Rage, Part 2. “Sorrow is Truth.”

Stephen M. Paulsen
4 min readJul 28, 2019
Image by Igor Yastrebov from Pixabay

I keep my sadness pent up inside me…

…until it festers as a mental illness.

Release is feeling the ten thousand joys and the ten thousand sorrows. The sorrows always seem to be on the verge of taking over my life, overwhelming me. The joys are minimal. For some reason, I can not feel the joy. It is out of my reach.

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Stephen M. Paulsen

Spear Thistle (Cirsium vulgare). Debatably pretty. Lots of thorns. High-functioning depressive guarded by wit, sarcasm, and brutal honesty.