To all young people confused, bored, scared, quarantining and etc.
Sometimes I wish I could hug a stuffed animal bear like I used to and all of the bad dreams I had would go away. Unfortunately I’m not six anymore and I’m living in a nightmare that never ends{or at-least it feels that way}. Everyone says things get better but they aren’t now, in fact they’re only getting worse. Everyone wants to believe it will end and things will go back to how they were but how can they go back to how they were if the people that were there aren’t anymore.
I wish this wasn’t what I had to write about, but it is. This is the world everyone lives in and thinks they can escape, but that is just an unfair fantasy. Not only is it unfair but it is placing the false optimism in people that their life is suddenly going to be all sunshine and rainbows when truly it is only going to get worse before you see the clouds clear.
People say there are heroes shining through but are they really just now shining. Weren’t people saving lives before the pandemic? The sad truth is that the healthcare workers did the jobs before the pandemic and we didn’t care a shit because we were all preoccupied with life outside quarantine where everything happening now would seem like a rotten fortune. The health care workers are just working harder and more than they did before which still makes them good people, heroes even. Same goes to say with many others.
I wish we could all open our eyes to see that. To see that we take many things for granted and we don’t even realize it until we lose it. Did it really take millions of people to die to make people realize how fortunate we are? See that is just the world we pretend we don’t live in. We pretend we all care but truthfully only some of us care enough to do something about it.
I wish we didn’t live in a world where that was the truth of how we lived. Yet not everything is a fairy-tale and you don’t always get to wake up a queen or king. So maybe people can do something other than complain about our hair.
Now I might not be right about this but I honestly am curious to know have you ever watched someone do something amazing? Did you think, oh I could’ve done that what makes this person so special? I know I’ve thought that before. Now really could you have done that. I most definitely couldn’t do what that person did. Depending on what the person did changes the response. But it doesn’t change the meaning of the question. See we all think we are amazing and strong and brilliant and most of us have the potential. Some of us have already gotten there. But there are still a lot of us who need to work on that.
We need to stop being stuck up thinking we’re amazing and start realizing what we need to do to become amazing heroes without the flying capes. You need to stop wishing and start making a change to your life, even if it’s small. Even the smallest thing can change someones day.
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