The rise in depression these days is absolutely alarming.

The most we can do is be there for everyone and help out our neighbors. This goes out to everyone dealing with depression and no one to talk to about it.

When dealing with Anxiety and Depression it is easy to want to leave, run away, and hide. Just to get up and pack everything and just drive. Drive until you find a new destination to create roots in. Leaving everything behind, telling no one.

For some people, staying might mean on this Earth. I believe everyone stays for different reasons. Some may stay because of minuscule things like a sunny day, good food, or even because of that one memory they have from way back when with people they don't remember.

My reason to stay is love. Whether it may be love from friends, family, or complete strangers, I have my reason to stay. I grew up believing that love is what makes the world go round. I think that to love someone and not share how you feel and your thoughts with that person is a waste, of time and energy.

Love doesn't always have to mean the romantic type of love either. It can be from your closest friends dropping everything just to make sure you are okay in the middle of the night or from your animal comforting you after a night of crying. At the end of the day, the only thing that really matters to everyone is love.

That is my reason to stay.

For me, love isn't just love.

Love is happiness and everything good in life. By showing others love, you can completely change their bad day around. On the opposite hand, the more you love the more we are able to get hurt but the more we love, the more lessons we learn, the more experiences we take part in, and the more possibilities of leaving behind good when we are gone.

I never plan on changing in my ways, I shall love until my very last breath and I can love no longer. Even when I am dead and gone, I will live on in everyone through love.

Love is my reason to stay, what's yours?