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Feelings.

It’s a privilege to feel deeply. If a book makes you cry, hold that moment close—it’s a sign your heart is still tender. If a film moves you to tears, give yourself a quiet smile. It means you’re still alive in the places that matter. And if you’ve ever looked at someone at a traffic signal—struggling to sell something just to feed their child—and felt a tear slip because you didn’t have any change, then you, my friend, are still beautifully human.

In a world where numbness is a commodity, where emotions are often dulled by endless scrolling, substance, or distraction—if you can still feel, you’re doing something extraordinary. You’re beating the system. You’re resisting the drift into emotional apathy.

We’re surrounded by tools that do everything but help us understand ourselves. People are losing touch—not just with each other, but with themselves. Emotional intelligence is declining, and with it, our ability to connect.

Take a moment. Put the phone down. Step away from the screen, the bottle, the vape, the pill, the endless to-do list. Feel the sun on your skin. Let the breeze mess up your hair. Walk barefoot on warm grass and remind your body what it means to exist.

Ask yourself—when was the last time you just sat with your thoughts, without a screen or noise to fill the silence? When was the last time you watched a sunset with nothing to post about it? Or traced the veins of a fallen leaf and marvelled at its quiet art?

The stars aren’t just balls of gas burning thousands of lightyears away-they are also a reminder of the brief time we share on this planet. We think we have time, we think we have forever. But we don’t - sometimes all we have is a single day. Look around you-your days are moving too fast now. Did it ever happen to you that it’s evening and you just realised that the whole day has passed? Now imagine you realised this when you are old and gray - that your whole life just went pass you?

Go out, live a little - because feelings are all we have. Because feelings are the only things that lives inside us as a hint of the memories we lived.

Revive your feelings before you become a well-oiled machine with no soul left to burn. Read poetry—not to analyse it, but to feel it. Watch a film not for entertainment, but to be moved. Romanticise the tiny, fleeting, sacred moments—because they’re all we really have.

The world doesn’t need more efficiency. It needs more people who feel.

So stay soft. Stay awake. Stay human.