A bright light coming from your nightstand keeps you at bay from sleeping, you’ve been ignoring it for the past half an hour, but you finally decide to take a look. You slowly stretch your arm out towards the cold surface and move your hand carelessly a couple of times trying to grab your phone. Finally, you get a hold of the illuminated apparatus and you bring it back towards you as you slightly sit up on your bed.
At first the bright light blinds you, but as you squint your eyes your vision gets clearer. On the screen it reads:
“Mark: Hey Max you ok?
Amy: “Max what’s wrong? Are you angry with me?
Chris: Hey bro, need to talk?”
These messages bring you back earlier to the party you attended where you spent most of the night sitting on the couch sipping on a cold beer for a short while before leaving. Some of your friends approached you asking if you were sad, mad, worried or anything else of this sort. But nobody bothered asking if you were tired and when you did tell them, they would nonchalantly blurt out an “ok” and walk away.
You can’t stop to think why people would assume that something is wrong and you ask yourself “can anyone be tired anymore?” We wake up early for school or work, stay awake for most of the day thinking of a million things at the same time and sometimes even put in physical work. Then when you finally catch a break to empty your mind, people automatically believe that there is something not right with the way you’re feeling.
Could it be that that Jersey Shore infused the society with the need of drama and attention? Does there have to be a constant conflict in order to be noticed? Nobody can seem to catch a breath once in a while anymore.
Trust me life is great, set your phone and mind on silence once and a while. If people want to control your emotions then let them answer their question and you’ll see that what awaits you ahead is not as bad as it seems
Station Ninety 