Sonder: Youth Mental Health Stories of Struggle & Strength | Page 32

JUST ANOTHER STATISTIC CONT .
hearing your favorite song live . Or walking yourself out of a panic attack . Or hugging someone and feeling the warmth that human bodies naturally create . Clipping your nails and taking showers at the end of a hard week . Doodling in the middle of class and daydreaming of what the world is like beyond those stone walls of the school . Laughing at that one kid in class who makes jokes because he likes the attention .
I could go on , but I encourage all of us to look at the tiniest things that make us smile and cling to them . When you have depression and it takes you three hours to get out of bed , moving yourself limb by limb , this can be pretty tough . I know that I , a random person writing this , knows that and understands that . But even if it is something as small as finding the right temperature in the shower , it is something to live for . I think that is the greatest medicine of them all . How painfully cliche and overused this all might sound , but take it for what it is . You might have just not found that perfect temperature of the water yet . But you will , I ’ ll promise you that .
So I say add me to another statistic and examine me like a graph in a textbook . I will smile at the thought that there is no way to calculate the true meaning of why we all choose to live and strive for a better life than we have now . ●
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