Be strong...

Is it that hard to be strong? I wonder…

Every day I read like a thousand times and everywhere the same lines: “When you become weak is because you’ve been strong for too long” or something like that and I wonder how many of those people posting those lines everywhere really know about being strong.

It’s so tiring to be strong 365 days.  But what else to do when people around you need you to keep strong? What to do when you look them in their eyes and are asking “be strong for me” ?

And you breath deeply and decide to keep being strong again, one more second, one more minute, one more day… And when you’re about to break, you recall that those people around you need you. So you keep pretending.

So you draw your smile while you comb your hair and you feel how every breath you take burns inside, like fire. You open your mouth to kill a scream because you don’t even have strength to scream and without realizing, you close yourself, like in a shell.

So you start lying to everyone around you, saying you’re ok and you learn to joke when what you really want is to curl in your bed and forget that the world exists. And when the sun rises, you put the “be strong” mask and just pray for someone to realize that you’re crumbling and for once in your life, hope that someone can be strong for you.