Spilled Over...

Have you ever been so full of anxiety? Caused by not living your authentic life…Shaken and tight like a soda bottle, you become full with fear... now tears well up in your eyes.  Like that soda bottle shaken and full, so are you. You’ve been hiding, suppressing, oppressed, depressed, angry and hurt. Something unscrewed the cap of your soda bottle and cola starts seeping, squirting everywhere. Someone, or event, or trigger loosened your cap of anxiety and you’re out of control....               

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You try all you can to hold on, unable to hold all of your unsettled emotions...shaken and scared...you finally explode, tears are everywhere, fears are everywhere...as the foam and cola runs down the side, and the bottle releases that pressure, you are uncorked, open, and exposed. Soda spilled everywhere, there’s a mess...the cola is on the floor, and so are all your fears, you, and everything you try to keep deep down, in the reservoirs of your soul, is now out for everyone to see. There’s no more hiding, it’s out. The foam settles back down into that bottle, and it’s halfway empty, and so are you. No more lies, no more looking for a place to hide. Have you ever been here?...empty. Have you been in this place where you rather go flat like that cola left in the bottle, to be poured in the sink, and tossed away? Or to be worthy of love, from whom you love...to climb out of that bottle and into freedom...I have been this bottle...shaken, and I have been uncorked...spilled all over the floor, for all to see. In the end, I had to be ok with me...free.