Five

“Maybe I was wrong” we all began to think to ourselves. There is something more to the girl across the room. We began to see each other through less envious eyes. Maybe her life wasn’t so perfect. Maybe there was a reason for the way she dressed or spoke. Each of us was slowly able to see beyond the make-up, the act, or the disconnection. But society keeps us quiet, society tells us it is not okay to reach out to someone who is seemingly so different from you. But in the end, day after day, we each conform to what the other believes of us. We become how we are viewed instead of who we really are. A cycle is created, a current formed and we pretend to be the people we were yesterday.

- Is there a person in your life that you wish you could talk to; but you don’t?