The Adulthood Facade
Image from stormseeker on Unsplash Welcome to Limitless! ~ I doff my hat to we “up and coming” adults. Camera-ready smiles aside; personally, these past months have been so tough on me emotionally. I can’t even count the number of breakdowns and random bathroom tears I’ve had. I was standing at a bus-stop one sunny day, and I saw a young lady walking by, literally about to burst into tears. It disappeared at the speed of lightning when she noticed I was staring. I low-key wished I could give her a big hug regardless of the fact that her expression mirrored exactly how I was feeling, and I didn’t even have my own self together. It hurt me a lot to know that so many young adults might be bottling their emotions with a happy “I’m okay” facade. Maybe I was a bit lucky that I had some friends who I could blatantly tell that I wasn’t fine when they asked how I was. I remember telling one of my friends to ask me again in September 🤣 . How bizarre? This adu...