I walked on the edge of the water on the small, deserted beach. I breathed in the ocean air. My hair blew in the fall breeze. I closed my eyes and thought.
I lay down as the water bopped up and down under me. I thought about how unusually good my life was going. I smiled and stared at the beautiful blue sky. I looked at the clouds moving along in slow motion. I saw birds flying side by side. The world was pretty and calm today. Nothing could bring me down, or so I thought.
My boyfriend called very suddenly. He broke up with me. The sky started clouding over, the winds got violent, the waves got harder. It began drizzling, harder and harder. I wasn’t going cry and to do that I couldn’t breath. I held my breath until my face turned purple and my lungs felt shriveled up and exploded. I suffocated.
I guess sometimes you need to let it out, no matter what.