15/05/2020
"YOU”- Manisha Bhaskar Verma
You are not the person you see when you look up into the mirror. You are not that perfectly made up face with lustrous hair reaching your shoulder in soft curls. You are not the face sporting that perfect beard after No-Shave November.You are not defined by how many people have fallen in love with you. What defines you, is how many times you have loved, and how deeply.You are defined by how many times you have held open a raw wound for everyone to examine your bleeding insides.You are defined by how fast you blink your eyes to hold back your tears when you are a shivering mess in your room, how wide you smile when you meet someone you don’t even like or can’t even remember the name of.
You are defined by how easily you let go and sometimes by how tight you hold on to something.You are not the perfectly happy person you seem to be. You are the person with tears streaming down the face late at night when the demons gnaw at your skin from the inside, threatening to break free.....
I know you are scared that no one will ever fall in love with you if they see you for what you are. You are scared that people who are so awestruck by the sparkle in your eyes might never as much as look at you if they don’t find out that its tears of sadness that cause your eyes to shine.You are scared that your best friend will block you on all social media if they find out that your favorite hobby is making lists of people who will cry when you die, and you never manage to think of more than seven names.....
But i want you to ask yourself a question “ARE YOU REALLY HAPPY THIS WAY??”
If the answer is “no” the next time you stand in front of the mirror and see someone you don’t want to be, don’t hesitate wash off the make up. Don’t bother to put on a smile in the morning if you don’t feel like..If you are tired of being a calm lake, be a hurricane...Be yourself, for a change...Be the self that you have always been so scared to show, the self that is all messed up, and breathtakingly beautiful!!!!!😊😊