Thoughts With Unicorn Dusts

SILLY IN LOVE: WTF (What The Feels)

        “The Feels”. It’s when you feel that kind of bursting emotion in your heart that you cannot contain, so your eyes become dopey and a goofy grin automatically forms in your face.

        It might happen when you see a person that makes your day brighter. Or if you see your favorite character in a movie or book. Or maybe if you see your One True Pairing.  A cute picture may even be the cause of “the feels”.

        “The Feels” is a phenomenon yet to be discovered. And let’s talk about the most common cause of this feeling- the feeling when you see or think of “your person”. And let’s make an example. Drum roll please…ME and the cause of “my feels”.

        You see, I have this silly crush or infatuation or maybe even greater than that towards someone. Let’s call them FS. I have been pining for them for years now. Of course it’s a secret, so Shhh and let’s keep it to our internet geeky selves.

        I always get “the feels” whenever I see them. It doesn’t matter if it’s just an old photo of us together or them in person or even something that they gave me. I automatically experience “The Feels “. And it always fascinates me that even after all these years, they still have the same effect on me. Just when I thought I was finally, finally over them, I always find myself back to square one which is hopelessly and irrevocably more that infatuated with them. Okay, I give you permission to roll your eyes because I know I am being silly.

        You can’t blame me though. This person is honestly the sweetest person ever. Kinda moody at times (though you can blame it on me and my silly antics). They are very talented too! Singer, dancer, can play several instruments and very artistic too (Cool right?!).

        They are kinda my pick-me-up. It’s not often that I see them but just one smiling picture of them makes my day a little bit colorful, all rainbow and all the jazz. Bonus point if I am with them in the picture.

        I’m pretty and I’m sure that I am not the only one who experiences “the feels”. I know that you, my adorable and witty reader have felt it too and perhaps you are already thinking that person who makes you wanna scream in the most innocent and definitely not sexual way.

        Sometimes, we just can’t get enough of “the feels”.

        But “the feels” has its disadvantages. One prime example is when the cause of your feels is already taken and therefore any feelings that you have for them cannot be reciprocated. You will literally get the feels. All feelings to give and nothing to receive.

        It’s sad and a little bit depressing that there is another person (a super lucky one, take note) that causes your person to have the feels. Unfortunately, it is not you.

        Cliché as it sounds, but we can’t always get what we want. Sometimes, we just have to let go. But how can we stop ourselves from feeling? How do we unlove someone? It can be easy and it can be hard. Easy being as time goes by, the feels becomes smaller and smaller until one day it’s gone. You remember the person, but you can’t remember the feeling anymore (nice song by the way). Occasionally, you’ll remember the times when you were head-over-toes infatuated with them.

        On the other hand, the hard way means you will have to force yourself to stop because it’s already hurting you. It’s not an inspiration anymore but more like of a curse. A curse that is activated when you see the cause of “your feels” together with the cause of “their feels”. Because no matter how happy you are for them, there will always be that wish at the back of your mind that “it could have been you” or “I wish it’s me and not them”. But stopping also means being hurt. Personally, I believe that you can control what you are feeling. Because we have our rational mind to guide us. However, if we start to acknowledge those feelings  and be like “Oh yeah, I think I feel something towards them”; and give even a little chance to overpower our mind, it will be hard for us to unfeel.

        Our emotions are something that Science hasn’t discovered yet. Though some Science Geeks may say that something happens to a part of our brain that sends something to our heart that makes it beat faster; or releases something that makes us feel elated, no one can really answer why, in the first place, our brains do that. But anyway, it’s okay. Mysteries are cool.

        Science is universal. It consists of facts that are true to you, to me and to the other people from across the continent. But feelings are not. What you feel towards something or someone might be different with someone else.

        But no matter the consequences are, we cannot stop ourselves from getting “the feels”. Because in one way or another, it makes us happy and makes us feel something. It makes us feel alive. It makes us humans.

        One day, I hope to meet someone who I will experience “the feels” and have them experience it too, with me of course. But until then, I will let this person be the reason of “my feels”.

        You, who is that person who makes you say WTF?