I've just had one of those moments where you find exactly the thing you need to find... Read this, and I hope that if you need it, it'll help- if you don't, maybe it'll still give you something to think about. This poet is phenomenal.
There will be bad days. Be calm. Loosen your grip, opening each palm
slowly now. Let go. Be confident. Know that now is only a moment, and
that if today is as bad as it gets, understand that by tomorrow, today
will have ended. Be gracious. Accept each extended hand offered, to pull
you back from the somewhere you cannot escape. Be diligent. Scrape the
gray sky clean. Realize every dark cloud is a smoke screen meant to
blind us from the truth, and the truth is whether we see them or not -
the sun and moon are still there and always there is light. Be
forthright. Despite your instinct to say "it's alright, I'm okay" - be
honest. Say how you feel without fear or guilt, without remorse or
complexity. Be lucid in your explanation, be sterling in your oppose. If
you think for one second no one knows what you've been going through;
be accepting of the fact that you are wrong, that the long drawn and
heavy breaths of despair have at times been felt by everyone - that pain
is part of the human condition and that alone makes you a legion. We
hungry underdogs, we risers with dawn, we dissmisser's of odds, we
blesser's of on – we will station ourselves to the calm. We will hold
ourselves to the steady, be ready player one. Life is going to come at
you armed with hard times and tough choices, your voice is your weapon,
your thoughts ammunition – there are no free extra men, be aware that as
the instant now passes, it exists now as then. So be a mirror
reflecting yourself back, and remembering the times when you thought all
of this was too hard and you'd never make it through. Remember the
times you could have pressed quit – but you hit continue. Be forgiving.
Living with the burden of anger, is not living. Giving your focus to
wrath will leave your entire self absent of what you need. Love and hate
are beasts and the one that grows is the one you feed. Be persistent.
Be the weed growing through the cracks in the cement, beautiful -
because it doesn't know it's not supposed to grow there. Be resolute.
Declare what you accept as true in a way that envisions the resolve with
which you accept it. If you are having a good day, be considerate. A
simple smile could be the first-aid kit that someone has been looking
for. If you believe with absolute honesty that you are doing everything
you can - do more. There will be bad days, Times when the world weighs
on you for so long it leaves you looking for an easy way out. There will
be moments when the drought of joy seems unending. Instances spent
pretending that everything is alright when it clearly is not, check your
blind spot. See that love is still there, be patient. Every nightmare
has a beginning, but every bad day has an end. Ignore what others have
called you. I am calling you friend. Make us comprehend the urgency of
your crisis. Silence left to its own devices, breed's silence. So speak
and be heard. One word after the next, express yourself and put your
life in the context – if you find that no one is listening, be loud.
Make noise. Stand in poise and be open. Hope in these situations is not
enough and you will need someone to lean on. In the unlikely event that
you have no one, look again. Everyone is blessed with the ability to
listen. The deaf will hear you with their eyes. The blind will see you
with their hands. Let your heart fill their news-stands, Let them read
all about it. Admit to the bad days, the impossible nights. Listen to
the insights of those who have been there, but come back. They will tell
you; you can stack misery, you can pack disappear you can even wear
your sorrow – but come tomorrow you must change your clothes. Everyone
knows pain. We are not meant to carry it forever. We were never meant to
hold it so closely, so be certain in the belief that what pain belongs
to now will belong soon to then. That when someone asks you how was your
day, realize that for some of us – it's the only way we know how to
say, be calm. Loosen your grip, opening each palm, slowly now – let go.