{"id":22716,"date":"2025-12-05T09:20:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T15:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=22716"},"modified":"2025-12-05T09:20:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T15:20:51","slug":"frustration-an-emotional-spectrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2025\/12\/05\/frustration-an-emotional-spectrum\/","title":{"rendered":"frustration:  An emotional spectrum?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about anyone else, but I find myself frustrated quite frequently. lately though I&#8217;ve been pondering about what frustration stems from. what makes someone shutdown? sink into their own bodies as if their problems were an iceberg and they the titanic. I made a short poem about my pondering and as you read it think about a time you were frustrated most how did you feel? what made you keep going even after being so frustrated? how do you react to problems you can&#8217;t avoid?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Frustration is a manifestation of one&#8217;s most inner self-double bubbling to the surface. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A cousin to fear and a descendant of truth. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">We revolve like doors around the circumferences of things we are most comfortable in life.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">We often find ourselves a growing tree although sometimes kazoo stalks our roots.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I find myself experiencing it during silence. When I&#8217;m alone at a desk in my room.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">IT manifests itself as a bug.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Stalking like a spider. Feeding off the blood of my emotions like a mosquito.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I find myself drowning inside my own head. Thoughts spinning like a washer.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Cleaning me with doubt about myself. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Frustration manifests itself in the bumps on my skin. Crawling through my esophagus.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">It silences me and makes it hard to breathe.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&nbsp;I find myself playing make believe in the devil house.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Events of troubled memories whisper to me like the wind during winter.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">It never lies though it forces me to lie in bed with my truths.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>by now you&#8217;re probably wondering what that has to do with frustration. well, I think frustration is like a Pok\u00e9mon it evolves itself by feeding of the very berries we hide our the truths we buried. it&#8217;s kind of like when eve bit the fruit from the tree. it exposes our sins to our conciseness and leads to a reaction like over thinking causing you to continue sinking deeper into thoughts you only think about when it&#8217;s time to repent.<\/p>\n<p>I believe one of my biggest frustrations stems from my asthma not because of the annoyance it causes it&#8217;s the fear it invokes especially when jack frost sends kisses from the moon to the earth, I&#8217;m always on my toes tiptoeing around my own body I wrap myself in a mental bubble wrap. it causes me to rethink the smallest of actions even for things my heart always held the dearest attraction for.&nbsp; maybe moving forward, I learn to release myself from the grapples it holds on to me. I think when we learn to release ourselves from the things we hide deep inside, we avoid the penetration of frustration&#8217;s sword into our hearts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>what makes you frustrated?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>what do you think frustration is?<\/p>\n<p>what are steps you take to release yourselves from things like anxiety and fear?<\/p>\n<p>if you had to write a poem about frustration what would the first line be?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ih1.redbubble.net\/image.625766340.7508\/flat,1000x1000,075,f.u4.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Think Too Much collection&quot; by $onny Gold | Redbubble\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I found this picture online by $onny gold I think it&#8217;s kind accurate it&#8217;s like emotions taking over the place where your brains are supposed to be, I guess?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know about anyone else, but I find myself frustrated quite frequently. lately though I&#8217;ve been pondering about what frustration stems from. what makes someone shutdown? sink into their own bodies as if their problems were an iceberg and they the titanic. I made a short poem about my pondering and as you read &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2025\/12\/05\/frustration-an-emotional-spectrum\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;frustration:  An emotional spectrum?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"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\/22716"}],"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\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22716"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22765,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22716\/revisions\/22765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}