03/25/2026
Man, so true. Not up to others to understand but we must forgive ourselves, sometimes when in our mind and heart we didn't deserve it
Rusalka is often told as a warning, a spirit that pulls others beneath the surface. But beneath the story is something deeper emotion that was never expressed, grief that had nowhere to go, a voice that was never heard while it still mattered.
Because not all pain disappears.
Some of it lingers.
There is a version of you that held things in. That stayed quiet to keep the peace, that swallowed what you felt to avoid conflict, that carried emotions alone because it felt easier than being misunderstood.
But what you suppress doesn’t dissolve.
It builds.
Rusalka represents what happens when emotion is pushed down for too long. When silence turns into distance. When everything looks calm on the surface, but underneath something is pulling.
And people only notice when it overflows.
They don’t see the restraint that came before it. The times you stayed quiet. The ways you tried to contain something that was never meant to be held.
So when it rises, it can feel like you’ve become too emotional. Too sensitive. Too much.
But you didn’t become too much.
You became honest about what was already there.
Your emotions are not the problem. They are signals. And when you ignore them, they don’t disappear, they return louder, heavier, harder to hold.
So if something in you is rising now, don’t push it back down.
Listen.
Because what you allow yourself to feel now won’t have to pull you under later.
