We're
all
walking
around with glossy eyes."I'm just tired," we
say. But you know what? It's all bullshit. Yes, we are
tired, but it's not all from lack of
sleep. We are tired of waking up with nothing to look
forward to, tired of going to bed exhausted after doing a
million 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 surrounded by dozens of people. So why can't we
just say it? Humans are so afraid of looking into each
other's eyes and say, "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,
as if these feelings are contagious, as if ambivalence is
something not to be felt, but to be feared. Well, I say screw
all of that. Screw forced smiles and polite handshakes and
I'm fine, thank yous. Screw the
fear of
crying
in a public place, screw the fake chipper voice, screw the
lies we spit out to cover up our problems. We are
humans. We are meant to feel. To feel
everything and feel it all 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 parts, because if we do, then
what's left to
show?
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