Just like how pride and belonging are common emotions associated with Singapore, as a 22-year-old Singaporean, I’ll bet that many of my age feel a sense of fear and anxiety towards the future too.
I’ve been told that everyone feels emotions in different places in their body. Pride along the straight of your spine. Belonging from the bottom of your stomach, spreading throughout. Love under your left lung, like a beating heart.
For me, fear spreads down my neck. Like ice crystals, it spreads, it paralyses. Anxiety starts right where my heart is, a tight clenching in my chest as I do nothing but stare blankly as the world shrinks in.
