Things I wish I knew before turning 18.

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             3.
      ~Can you see me?

It's hard to open up s heart but I find it both fascinating and terrifying that everyone has their own story to tell and yet we barely manage to catch the smallest glimpses of them. We judge someone on what we think we know about them, and it hardly ever occurs to us that the only thing we really know is the way people present themselves to others. We only ever get to see the good parts they decide to show us..it's like we meet people who cheated and others who were cheated on, we talk to people who buried their darkest secrets so deep in their hearts, they wonder why they poison them from within, we talk about the most basic things, but we never learn that these people may still suffer, maybe that they lost the love of their life..that they wish they had someone to talk to about these kind of things, the relevant things, the strokes of fate and tragedies that really make us who we are and shape us as people. Strangers you've never met could have gone through the same thing you did. People you've known all your life could be struggling to hold on, to keep fighting and you'd never know...It's frightening, isn't it? We only ever see what others want us to see, and  that's why we shouldn't be so quick to judge..
After all maybe your heart isn't ready to write the words you know to be true,writing when your sad is easy..words  flow like rivers, your pen is your weapon and bleeding ink is better than blood, but most of the time the ink hurts worse.