Just Take A Minute.

Just woke up from a nap and the thoughts are fading quick but I realized that this world isn’t perfect - obviously. You might mistake these ravings as lunacy from a mad hatter or a sleep deprived rabbit, but bear with me here.

There was a girl, Diana, that graduated from my school last year. She killed herself after sending messages to her friends telling them she loved them. I thought about her for a couple of days and mulled over the fact that her friends couldn’t save her. I heard she had some demons, but it still bothers me to think that her friends couldn’t help her, but why?

And so whoever reads this I want you to know that you are love. No matter what is going on, how hard it gets, who turns away, it doesn’t matter, someone loves you.

Not only that, but other people may being having a difficult time in their life so spread that love to someone else, be kind to someone you hate or don’t know, even just once just because you might change something in them. Do something nice, if trivial, for someone random or talk to someone who looks sad because you might make their day a lot brighter.

I went through a time in my life that I thought was the worst time in my life. I lost my best friend of three years, I found out my boyfriend had used me, I was losing almost all my friends that I had just started loving to have around, we were losing our house, I rejected my father because he’s just not worth my time, and the guy I was truly truly in love with, that I wanted to be with, was on the other side of the world. And I cried, had mental breakdowns, screamed and hated my life, but things turned around.

My love visited me this summer and we are planning to make things work and spend the rest of our lives together. My mom and I might be moving soon, but things are only temporary, until I finish school and move out, then my mom can leave. I made a new friend that is an amazing person. And to top it all off that girl that left me during the hardest time in my life, the girl I loved most out of every friend and wanted as my maid of honor at my wedding, to spend every weekend with bullshitting about random crap, making dinner with and ultimately being my best friend? I talk to her every day. She’s still there, it’s just harder for things to be the way they were. I don’t blame her. She has her own things to work through.

The point to my story is to show that nothing stays the same. There are times when things might be at their hardest for you, but it will change and there are people who are willing to help you, just give them a chance to do it. If someone asks you what’s wrong don’t lie, do not wait for them to see behind the mask because sometimes that mask is perfected and no one sees. Tell them just a small portion of what’s wrong and you never know, they could be your saving grace.

And everyone else, take a minute to listen to that person who tells you something that might be a small piece to a larger puzzle. Be that person who listens, who changes someone’s life because you never know if you will turn save someone who goes on to do something great just by listening.

You are here, while others are not.
You can change someone’s life.
Breathe in.
Breathe out.
Things never stay the same.
Life is not easy, just bear with it for awhile.