The Darkest Parts of You
March 9, 2023
We live in a society where it’s frowned upon to be alone
We live in a society where we collapse the second were given adversity
We constantly have to be distracting ourselves
Its like we are trying to save ourselves from ourselves
Its better to have a dollar bill instead of 4 quarters
How well do you know yourself
What are the things you know to be true about yourself but you choose to ignore
Why did that one thing in particular jolt into your mind and why do you push it away as fast as it appeared. Hell, it happens to me every time I read this
There is no light without darkness
And it is a shame to keep parts of you locked away and ignored
Cows run away from storms, They know it’s inevitable and they will eventually be swallowed up
The funny part is they know the sun is on the other side of the storm
The light is on the other side of the darkness
But yet they deliberately choose every single time, to run away from the darkness
And when the herd tries to escape the dark by running towards light, burnout is inevitable
Buffalo, though they have such poor eyesight do the opposite of the cows
You are exactly right, they run towards the storm
Its nuts you might think
Why would something deliberately charge into the darkness and the unknown?
Because the buffalo also knows the light on the other side and it knows they can only escape the darkness for so long
The sooner you go through the storm,the sooner you come out of it
You have made it through every single bad day that you have had
That in itself is worth something
Bruised,battered and beaten, you can still win
Everything is temporary
Your emotions are a river that flow freely
Come and go
Up and down
Things change
But one thing is for certain
You will always be you
What keeps me up at night
Perhaps it is a monster that keeps me up at night
Waiting,creeping,lurking in the shadows patiently waiting for me to slip up
It whispers in the wind telling me I am not good enough
Telling me I am not doing enough
My body is exhausted,but my mind cannot help but wander and drift
The voices in my head grow ever so louder
These thoughts consume me at all times of the day
Playing on a loop
They sulk in the shadows
Making me isolate myself
Second guess myself
I do not know if its a war against myself
Or a war on mediocrity
Fighting each and every day to be better than yesterday
I pick apart every piece of me and put it back together
Trying to ignore the parts of me that I do not like
Attacking them,rooting them
When one weed dies,3 more fill their place
So i guess naturally there is only one thing to do
Keep on keeping on I guess
Keep hoping that something changes
If I am walking through hell, I may as well smile