Happy new year.
By all means, to all who celebrate and are hopeful, grateful, I am happy for all of you, I really am. I want you to know this before I go any further. Cheers for the year that we just overcame and the year we are about to face thereof.
A toast for the lucky ones. Cheers for the heart that are happy or were sad but are now happy. To those that were able to make ends meet, and the people who are blessed I am with you all. I will sit down with you if given the chance but thats not why I am writing today.
I’m writing this for the sake of the people who are inside of their rooms right now. Where today is just a day that will pass them by. The people who don’t know what to do next; those who are stagnating. The people who feel like a stranger inside their own homes. The ones that are not included in family gatherings let alone the family pictures. All the photographs they will miss today that they can never go back to. Stories they cant tell, fireworks they missed. Joy and laughter that they never gave themselves a chance to.
I’m writing this for the sake of the people who won’t say what they feel nor show them because we are told that we are supposed to be happy on these times of celebration. Tomorrow, they will be bombarded by people telling them that its a new year, you gotta pull your shit together, and figure what youre supposed to do as if you havent been doing that exact same thing for the year, maybe years that have passed by.
I am writing this for you so you would know that its okay. It’s okay if you still dont know what to do tomorrow or you still cant figure out your shit. I don’t know how long you have been trying your mess but you see, thats the most important thing, you are trying. Even if people will tell you that its not okay, that youre taking too long to figure it out wherein other people solved the same problem you had overnight, dont listen to them; its okay. Maybe they didnt have it just as rough as you did or maybe, they did but if you cant figure it out, as long as youre trying, you will figure it out. Maybe not sooner but later but I am sure you will. As long as you are trying.
So for now, I am happy for you in surviving yet another year. Inside the corners of your room, Keep trying. It doesnt matter how slow, the truth is, you will get there, too. Cheers for the year you just survived and the year you are about to face thereof
A toast for the unlucky ones. To the broken-hearted, to those who failed to achieve their dreams this year, the plans altered, life a little messed up, to the sad ones and the lonely ones, Especially those who still hide behind their perfect smiles. Cheers.
Happy new year.