Just be.

What a wonderful place this world would be if people just talked things out, isn't it? We do wonder, don't we all? But, in reality, we shy away from some of the most necessary conversations of our lives just because we don't have it in us to be brutally honest with others and even more so with our-own-selves. It simply just hurts sometimes! Like they say, we're just humans, aren't we? 

But there's a catch. As much as it hurts to mint those words and voice those bottled-up emotions from the deep trenches of our hearts, we rid ourselves into a far darker color of angst as we drown ever so deeply tied to the anchor of pain. It's like a nail that just keeps tightening and tightening us into the wall, suffocating us while we hide ourselves behind the picture of ourselves smiling from eye to eye, framed and hung over it.

What do we even do now? Would we even see light again? Will we glide into the forever silence, gasping for one last breath of air, wishing we had taken a chance just once to get back to the surface for once when we could? If only we could! May be the peace we want to gift the world is not that worth after all. Let's not just smile and laugh, but also nourish our souls, shed a tear, lose our cool, shout into the abyss, and let it out, not just once, but over and over again if you have to, somewhere with the right pillars. At least this way, may be, someone can finally hear you and nudge you just a bit enough so that you can finally make it to the surface on your own and take that breath. Let's take that chance. Let's act real. Let's be real. Let's be human. Just be.

Yours sincerely,
The Overthinker