Beyond Reasonable Doubt

“There’s always someone better off than you, and there’s always someone worse off than you” quoted by C.L. Hall.

That leads to the question, what about me? Where do I stand? There should be no such thing as comparing, for everyone is fighting a battle only they are strong enough for.

Everyone’s pain and everyone’s journey is legitimate. Saying otherwise is saying like saying they don’t matter, and that you are better than them.

Never should there be doubt in one’s mine of “I’m weak for feeling my pain because some have it worse”.

Why does it matter who has it better or worse? Furthermore who are we to judge and make such a conclusion?

Life is full of pain, and whether you have accepted it or not, you are human. I don’t believe in that kind of fantasy where some are lucky enough not to experience the heart pulling, gut wrenching feeling of agony, of hurt.

People can pretend all that they want, but life is life and humans are humans. We are made with flaws, and created with our own personalized set of weaknesses.

So much of life is pretending we are okay, that the stress of the world is not falling on our shoulders, making it hard to walk with our head held high and our shoulders strong and steady. Majority of our efforts is not put into living, but into surviving.

Who wants to live in survival mode? No one. It’s normal to tune out what we don’t want to hear. Though those that are tuned out don’t always tune in at the right times. They don’t listen to the right signs, see the beauty in the everyday human life. Because there is beauty in everyday, and that’s one of the greatest aspects of being human.

Don’t think you’re weak because people have it worse because there’s no such thing. You were given what you can handle, and that’s more than you will ever need. There’s no scale to measure pain, so don’t start creating one based on societies words. It’s background noise, that’s all it is.

At times life will get chaotic, that gut wrenching feeling will come, again and again. And each time it will hurt more than before. Don’t let that stop you, let it strengthen you. As hard and impossible as that sounds, you made it through so far, so don’t let the doubt hold you back. Mind over matter, you are strong and your feelings matter.

You’ve done it before, you can do it again. So beyond reasonable doubt, you got this.