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This Thing Called Relief and its Beauty
It is the feeling of life
At this moment, if I wanted to experience a feeling again among everything I have ever felt, I would choose relief.
Relief as in the thing you feel when something making you anxious has seen a solution.
I wasn’t sure if they identified relief as a feeling, so I did a little check:
RELIEF noun a feeling of happiness that something unpleasant has not happened or has ended
Relieved that I was culturally correct, I continued writing…
Relief is something you would feel if somebody came and saved you from drowning. Something you would feel if you saw a lid opening above you after hours of panic in a claustrophobic cave. Although relief only lasts for a short time, its impact is longer. Once you feel relief, it stays with you for as long as you don’t give yourself something else to be anxious about.
That being said, it is important to know that to experience relief one has to be anxious about something particular. And to be anxious, one has to anticipate something first.
I chose relief among all the feelings I have ever felt because of my experience with it last evening. Anxious about not being able to find a job that allows me to write (anything!) in this new…
