Messages Lost in Confusion

Confusion is honest in a way that certainty often isn't. When you don't know what you feel, or what to think, or what the right choice is—that's real. The problem is that confusion is hard to communicate. People want you to know what you want. They want clear stories with clear emotions. But feelings don't always cooperate.

Messages written in confusion are tangled by nature. They might contradict themselves. They might ask questions without expecting answers. They might say "I don't know" more than once. That's okay. Sometimes the most truthful thing you can say is that you haven't figured it out yet.

Here, you don't have to have it sorted. You can write through the fog, put words to the uncertainty, trace the outline of feelings you can't quite name. Sometimes the act of writing helps clarify things. Sometimes it doesn't, and that's okay too. The confusion is allowed to exist.