{"id":11343,"date":"2021-02-17T15:11:55","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T21:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=11343"},"modified":"2021-02-17T15:11:59","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T21:11:59","slug":"basketball-players-dont-cry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2021\/02\/17\/basketball-players-dont-cry\/","title":{"rendered":"Basketball Players Don’t Cry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cBasketball players don\u2019t cry.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

What makes people think just because I play a sport means I can\u2019t have emotions?\u00a0 Basketball players cry a lot, at least this one does.\u00a0 I cry over being bullied, I cry over my life situation, I cry over my crush not accepting me because they\u2019re studying abroad next school year.\u00a0 Sometimes I don\u2019t even know why I\u2019m crying. I just can\u2019t stop the tears from flowing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Truly, I have always been an emotional person, a crybaby most would say.\u00a0 The truth is people need to stop running from how they feel.\u00a0 Oftentimes growing up my father would tell me to \u201cStop crying or he\u2019d give me something to cry about.”\u00a0 That is the toxic behavior that instills into people making them think they aren\u2019t allowed to feel emotions.\u00a0 Emotions are not a bad thing. They aren\u2019t the problem. The problem is the people who refuse to acknowledge their emotions and simply call a person weak for showing them.\u00a0 In reality, it shows strength to let yourself show emotions, to be vulnerable.\u00a0 Stop telling people with depression to just go outside, you wouldn\u2019t tell that to someone with cancer, would you?\u00a0 People with disorders such as depression can sometimes not have very good control of their emotions.\u00a0 If you always feel numb and nothing, you would want to feel something, at any cost.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Society has made up this allusion that you must always be happy all the time when in reality this is not possible.\u00a0 If you were never to experience sadness, you would never know the thrill of excitement.\u00a0 No one likes feeling upset, but hiding that pain does nothing but hurt you more.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Now I\u2019m not telling you to hit someone because they stole your french fry, but you have the right to tell them to stop doing that.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So let\u2019s all just be a little kinder and consider each other’s feelings.\u00a0 Just because you don\u2019t get upset and someone who ate your sandwich doesn\u2019t mean you can eat other people.\u00a0 I know that is a dumb example but the point still stands.\u00a0 Trauma has clawed at some of us; even simple mentioning of simple words triggers us to have flashbacks.\u00a0 Some things are sensitive topics for people, for example, I get upset when people flaunt food I can\u2019t have because of my restrictions.\u00a0 I miss being able to drink coke so don\u2019t chug one right in front of me, it\u2019s super disrespectful.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cBasketball players don\u2019t cry.\u201d What makes people think just because I play a sport means I can\u2019t have emotions?\u00a0 Basketball players cry a lot, at least this one does.\u00a0 I cry over being bullied, I cry over my life situation, I cry over my crush not accepting me because they\u2019re studying abroad next school year.\u00a0 … Continue reading “Basketball Players Don’t Cry”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11343"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11425,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11343\/revisions\/11425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}