INSPIRE
IT’S OKAY TO NOT BE OKAY. By Cosette Awad
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Once, someone told me “You’re funny; who hurt you?” And I realized that not every time we take the pain and cry, sometimes it’s the opposite. We wear our smiles and pretend that the world around us isn’t falling apart. I thought when we lie “that white lie” and we say, “I’m okay.” when we aren’t, it’s heavier than telling the truth but we still don’t want to worry the people we love.
some are strong at the broken places.” No one is born to endure pain, but we live we learn and life will give us more hardships and we will survive them all so we can reach our goals and dreams, and it’s from a personal opinion I’m talking, because of everything that happened to me, all the tragedies, all the losses, everything I wished for that I didn’t need and didn’t as much as the ones that happened, that lead me to where I am now, for being halfway through where I need to be in the future.
We adapt; we cope with pain, each one in his own way, some of us bury our wounds, and some of us show them and grow. We hide, but never from ourselves. We don’t have to be strong all the time, we are allowed to break down and fall apart. As Hemmingway said, “The world breaks everyone, and afterward,
It’s okay to not want to move from bed for a day or two, to want to be left alone for a while, to process grief, a break-up, to have to say goodbye over and over again to people in our lives, the pain of losing someone is indescribable, who doesn’t have painful experiences? But they are memories now, we
t’s okay to not be okay. I’ve heard this a thousand times.
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fight to get through them, and we live. Adapting to change needs courage. Some days I’m on the urge of giving up, and some days I fight even more. Have I made it alone? No, it was always the people around me, and the inspiring people I read about, the series and documentaries I watched, books I held so dear. Everything in life inspired me, but it wasn’t always this way, sometimes I didn’t want to hear a sound, I couldn’t look at a screen, and I didn’t want to understand that it’s not constant what I’m feeling, that no one is unbreakable, and we all called ourselves defeated at least once in this life. At times nothing makes sense, not even when someone tells us that everything will be okay. We question ourselves a thousand times, “How will it be, okay? How can I survive this? You
