward and becomes a being of its own. I believe that it is important to acknowledge this force.

I think about nature, about how the ginkgo tree sheds all its leaves in a single night, moving into a new stage of life.

We cannot always choose what we feel, nor can we always stop what overwhelms us. But we can acknowledge that our emotions exist. They take shape, occupy space, and interact with the world around us.

I want to defend our right to feel more than our bodies can contain.

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