I look around at the world and all I can think about when I encounter someone is what pain lies behind their eyes. I know that sometimes the easiest way to get through the day is to put on that smile that allows you to pretend for a while that your life isn’t really your life. The smile that lets everyone look right past whatever conflict you are dealing with and see what they really want to see.
Everyone has battles, and scars, and heartbreaks that are easier to pretend aren’t there than confront them head on. We all know that there are secrets we have we prefer not to talk to anyone else about, but are there those secrets too we don’t even let ourselves process? Secrets that are so dark and deep that we have pretended for so long they didn’t exist that now you aren’t so sure they did? And even if you are sure, you still pretend they didn’t happen because it makes life easier. Will the secrets we keep from ourselves ever catch up with us?
