Bottles.

Delicate things are stored in bottles. Tiny replicas of boats and messages. When you walk through the halls at school to you stop to think of what is in the hidden bottles of your peers?


She is about to explode because her friend told someone a secret.
But she put that in a bottle on the bottom shelf.

One of his grandparents just passed away, he is on the verge of tears.
But he puts them in a bottle and hides it on the back of the shelf that football games cover up.

She is standing there laughing with a group of people, but she just bombed a test and is trying not to freak out about it.
She bottles that all up inside to save for later.

We bottle emotions and store them away because we feel as if that is the best way to handle them. We choose to believe that no one would care and letting them spill would be pointless. Plus, if we collect as many as we can. they make a beautiful light show when the right light shines in. When we meet those shiny people in our life, we are able to let down our walls and show them our emotions, and the bottles light up like the stained glass windows in an old church. At first, the shiny people create a whole new experience within our emotions, but the longer you are with them, the more bottles they take down. When those people are gone, we start our collection again, having no one to share our feelings with. 
I have always been scared of the wine sections of stores, because with that many bottles stacked on the shelves, it doesn't take much to have them all crash down. Without that relief of a shiny person, the constant bottling up of our emotions is only going to lead to a break down. Especially considering all the pressure we are put under as teenagers in high school. Stress and glass bottles do not work well FYI. Thankfully, there maybe a number of solutions with our hoarding problem, unfortunately, they all involve emptying out those dusty bottles. 
Some of these may seem cheesy and lame, but do you know what else is lame? Hiding your emotions inside and tweeting about them late at night.
Look for shiny people to hang around. Find the people you can sympathize with and be yourself around.
Talk to your parents. As old school as this sounds, they are people who you can always count on to want the best for you.
Journal about it. "Dear Diary...", lame I know, but sometimes just unfiltered ranting helps.
Just start laughing. This is the best advice I can give anyone when it comes to being a happier person. 
JSL