Lilly

A reminder to myself: Time is relentless.

When my legs are dragging and I feel like I can’t take another step, the clock still ticks. While I fidget in the last class of the day, thinking of all the homework I’ll have when I get home, time goes on. When I toss and turn in bed, unable to sleep, or when I’m anxious and I lean against a wall to feel its solidity, I must remind myself that every single moment will pass.

In moments of anxiety or pain or despair, it’s not easy to think clearly. It feels like I can’t think loud enough to drown out everything else in my head. I don’t need to be told to “take deep breaths,” or “just calm down.” I’m already telling myself that, shouting it to myself in my mind, desperate to be heard above the commotion. All I need to know in moments like that is that those moments will end. I can keep good ones in my memories and find solace in the fact that the bad ones will fade eventually.

Life goes on. ♦