Today I Cried. It Will Get Better.
Will it last forever? Today I cried. When I stopped to think about who I’ve become. I cried. Where was the cheerful, immature innocence that I once had? I don’t know this person staring back at me in the mirror. The degraded confidence, the empty stare. Who’s in there? Where did the power, laughter, confidence go? How can I find it? I want it back. I need it back. I’ll have it back. Hello. It’s me. The struggle What do you do when the challenges and storms of life have seemed to push you so far that the only way you can protect yourself is to hide in a shell of your true self? The storms keep coming and you wonder if it will ever end. You struggle to remember the last time you experienced true peace. It seems like such a distant memory. Meanwhile, you try everything you can to hold it together because surely the suffering can’t last forever. Can it? You pray to God to help you get through the pain. Life’s experiences have taught you not to ask that it stop