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I Just Want To Help You

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Chloe McElmury

Jan 30, 2017

Hamline University

Braeden McElmury

My name is Chloe McElmury and I just want to help people on the Internet.

I know I'll never be able to help anyone like a doctor or scientist could. I know those aren't my strong suits.

However, I can't help this overwhelming passion to help. I'm called "mom" a lot by my friends, but it's more than that. I see those around me struggling with mental insecurities and I can't help but want and need to reach out. I have 110 percent been there, and I know it gets better. I know the mindset you get; the feeling that you can't escape it.

I just want to help people. I want to help people expose their authentic selves. I don't believe in "safe spaces", but I want my company to be a safe space to those who let it. It physically pains me to see those I care about hurting, silently or not. Knowing they put up a smiling facade but are clawing themselves up inside. I'm too empathetic not to.

I'm so fortunate to use writing to help people. I can be my honest self, writing about depression and loneliness. If I can make just one person feel not alone, I've done my job. Feeling alone, like no one could possibly understand how you feel, is terrible. It's completely awful. It puts you down a path where you're afraid to reach out to anyone; afraid they'll think you're crazy or overreacting or being selfish. You close yourself off or only remain open to a select few.

I love the honesty of humanity. The tears, the fears, the mindset of each and every individual I meet. It's okay to be messy sometimes. Our emotions can be all over the place. As a friend of mine once said, it's important to recognize that emotions simply move throughus. They are temporary and not necessarily representative of our true selves.

I just want to help people on the Internet, thorough my honest words. I hope it sinks in and reaches the people it needs to. If you are struggling with anything, reach out. It's a hell of a scary first step, but there's someone who will listen and care. Until then, I'll keep trying to write about the honest issues that plague my life, in the unfortunate hopes they haunt yours too. Let me know if there's anything in particular you want to know my thoughts on.

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This article has not been reviewed by Odyssey HQ and solely reflects the ideas and opinions of the creator.

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No one best represents the struggle like our favorite 90s squad.

1. When course schedules are released and you have a conflict between two required classes.

2. When there is only one section of a popular course.

3. Receiving the 18,000 emails reminding you to register ASAP.

4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

When your capability of "adulting" is put to the test

Nobody deserves to be living in poverty.

"Nobody living in one of the most influential nations in the world should be worried about making ends meet."

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What are the states that have set a $15/hour minimum wage?

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Because who understands your bitterness better than April?

1. When you have to provide an "interesting fact" for your first day ice-breaker.

2. When your professor is babbling on and on in his lecture.

3. When you edit your friend's paper and they get an A.

4. When it's 2 AM and you remember you have a test tomorrow.

5. When you finish taking the test and you're pretty sure you failed...

6. ...but then you get the test back and somehow passed.

7. When you've been up for 12 hours straight writing a paper.

8. And then you manage to stay awake in class the next day.

9. When you have to butter up your professor for an extra credit opportunity.

10. When you're assigned a group project.

11. And your group-mates are trying to chat about life instead of the assignment.

12. When it's your last class of the day and you're about to go home.

13. But then you remember rent is due tonight and the anger comes back.

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