Lack of sleep makes me ponder

What stops us from saying the most important things we want to say?
Saying how we feel.

I think personally, it's fear.
Fear that you might just open up your heart and feelings to somebody and never be able to get them back. After all, once it's done, it's done. You can't take back those words or that moment.
Fear of rejection? That you may say something that isn't mutual or worse, they don't feel the same at all.

For me it's the fear of opening up. There is so many people these days who want to tell the world everything they feel, Facebook is the worst culprit, especially with the Wall-to-Wall's of soppy couples and the inevitable "love you xxxxxxxxxxxx" "love you moreeee <3 xxxxxxxx"
I'm not saying this in a bitter or cold-hearted witchy way, love is a beautiful thing and yes it's something to be celebrated. however, sometimes these big gestures make me weary, do they really mean it, is it to prove to somebody/ some people that they are happy or have some who loves them or is it societal pressure that we have to tell all our secrets and feelings. But do we?
Secrets are secrets, the love between two people doesn't have to be the knowledge of anybody else does it?

Maybe its my starsign Gemini that forces me into two minds; i want to be open but also want private. Or perhaps that my mum's genes in me. It seems as if shyness is some form of social abnormality, we all must be confident and outspoken, but shoudn't we just accept different personality traits.

I've opened up in the past, some for the best, some for the worst. But I read a good quote today but the one and only Dolly Parton, 'if you want a rainbow, you've gotta take the rain'.
You kiss a few frogs before you get your Prince as the story goes.

This goes back to my pondering, maybe I've met my Prince, maybe I don't want to admit that to myself because then my heart is on my sleeve and then it's all in their hands.....
Eek!