RULE TO BREAK
It’s good to let your feelings out
A few decades ago you never expressed how you felt. Stiff upper lip and all that. Bottle it up, keep it in, don’t burden others with it. Well that all seems to have gone by the wayside, and by and large I’ve been happy to wave it a cheery goodbye. It’s certainly healthier to express your feelings than to deny them.
However, just because it’s good for you to say how you feel, that doesn’t mean it’s good to let your emotions out at any time and in any company. There’s a world of difference between having a cry on your best friend’s shoulder – or your mum’s or your partner’s – and sobbing in public or in front of whoever happens to be there at the time.
I have a friend who is an undertaker. He tells ...
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