*☁︎·̩͙˚⋆✧ It’s Okay Not To Be Okay ✧˚⋆☁︎·̩͙*

 It’s Okay Not To Be Okay ~

!TW!

|Sensitive content including mental health and self harm. Read at your own risk ⚠️|

“I’m okay.” She forced a smile which was hiding the truth, like she always did. She was reassuring herself more than she was reassuring the others around her. It was easier to say it than do it. She was never okay and deep down she knew it all too well. The pain didn’t lessen but somehow her façade of joy made her believe that it did. That belief was enough for her to go on with her day and smile her bright smile at the people she cherished. She could tell them, let out all the pain she was bearing all alone for years, but was too afraid to burden them with her problems. What if they leave her like everyone else did? What if they think that she is being over dramatic? These thoughts haunted her. She found it better to keep her pain to herself no matter how much someone asks. No one asked her how she was but she asked herself just so she can feel reassured and heard. Looking at the reflection of the once carefree girl who was now the one who was pained by her own wrong choices. All she could do now was force a smile hoping that one day the pain will vanish like it was never there. Hoping that someone will care enough to ask her if she was okay, ask to be the listening ear to her painful problems rather than burdening her with their own. Be the one to pull her out of the corner in which she was hiding for long. But if only she knew that only she could help and protect herself from this cruel world. Maybe if she knew, she wouldn’t be lying cold and lifeless on the bedroom floor with her pain fading into the night.

-Iram