The Art Of Our Thoughts

The thing about being okay

"Being okay is what most people settle for, myself included, and we pretend that okay is fine, when we actually hate it and we spend majority of our time waiting to break out of just being okay." ~Anna Todd

The word 'okay' or 'fine' has turned out to have such a bigger underlying meaning almost every time someone says it.

I guess in a world full of tragedies and traumas the word okay seems simple enough to show you how not okay the person saying it is.

We want to be okay though, like really okay, even happy if I dare take it a bit further.

I think we're all tired of the sinking feelings, the heartbreak, the anxiety, the sadness, we just want to break out of that.

We want to answer truthfully when someone asks us how we are or how we're feeling, but the truth is painful when it's a sad one.

That's why we never say it, because, if to put it in a demonstration, saying the truth about how we're feeling is like taking a small knife, carving our hearts out with it, and giving it to you to see how scarred it really is.

It's crazy how many of us are waiting to break out of our 'okay', of our 'fine', of our 'I'm good',

And the day we actually feel okay, and feel good, these aren't the words we'll be using to describe how we feel.

I promise you we will rant for five minutes about how amazing it feels to be happy and at peace.

Because that's all we want, we want to be happy, and sleep at night without drenching our pillows.
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Dedicated to: My close friend that's going through a lot right now, and seems to always answer with 'I'm okay'

-S.S.