I am not a graceful
person.
I am not a Sunday morning or a
Friday sunset. I am a Tuesday 2am, I am gunshots muffled by a
few city blocks, I am a broken window during February. My bones
crack on a nightly basis. I fall from elegance with a dull
thud, and I apologize for my awkward sadness. I sometimes
believe I don't belong around people, that I belong to all
the leap days that didn't happen. The way light and
darkness mix under my skin has become a storm.
You don't see the
lightening, but you hear the
echoes.
People think depression
is sadness.
People think depression is
crying. People think depression is dressing in black. But
people are wrong. Depression is the constant feeling of being
numb. Being numb to emotions, being numb to lie. You wake up in
the morning just to go back to bed again. Days aren't
really days; they are just annoying obstacles that need to be
faced. And how do you face them? Through medication, through
drinking, through smoking, through drugs, through cutting. When
you're depressed, you grasp on to anything that can get
through the day. That's what depression is, not sadness or
tears, it's the overwhelming sense of numbness and the
desire for anything that can help you make it
from one day to the
next.