To whoever feels alone,

Life can feel incredibly overwhelming at times.

There are times when life can truly feel too much. It can feel as if everything is out of control and there's nothing we can do to help ourselves. This overwhelming feeling is scary, but what we don't realize is everyone goes through it. Everyone has anxieties and fears.

I'm one who finds myself bottling my feelings up way too often. Every second of the day, I feel like I'm struggling and cannot let anyone know. Why? My biggest fear is misunderstanding. How could anyone possibly understand the complexity that is my brain? It seems so complex, but in reality, most people feel the same way.

I write this inspired by a friend of mine who had given me some advice recently. I am not one to complain or even express too many negative emotions, but recently, I had broken down in complete and utter sadness. It was not caused by anything in particular, but it just had gotten to a point that it had been held in too long.

I told my friend my worries and my anxieties, which I had never verbally shared with anyone. To my relief, she had told me that everybody gets anxiety, and everybody feels the same insecurities I had described. She ensured me that I was not alone and I had no reason to feel that way.

When things get so overwhelming and anxiety-inducing, it can be so hard not to feel alone. This feeling of lonesomeness is not necessarily felt in a physical sense exactly, but rather as a mental sense. The feeling that you are so alone in your way of thinking is what's consuming you. It can truly feel as if not another soul in the world feels the same way; that can make us feel alone.

Though, if we can step out of our brain for a moment and find a new perspective, we would see that everybody around us has just complex thoughts and a way of thinking as we feel we do. We are blinded by our own suffering, that we do not realize that we are not the only ones who feel this way.

Do not be like me and bottle up your emotions until they overfill in your brain and explode in a form of a mental breakdown. Communicate and talk to others when you are feeling overwhelmed, and you'll realize how many people you can relate to and understand. The feeling of being understood is so helpful in so many cases, but the only way to reach that understanding is by reaching out and communicating.

Don't be scared; we're all just as complex as each other.