# # ⁏ IT’S GOING TO BE OKAY! ⟨ read me ⟩ ↷ for those who are struggling to exist right now, thank you for living another day。 ꓺ ♡ ꓺ
♡ ⁏ I may not know you, but I know where you are. I’ve been in that place, the place where you’re standing this very second, or the one you may not have the strength to even stand in anymore. It’s that spot that we all get stuck in if we live and love long enough; that suffocating, hopeless, heavy place called “ NOT OKAY. “
♡ ⁏ Sometimes we see it all coming from a long way off. Sometimes the ominous clouds gather far in the distance, and as much as we try to look away or run away or pray it away, it hits us anyway; cruel and relentless in its fury.
♡ ⁏ Right now the worst is happening, and you feel like it’s never going to end. What’s important is that you remember that where you are is temporary, and tomorrow is going to be better. There are people who love you. They loved you before your greatness and they’ll love you after this terrible catastrophe. You are deserving of this love, regardless of how much of what’s happening is your doing.
♡ ⁏ While you wait for it to be okay, remember all the reasons that the world is blessed to have you here. Think of all the times you’ve made people smile — the man at the grocery store, your neighbor during garbage night and the woman at work you talk to even when you’re tired. Think of all the times you did the right thing, the best thing, the thing we needed done. Think of times when it went right and when it felt good. Think of the times when things will go right again.
♡ ⁏ I know that from where you stand this may sound trivial, even insulting to your ears. It may seem like a cheap, hollow platitude right now, but it’s the truest truth I can give you to sustain you:
♡ ⁏ It’s gonna be okay.
♡ ⁏ You’ll see colors and hear songs and see faces, and they’ll all seem like effusive love letters; words of truth spoken directly to your heart, telling you that life is indeed a good and worthwhile endeavor—and you’ll eat-up every delicious word.
♡ ⁏ But in the meantime, before you get there, I want to tell you one more important thing about where you are right now: It’s okay to not be okay. It’s alright to admit it to yourself, and to say it to someone else. In fact, doing so isn’t admitting defeat at all. It isn’t giving-up. It’s simply consenting, to fully feeling the reality of the despair and the pain of the moment.
♡ ⁏ As you do, just remember that you won’t feel like that forever.
