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We’re all walking about with these masks. “I’m just tired,” we say. But you know what? It’s bullshit. Yes, we are tired, but it’s not at all from lack of sleep. We’re tired of waking up every morning to face the same things as the day before, tired of going to bed with the same things on our minds. We’re tired of this space, this void, an emptiness that shadows over us even though our days are packed from start to finish. We’re tired of the loneliness that pushes down on us even though we’re surrounded by people every day. Why can’t we just say it then? Why can’t we just look into each other’s eyes and say “I’m unhappy, I’m broken, I’m hopeless and I’m wrong.” We’ve been trained to pair sadness with coldness, pain with weakness, loneliness with unworthiness, difference with disease. It’s as if uncertainty is something not to be felt but to be feared. Well, screw all of that. Screw the fake smiles and the laughs we don’t mean and all the times we say “I’m fine” when really we’re anything but. Screw the fear of crying in front of others, screw the false strength and courage in our voices when we are scared and screw the little lies we tell to cover up our problems. We are HUMAN. We are MEANT to feel, to feel everything and to show it openly. We are not metal – we are merely flesh and bone. We are feeble, we are complex and elusive and we should never hide our humanity. Because if we do, then what do we have left to show?