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To The One Who Is Feeling Crestfallen:

October 5, 2021
By Anonymous

Hey!

Having a good day?
You must be wondering what a freakish chap I am, asking a Crestfallen Heart with a paradoxical-
"Having a good day?"
I know you are already infuriated and broken from inside, the measure of which I shall never be capable of deciphering, nor do I know the unit of summing the magnitude of swirling emotions which roar inside you and yet, makes you feel so void at the same time…but I want you to think of something. I want you to feel it.

Think of the moment when you opened your eyes this morning as the first rays of sunshine kissed your cheeks and the breeze caressed your hair. Could you recall the fight you had last night with a loved one?
Or were you even thinking of the competition you lost? “Loser”, “Arrogant”, “ Selfish”, “Good For Nothing”- were these words still ringing in your ears?
They weren’t right?...for that one moment, weren’t you feeling like the happiest person on Earth, dressed in a shining rainbow armour full of energy, all set to conquer Life?
Can’t you try and think the same way again? For the whole day? They say time heals it, maybe it’ll heal this too?
This lasted. It did, until you saw your swollen eyes and crimson cheeks, which made you question your existence again as the pain from your eyes mixed thoroughly, undistinguished with the drops that fell from the shower. How meaningless they must have felt, right?
I often wish we had a “Delete” button in our brain. That’s naïve, but do you wish for the same?
They say whatever it is, it’ll get better, but what about You? Trust me, whether it gets better or not, You will.
I might sound insensitive but I want you to look at things from a different view, maybe from the eyes of a resident in the parallel universe, where you are just a stranger like me, unaware of your anguish.
Look around-
At the Rays of the Sun, a New Morning, the Chirping of Birds, the Dreams which reflect through your Bright Eyes, that Smile when you wake up each Day, they’re all there for you, when you’re not alone, but even when you are lonely.
They want to make you smile, show you some light towards the path that ceases you from ‘surviving’ this beauty called Life, It makes you Dream with open eyes to grab your Shiny Rainbow Armour and conquer each day of your Life with ebullience.
The Tears are not there as a memoir of Pain- They are there to wash away the swollen eyes and crimson cheeks of despair. Your Sleep is not there to give you mere Nightmares, it’s there, waiting for you to click the “Refresh” button, as I must say, the “Delete” button can be quite defective. The swirls roaring inside are not to make you feel void, they are there to test you, maybe break a bit inside so that you can rebuild a stronger self, giving you an opportunity to be all that you intended to be.
I know it’s easier said than done, but let’s just give it a try?
I know you won’t fail because you TRIED atleast.
I know it’s hard but deep inside even you want to be a naked soul that can annihilate all barriers of expression. So go on, take a paper, make a card, prepare a speech or take out your phone, scribble something and unabashedly let people know of what you feel. Give them a hug, be vulnerable. Fight your fears, because maybe this time it won’t hurt.
I know I speak a lot, and often I don’t make sense. But in case I did this time, know that you aren’t alone, there’s an expanse of quicksand followed by abyss inside each one, of us. It’s hard to cross the quicksand, but if you do, not only do you prevent yourself from falling into the abyss, but you lend a hand too and I have faith in you.
I know You CAN.
We live once, and gladly we don’t Respawn. So why not feel all the shades at once which keep mutating like the blinking fairy lights?
I hope this helped :)

Yours Truly,
A Stranger who knows that you have a ‘Drop-dead, gorgeous’ Smile



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