millennial matters
by cutter slage
is hard, but it’s also necessary to realize that everyone has struggles, and those struggles are all distinct. I mean, is Oprah currently strug- gling? Probably not. Yet, she did at one time, and who’s to say that being so rich is that great? My point: Your struggle may look nothing like your best friend’s struggle or a co-worker’s struggle. That’s OK. There’s no reason to compare struggles; it’s not a competition. No prizes will be handed out. Additionally, what I struggle with, you may not struggle with, and so on and so on. You get the idea. For me, one of the biggest struggles I’ve had to face in my life — thus far, of course — is heartbreak. Now, you may think I have an easy
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YOU’RE NOT OK - AND THAT’S OK
ife is hard, right? Let’s just go ahead and get that out of the way now. Life is hard — it’s fucking hard — and in various ways for various people. Regardless of who you are, what you do or what you have, you’ve likely faced some sort of struggle or roadblock during your journey, thus far, anyway.
Not only is it important to understand, maybe even accept that life
life or a superficial life, if heartbreak immediately comes to mind as one of my most significant struggles. Nevertheless, I stand by my revelation. Heartbreak, like life, is hard. Fucking hard. As many of you already know, there is no true cure for heartbreak (or hangovers, but that’s a whole other topic). No pill to swallow, no shot, no type of surgery to make the sharp, nagging pain of heartbreak go away. The pain is so uncomfortable — unbearable, really — that you want to somehow distract yourself from it by clawing at your skin or ripping out your hair. Anything to give you just a millisecond of relief from that raw, piercing pain. Simply put, when I’m going through heartbreak, I’m not OK — and
that’s OK. It has to be OK. Why? Because life doesn’t let us take time off for heartbreak. When you stop and think about it, life doesn’t let us take time off for any type of struggle. The last time you struggled — however or whatever that looked like — what did you do? How did you handle it? Chances are, you went on living your life despite not being OK. That’s what we do.
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