We ALL fought, learned, changed, grew stronger, and hoped!

We all are fighting, all day, all time. Some are fighting bad bosses, fighting work pressures, fighting bitter breakups, and fighting their dreams! Some are fighting with others, some without those others! Some with themselves and some have already given up!

We all fought!

But in all this process, we all grew up a little, isn’t it? We all learned to ACCEPT and SURVIVE! We learned to deal with the feeling of being rejected, with the hopelessness of not being loved back, the anxiety of hearing the truth about ourselves, the effort of putting ourselves back together, and if there was no one in sight, even patting our own backs just to keep the morale high!

We all learned!

We started pretending, we faked ourselves, we got overwhelmed, and eventually managed to pull off with a little more controlled behavior. Finally, when we thought we got this mask of pretention for the war with everything, we thought we became so cool, but oops! In all this process, we changed, and we changed a lot!

We all changed!

Just like a soldier returns to his camp after that long day of guarding the territory, we got back home, to ourselves, to our real selves at the end of the day and thought what the hell we were doing? We managed a great face all through the day but hello! What about now! I myself know the reality and how am I going to fight that? So, we wore another mask — the mask of strength! We soothed ourselves, did things that we really liked, being with people who loved us even when we totally ignored them, we ate the way we liked and as much as we liked, we wrote whatever crap to our minds but cooled it off! We looked horrible but felt wonderful!

We all became strong!

And then we all got ready to fight once more if we have to with the hope of being prepared for the next war, keep our masks handy so that we are not searching them around if the war is on without the bigul, and exhaled “this too shall pass.”

We all hoped for better!