Fight Song
Mental Illness, Epidemic
Let’s fight this battle together. No one suffering with a mental illness should never feel alone when fighting the same battle everyday!
When it comes to my passion for mental health, I will not only stand up for the importance of the epidemic but also everything inside the issue alone. I’ve suffered and am still living with mental illness everyday. Ever since high school I would say that I’ve battled with depression and anxiety along with my ADHD but now being as I’m 19, almost 20, ADD.
The Fosters, Fost & Found
It’s also so that foster kids can have a voice, to be heard.
But it’s not like we can use it. They don’t let us use the internet. – Friend
Yes but your not gonna be here (Girls United, foster homes) forever, right? – Rita
“So I was hoping maybe I could record some of your stories & upload them for you? Daphne, you could talk about how hard it has been for you to get gestations with Tasha.” – Callie
“Yeah but I don’t want to mess up my chances of getting her back.” – Daphne
“My probation hearing is coming up.
“You can risk making things harder for ourselves.”
And your so close to getting adopted, you can’t go around kicking in hornets either.
Well, most of the people I know working in the system do care. And they try their best to do their jobs. And there are abuses. Someone needs to call them out on it but it’s a lot to ask of kids who could suffer the consequences. – Rita
Maybe you need to find some kids who have less to lose.
My thoughts:
I think that no matter what may be put at risk or may be too much to lose, no one should back out. If it gets them what they want and need, there should be no second thoughts. So what if it may possibly vary whether they get what they want but that doesn’t instantly and easily mean that’s what’s gonna happen. I believe that it’s all worth the risk and sacrifice to get what we all deserve. Fight for what you believe in. Fight for what you want no matter what may be put at stake.
And Callie inspires us that “we cannot be afraid.” no matter what.
Child Youth Worker – The judge saw some website of Callie’s Fost and something and he didn’t like it, at all.
Lena – Why wouldn’t he like it?
Child Youth Worker – Apparently there’s a video where you talk about him. So the first thing you need to do when we get into that court room, you have to apologize. You need to apologize, do you understand me?
Callie – Apologize for what?
Child Youth Worker – For insulting Judge Ringer in that video you posted.
Callie – I didn’t insult him. I was just telling the truth. I’m not not gonna apologize for that.
Lena – Calle, think about this. Please, this might not be the moment for you to …
Callie – What? Stand up for what I believe in? I love you both with all of my heart and you know how much I wanna be a part of this family but I can’t take back what I said. There’s too many people counting on me. I can’t.
Lena – So you understand what this means?
Lena – What is going on?
Mariana – They're foster kids, they’re here to support Callie.
If I were in a situation like this, I wouldn’t apologize for anything that I would’ve said in the video. I wouldn’t apologize for being honest nor for standing up for what I believe in. There’s no rules or laws against this at all so why are so many people in our society still believe that it’s wrong.
Maybe cuz we have to call them out and put it in a inspiring tone using our voices ourselves to help get the message across to them. We need to continue standing up for what we believe in using our powerful, confident and inspiring voices. We all have a voice, use your voice to inspire better and healthier change for the world.
The world needs better change. The world needs you. The world needs all of us. All of us to create better change with our creativity. Think and live creatively. Use creative arts as a way to express your feelings, thoughts and actions. Art plays a great role in these kinds of solutions and issues in our world. Think creatively, find new creative ways to do everything. It’s a better way to solve all the world’s issues and problems, including your own.
“Why do we go with the flow. Why take an easier road? Why are we playin’ it safe? Love came to show us the way. Love is a chance we should take. I’m movin’ out of the gray.” – The Lost Get Found, Britt Nicole
Stop taking the easy road in your life and make the right choices for yourself on your own terms. You don’t need anyone’s approval or vote whether you should do something or not. It’s your life, your responsible and smart enough to make your own decisions for yourself. You are mature enough to take charge of your own life without any approval of your family.
“Everybody’s gonna make mistakes, but everybody’s got a choice to make. Everybody needs a leap of faith. When are you taking yours?” – Nickelback
You need to take that leap of faith for yourself and believe me it’s part of the process of feeling uncomfortable in the moment but it’s the right thing to do. We all make mistakes, but it’s all within each of us to not let it define ourselves, destroy us, even dwelling on them all the time. We need to stop those bad habits and start practicing positive and healthier habits like accepting your mistakes, learning from them, let them make you stronger and wiser, and move on. It’s what’s healthy and best for your mental health. It deserves that and so much more!
This is your time to make things right for yourself. All on your own, know that you’re not alone in any of this.
You gotta reach for the top. Believe in every dream that you’ve got. You’re only living once so tell me. What are you waiting for? You know you gotta give it your all. Don’t you be afraid if you fall.” – What Are You Waiting For?
Believe in everything that you do in your life that says something about who you are as your personality and your positive label to society. Give me reasons to hate you, don’t let what they have to say, drag you down. Let it make you strong enough to make you not only unstoppable, and confident but inspiring in your own creative and fun ways. Don’t to those voices, listen to yours instead.
All the hate and lies around us. Like an ember in the brush. And can you picture a world without it?. And turn it all to ash and dust. We keep waiting on a day that never comes and never comes. Too late is not a thing and we just gotta be stronger. Oh, gotta be stronger. – Torches
We need to stop hating ourselves and others for how they are and as we are. Accept yourself as God made you to be. You are who you are for so many beautiful reasons. Take your time to discover and embrace them in every beautiful way. It’s within yourself to love you inside and out and not want to change a thing.
Love is like a torch that’s burning bright. Carry it on, carry it on and you’ll see. Fire will shine a light on the darkest side. Carry it on, carry it on. Cause we can never right all the wrongs. So leave the past well enough alone. And say. – Torches
Keep carrying that hope, strength, courage, confidence, power, inspiration and anything else you have with you. Never give up on what you believe in nor your dreams. Never let anything drag you down or make you lose any of what you’ve got just because it became harder and more challenging to keep going. It may be hard but that’s part of the process. It tests you to see how far you are willing and able to go to fight for what you believe in to get what you want out of that. Dont give up.
Life may be hard, tough, challenging, unfair at times but are you so much more stronger, beautiful, confident, amazing and talented more than you believe yourself to be. You may feel weak inside but don’t stop there. Don’t let that power change your direction. Stick with everything that you have and keep going no matter what happens. Keep fighting, it’s always worth it all in the long run! The benefits and results itself are part of what you get that pays off all your hard work, effort and time in achieving these hard, tough times in reality.
“We can do anything that we want.” – Shawn Desman
