Embracing Emotional Fluctuations as Part of One's Personality

I used to dislike the fluctuations in my emotions.

If things went a little well, I would soar. If I failed a little, I would get depressed.

Watching myself change like the weather, I thought, 'I must become a more stable person.'

In this world, people who do not show their emotions are seen as more mature.

People who are always calm, always positive, and always live at the same temperature are spoken of as the ideal.

That is why I tried to erase the turbulence within me.

However, after living for many years, I think otherwise.

Perhaps what I really should have erased was not my emotions, but 'denying my emotions.'

Because there is joy, I can take on challenges.

Because there is frustration, I can grow.

Because there is anxiety, I prepare.

Because there is sadness, I can notice the pain of others.

If there were no emotional fluctuations, perhaps people would just repeat the same day as yesterday.

Emotions are not the noise of life.

They are life itself.

Of course, there are times when I am swayed by my emotions.

There are days when I fail due to anger, and days when I stand still due to anxiety.

Even so, that turbulence is proof that I am alive.

Recently, I have started to see my emotions not as enemies, but as a guide.

There is a reason when the heart moves deeply.

I feel happy because I care about something.

I feel afraid because I don't want to lose something.

I feel frustrated because I want to change something.

Emotions tell us what we truly value in the present moment.

That is why I do not consider emotional fluctuations to be a flaw.

They are a part of my individuality.

Just as people have different voices and different faces, they also have different ways of experiencing emotional shifts.

If there is anyone currently struggling with their own emotions, you don't have to force yourself to suppress them.

Hidden within those fluctuations is a life that belongs only to you.

I have stopped running away from those emotional shifts.

I have decided to accept joy, frustration, anxiety, and sadness as parts of myself.

The result of that acceptance is my expression and my work.

When I re-examined my emotional fluctuations not as defects, but as seeds of talent, the spark within me began to stir.

And so, I became an artist.