It is OK

A couple of thoughts along the Mental Health Awareness Week

There is this little girl in me always bragging about not doing enough, not having done certain things or having completely failed at others.

There is this little girl in me always rushing into the mornings, to have the right breakfast at the right time, to train and to send out the right emails.

There is this little girl smiling, laughing at jokes, scheduling meetings and going to them. The girl, consuming endless espressos, the girl, over obsessed to pick the right wording or to meet the deadlines.

And sometimes, or quite often it is tiring. The world is sat at the wheel of quantified self-improvement, personality boosting, bio-hacking and a lot of caring. Wonderful as it is, not everyone and not everywhere can cope with the pace, the structure and the guidelines of self-made heroic super-humans, exaggerated quite duably through media and web.

This week is the Mental Health Awareness Week. It is about turning around and looking at those who cannot run, as they don’t feel like, those among us who think of giving up every thirty seconds in between corporate meetings or the applause from the stage, those, too insecure to go on a Tinder date. Numbers are growing and it is me , you and everyone else at a certain point in our lives.

I deliberately avoid “stress, anxiety or deression” as wording. It alienates, makes up non-existent walls. Maybe sometimes the little girl in me needs to be told that it is ok.

It is ok to miss the train, it is ok to be sad and it is quite ok not to fit in the old jeans.

It is ok to have wrinkles, to be dumped or cheated on, to be broke or to feel lonely. It is ok to cry in the middle of urban havens of success therapy, it is ok to cry at home or not to have emotions to cry. It is ok to be silent, to stay in your bed sometimes, it is ok to ask for help. It is ok to want things you don’t have and hate things you do. It is ok to be you. Not the better you, the fitter or the happier. It is ok to be you today, at this very moment.

And there are lots of us, actually a whole world out there.