Self Stature.

To be happy, it first takes being comfortable being in your own shoes. The rest can work up from there. The hardest situation to stay happy, I think, is when you’re trying to find love, and yourself at the same time. It just doesn’t seem to fit well. So I believe that happiness is being able to wake up and just know that this is what you wanted, and not what somebody else wanted.

-Sophia Bush

Pangs.

I could write novels about pain. Not the kind of pain you get when you break your arm, but the kind that makes your broken heart go into your throat, so that it takes all of your energy and concentration to breathe. The kind of pain that makes you want to scream & sob at the same time. The kind of pain that makes you want to hurt everyone around you because you’re suffering & they’re not, because they can breathe without feeling guilty & hold a normal conversation without breaking down into fits of tears or rage. A pain that bites it’s tongue and nods acceptably when asked if okay.

Thy Naked Heart.

How can anyone be afraid of love?


How can they not?


When you love someone... truly love them, friend or lover,
you lay yr heart open to them.
You give them a part of yrself that you give to no one else,
and you let them inside a part of you that only they can hurt you
literally hand them the razor with a map of where to cut deepest
and most painfully on yr heart and soul.


And when they do strike, it's crippling-like having yr heart carved out.
It leaves you naked and exposed, wondering what did you make them
want to hurt you so badly when all you did was love them.


What's so wrong with you that no one can keep faith with you?
That no one can love you?


To have it happen once is bad enough... but to have it repeated?
Who in their right mind would not be terrified of that?

- Devil May Cry : Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark

Escapism.

Social Studies: Life is Hard and You Will Die, Get Over It

The reason why this will lead to depression, where it may not have done so for an equivalent person 200 years ago, is because you were raised on illogical stories where things always work out for the main character for utterly arbitrary reasons. Han Solo can shoot straight, but none of the bad guys can--even though they train more. If a guy and a girl are right for each other, they always wind up together, careers and geography and personal hang-ups be damned.

Here's the problem: these fantasies were created by adults, as a means of escape from the real world. You, however, have been watching them since you were five--for most of us these were our first impressions of how the adult world works, even if on a subconscious level. You had no context to realize they were bullshit. It sounds frivolous, but that doesn't change the fact that some of you reading this will not survive the long process of learning how different the real world is.