This writing will self-destruct

With your help, of course

Take out a piece of paper and a pen and, with the intention that you will destroy the paper after you finish, write your absolute heart out. Write about what secretly hurts, write about what you secretly want, write about what you secretly love, hate, crave, or need. Write fully, without regard to who might see or what anyone might think. Write deeply, knowing this paper will be shredded or turned to ashes soon enough, taking all your secrets with it.

What’s the point? Several things: writing our thoughts helps us clarify them, helps us understand and accept them, and, the act of committing them to paper (even paper we know we’ll destroy) feels a little dangerous and vulnerable in a good way, in a way that helps up perhaps realize that putting our innermost thoughts out into the universe might just be okay after all.

Go write. I’m doing the same. We got this.