About

Mental health has been something I’ve struggled with my enitre life. It has always felt like my brain betrays me with negative thoughts, emotions, low points, and every trick it knows to make me suffer in my own head.

I’ve always had the strong desire to show compassion to those going through their lowest points. Ever since I was young I would deeply sympathize with sorrow-filled people because I knew exactly what it was like to be them. I knew what it was like to go about your day pretending to be fine while something was going on that mentally destroyed you. I’ve lived all those lonely, miserable nights stuck in your own negative thoughts. I’ve cried out to god, I’ve begged for just one positive thing to happen. I’ve hit low points that truly broke me as a human being and I had no option but to face them alone each time.

The idea to start this project has always been an idea in my mind, I’ve always wanted to help others in their lowest moments. I would go through something soul destroying and the idea of helping others would run through my mind but I would eventually brush it off. Then something even worse would happen and the idea would return once again. Finally, I had something happen to me that absolutely devasted me. There was no salvaging it or preventing the mental damage it was doing to me. I had to face it, alone, just like all the times before.

I truly struggled with why these moments kept happening in quick succession. Why was I doomed to these horrible constant occurrences that continuously broke me? It was at that moment that I realized it was because I needed to do this. I kept brushing off helping others so the universe kept throwing me back in the fire in order to cement it into my head and make this happen. This is when I realized that my purpose in life is to encourage others and offer hope to those going through the same miserable moments that I went through.

Along with this, I feel it is incredibly important that I spread the idea of having compassion. Compassion, by definition, is “sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others.” I feel that many people act in ways that devastate others, whether they know it or not. If people were to just think about how their actions may make others feel, maybe a lot of hurt and mental anguish would never occur.

The absolute second I confirmed this vision, I felt some relief. I wasn’t fully ridden of the mental gloom and I’m still not to this day, however, this is something fulfilling and positive to work towards. It turned my negative thinking from “I’m so low” to “I can use this pain to encourage others.”

I believe I was put here for this purpose, as we all probably are in some way. If I can provide writing, content, or helpful words to anyone who is in the same dark corners I’m always in then all of this