So often people carry their past traumas into their present lives, and if you want any proof that we carry who we were in who we are, all you need to do is see how you respond to your inner child hearing, "You’re going to be okay" from the person they became.
Sadness will not kill you. Depression won’t, either. But fighting it will. Ignoring it will. Trying to escape it rather than confront it will.
Denying it will. Suffocating it will.
Because your numbness isn’t feeling nothing, it’s feeling everything, and never having learned to process anything at all.
Numbness is not nothing, neutral is nothing. Numbness is everything at once.