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This week’s topic – bottling up your emotions. Keeping your emotions in check, while not getting consumed by them over time.
“Bottled Emotions” – Unwritten Tomes
A sorcerer who sealed his emotions in a bottle
“I need to focus.”
A sorcerer opened up a small flask hanging around his neck on a silver chain.
A simple hand gesture caused a red wisp to flow out from his temple – straight into the bottle.
What used to be a ritual intended for the most crucial experiments was now a daily occurrence.
The small flask held his emotions. Runes carefully inscribed on the surface transmuted immaterial feelings into a deep red liquid.
Consumed by his latest project – the sorcerer didn’t notice, when a tiny crack appeared on the glass container.
The conclave was drawing closer – he had to show all those bastards what he could do. A mere thought of them made his heart boil.
Immediately, this feeling too, ended up closed in his flask.
He was about to enter his laboratory, when he heard a splash. A single red droplet landed at his feet.
A cold hand squeezed his lungs, and moments later – red liquid burst out from the bottle.
Flowing endlessly, it filled the room and started to get through the walls. It was as if there was a never ending supply of rage closed in the tiny container.
Today, there’s no sign of the house – or the town – the sorcerer lived in. Only a deep red lake serving as a lesson to others.
Don’t bottle up your emotions – or they might rage uncontrollably given the chance.
🪞 Reflections of the story
There are obvious benefits to learning how to keep your emotions in check. After all, you don’t want to throw a tantrum at work just because your company software is malfunctioning again.
But you can’t keep squeezing them in indefinitely – your container has limits. When cracks start appearing, and you fell a deeper issue, take a break before you burst.
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