The more pressure you contain, the more you increase the power and volume of your roar. Yet this also comes with greater exhaustion, which makes succumbing to temptation and being swept away by the comfort of a liberatingly soft sigh quite a seductive option. Take a breath, hold it in your chest, and let out a powerful scream that empties the silences contained in your pains and fears. That’s what it means to roar: to ride wildly in the direction of your dreams. Some will call it a dust cloud; others will say it’s a trick, a circus; but blasting what you hold dear within you is instrumental.

Listen to yourself. Pay careful attention to what you have to say to yourself. Ignore the attacks and taunts before they muffle your voice. Determine exactly what the tone and boldness of your cry will be. And unleash that pent-up power.

Make them tremble.

Roar! May everyone hear what you have to say.

Roar! May you have nothing left inside.

Roar! May you end the tyranny of silence.