can you tell me where it hurts?

this post is dedicated to the strongest girl i know, Lexi Hayes. Enjoy!

hurt ; It's the easiest thing to say, and the easiest thing to do, but the most impossible thing to avoid. Hurt is all around us, everyday. In the words that we say, the feelings we let out, and the faces we express to the world. Everybody has been damaged and hurt once or twice, and almost everyone has hurt someone else.The thing is though, the biggest problem we face, is coming to terms with the fact that you have been hurt. Most people brush it off their shoulders and play it out like they're fine, but in truth, they come home and cry their eyes out for hours on end. We don't know what goes on in people's lives and yet all of us, every single one continue to judge people like we know them. I do it, parents do it, teachers do it, kids do it. every single day a kid comes home crying from school because someone made fun of their sexual orientation, or a girl throws up in the school bathroom because somebody called her an "overweight bitch". Hurt is all around us, hate is all around us.
The worst thing is that even though we have all had those days when nothing goes right, when someone says something that makes you feel the slightest bit insecure, or the days you get the biggest pit in your stomach because someone said something behind your back, we still continue to be the hypocrites that are, the human race. It's a constant struggle to be the best, whether its getting the highest grade in your class, or beating the fastest girl on your track team, or for once in your life being better at something than your older brother, we all need to be the best. And in doing so we forget that there are other people around us, we neglect the feelings of those who we feel "don't matter". We are in fact the most vicious species on this planet. We hurt, and we bring discomfort all for the pleasure of ourselves, and being comfortable with who we are. We don't think before we act, and forget that there is someone out there that might just need to win this track meet, or get the best score in his math class. Because every night when he goes home his parents tell him he'll never be the athlete his brother was. That it if he doesn't ace this math test and clean up his act, his probation officer will finally throw him in jail. We need to step aside and stop the hurt, we need to put others first. 6 billion people in this world and the only ones we think about is ourselves. the world is an ever changing waste land of screw-ups and wanna-bees, successors and scholars. And we can all come together. We need to change the world. We can stop the hurt.

-Alli