ButtonPoetry

https://cicimoon6.home.blog/2019/09/18/the-future-by-neil-hilborn/

Why have I chosen to be open about my anxiety, you ask?

Because the world hides behind a mask of fake happiness

Because uncomfortable subjects are avoided like a plague.

Because I believe that how I was treated when I was younger was wrong.

Because I would never want a child to endure feeling like their needs don’t matter.

Because if I tell people what I need, it’s more likely to happen

Because a child shouldn’t be made to feel bad for having a bad day.

Because I’m enraged when I hear a parent say to a child “What is wrong with you?”

Because it took me until I was 19 to understand that having these feelings are normal, it’s just when they become a roadblock to success that’s the problem.

Because I want people to know that they can come to me for empathy and understanding.

Because I believe in an inherent human desire to reach out and I choose to start that fire.

Because I believe that people are good and want to help

I choose to be open because that choice saved me from a worse fate.

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