Are you who you say you are?

We should take a lesson from our dear old Queen B, Miss Blair Waldorf. Through all her maniacal scheming and uncontrolled compulsions to meddle in things that do not concern her, she can teach us a very important lesson about love and loyalty: You never give up on the people you love. 
How many times have we called someone our best friend and abandoned them when they really needed us? No one would want to admit it, but we all know we've done it. I'm sorry if you out there believe I am a little too cynical for you, but I only see the things people really are. Most of us are so stuck in Kohlberg's Conventional stage of moral reasoning that we do not see how important it is to be there for the people you claim you love.
Well, that bears the question: do you really love those people that you've so vehemently claimed to love? That's something to think about.

Assessing the Damage

I like to look at myself in mirror, 

Call it...assessing the damage.

I like to catalog how big the bags under my eyes are...

the way the darkness spreads all the way around...

the frown lines...

the dry skin...

It's funny to think that one can see pain written all over the face,

the frown that can't truly be hidden with a smile.

The sadness in the eyes as they laugh,

It's always there, present.

The sadness never does go away. It is like a cloud that is perpetually above.