(UN)GUARDED

Why is it

that nowadays

It isn't okay to display feelings

or thoughts

or any type of emotion

or truth

which we feel?

When someone asks

"How are you?"

"How's your day?"

etc, etc.

we have this automatic response:

"I'm fine."

Or if someone asks

"What's wrong?"

Our excuse:

"I'm. Just. Tired."

You see, there is this group mentality

that says we have to be "just fine"

or that everything is peachy-keen.

And this mentality

means guarding ourselves

from haters

friends

strangers

family.

This mentality means

we are robots

unable to show emotion.

Why are we so guarded?

Why do we put up a front that everything is a-okay

even if it is the worst day ever?

Why does it take us hundreds of years

to let someone in?

To be vulnerable?

To be open?

I know I have a problem.

I'm too scared to let people know ME,

but I am trying.

I'm trying to be honest

open

true

vulnerable

trusting.

Let's do it.

Instead of "heavily guarded"

be a little less reserved

or restrained,

be a little more

UNGUARDED.

We are here together.

We are not robots.

We are human.