Why do we want our success to be loud but our pain to be silent?

I believe a part of my own purpose in this life is to continually remind myself and others to have compassion and create space for our emotional pain and the most hidden parts of ourselves. To share and be vulnerable about the raw human emotions I've dealt with, and that I know we all deal with. I firmly believe there is so much wisdom found at the core of our deepest emotions, that are often not pleasant or easy to confront. All my life I've deeply appreciated authenticity. I did not like pretending even if it made others feel uncomfortable. So during my periods of depression I often wrote about it or made music of it, or posted a blog post about it, because I wanted to change the mindset we have on talking about these vulnerable subjects. I wanted to share a new narrative that says: it's okay to not always be ok. And even if it wasn't depression but just a really hard day or week, being overwhelmed with life, feeling lonely or just living on survival mode, I often fel...