We're all walking round with these glossy eyes. "I'm just tired" we say. But you know what? It's bull. Yes, we are tired, but it's not all from lack of sleep. We're tired of waking up with nothing to look forward to, tired of going to bed exhausted after doing a thousand things we find no enjoyment in doing. We're tired of this void, this emptiness that looms over us even though our days are packed. We're tired of the loneliness that presses down on us even though we're surronded by thousands of people. So why can't we just say it? Humans are so afraid of looking into each-others eyes and saying "I am unhappy, I am broken, I am hopeless and fallible." We've been conditioned to associate pain with weakness, sadness with coldness, loneliness with unworthiness, difference with disease, and if these feelings are contagious, as if ambivalence is something not to be felt but to be feared. Well, I say stuff all of that. Stuff forced smiles and polite handshakes, and I'm fine, thank you 's. Stuff the fear of crying in public places, stuff the fake chipper voice, stuff the lies we spit out to cover up our problems. We are humans. We are meant to feel. To feel everything and feel it openly. We are not metal - we are flesh and bone. Our boiled blood courses through our cold, clammy hands. We are intricate and beautiful and we should never hide our human traits, because if we do, what's left to show?