Ears Are For Listening

Sometimes, life sucks. A lot. And the days drag by and people treat you poorly and you have to fight to get out of bed.

Sometimes, things are going to hurt. A lot. People aren't going to care what you have to say. They're going to press your buttons. They're going to overreact. They're going to disrespect you. They're going to get mad at you for doing the same things they did to you. And it's going to hurt.

Sometimes, you're going to be nervous. You're going to be terrified of people. Of school. Of work. Of life itself and it's going to be tough.

But we're also going to have good days. We're going to smile and cry tears of laughter and eat good ice cream with people we want to be with.

And my absolute favorite thing about this life is that we have the creator of the universe on our side. He is on our side, fighting with us, holding our hand every step of the way. That is an unchanging fact. No matter what.

Today was a really rough day for me. Like one of the most rough days of my life, and unfortunately I'm going to probably have a lot more like these, but it's okay. It's okay to be sad, it's okay to be angry, it's okay to be scared, it's okay to be frustrated. For some reason, this society has trained us to think we always have to be the most put together person. We always have to be happy, we always have to love this life.

But we don't.

People put up this façade that they're always happy. They put up Instagram pictures from their latest adventure with big smiles in the prettiest places, but no one knows what goes on all the other times.

WE ARE HUMAN and we have emotions and we have every right to feel them (EVEN YOU, BOYS). There aren't always answers and sometimes we just have to sit through the pain. But there are over 7 billion people on this earth and there are over 7 billion stories. Odds are, there is at least one person near you that can relate to your story, your bad day, or is just willing to listen. Reach out to that person. Don't hear the lies that you're a bother. You're not. You're far from it. You are a person of a community, a city, a state, a country, and a planet and you deserve to be heard.

Now be heard.