Written at 1am
May 24th
Hi, my name is Kerri. I just stumbled across your Instagram and Etsy tonight, and your work is honestly beautiful. I’m pretty sure I’m going to end up ordering one of your headpieces.
But the real reason I wanted to message you is because I understood exactly what you meant about “feeling too much.” You wrote a poem under the title of Elephant.
That hit me hard. That’s me too.
I still remember the exact moment I shut that part of myself off. I was around 12, sitting in elementary school, and I realized feeling everything all at once was just too overwhelming. I felt the energy of every person around me. The sadness. The cruelty. The bullies. All of it. And after a while, I learned how to go quiet inside myself just to survive it.
I kept that feeling part of me buried for a long time. But a few weeks ago, I decided to let myself feel again instead of hiding from it. And honestly? It’s been lovely. Painful sometimes, but lovely too. Like waking back up after being numb for years.
I guess I’m writing you tonight because I wanted you to know you’re not alone in that feeling. There are people like us out here quietly carrying the weight of the world around with us.
