i am [not] alone.
I struggle with loneliness. Some days I sit in my bed and begin to cry because I have convinced myself that I am completely alone. You have no friends. No one understands what you are feeling right now. You've just got to suck it up and deal with it. You're too much. You're not enough. These are just a few of the thoughts that I play on repeat during those bad days. I'm not telling you this for sympathy, but rather because I am confident that I am not the only one who has this struggle. It's been 2.5 years since I graduated from college, and the transition into the "real world" is still really hard for me. When I moved back to Fort Wayne I had this unrealistic expectation that things would just pick up where I left them. I was so wrong. My friends have changed, moved away to different cities and states, gotten married. I am in a familiar place, surrounded by familiar people, but I still feel alone. Tonight at youth group, I forced myself to...