People Like Us

Well, I guess the title should be people like me, but I’m going out on a limb in saying I’m certainly not the only one. We are the ones who feel EVERY damn thing; hate, love, empathy, sympathy, you name it, we feel it in our soul. Yet, we never let anyone know it. Why? Well, we are the ones who are always strong for others. Letting them see us break would be detrimental to them. But, what about us? Who do we turn to in our moments of weakness, of grief, of distress. What about people like us? The ones who are too often taken for granted despite laying everything on the line for everyone else. We don’t make time for ourselves because we spend every ounce of energy feeling everything for everyone. We feel so alone at the end of each day as the thoughts come rushing to us as we lay awake at night. Could we have done more? Should we have done less? How did so and so deal with this? But what about people like us? Who is worrying about the people like us? We wake up each day after tossing and turning all night, just to do it all again. Often times forcing a smile to play it cool for those around us who need us to be strong. We have so much to be proud of, but feeling too much pride in ourselves isn’t part of our M.O. People like us want others to feel that pride for us as we do them, unfortunately it’s all too often not reciprocated. Don’t fret, people like us have learned to keep our armor on, we will continue to fight the good fight.