paralysis

Sometimes paralysis can keep us from that which we want most:

Have you ever felt that you wanted to tell someone that in your eyes, she was the most beautiful person you'd ever seen, but kept silent because you were afraid of a potentially negative reaction?

Have you ever felt like you don't deserve to be happy? Or that it was too much of a risk to lay your heart out there?

Have you ever felt your heart break for someone who you knew was lonely, knowing that your touch or your words wouldn't help them, so you hold your peace?

Have you ever been afraid to tell someone you love them?

Have you ever felt the aching sting of loneliness, made all the more poignant because you know that the cure to your loneliness lies just out of your reach, suffering from the same pain?

Have you ever felt like you would always be alone?

Have you ever wondered if you would get the chance to have someone you love in your arms one more time?

Have you ever worried every time you kiss someone that it would be the last time?

Have you ever felt like you try to hard to hold a relationship together, only to end up pushing the other person away?

Have you ever felt like you are standing in the way of your own happiness?

If you've ever felt this way, I wish I could help you, I'm still trying to help myself with this one.