On the outside you see smiles. Instagram and Facebook updates hide the fact that they cry themselves to sleep some nights. They work hard despite of how badly they want to break down and give up. They put on a facade because they do not want you to know that maybe their life is not perfect.

And you are convinced. Maybe you have even said that you wish you were them. Everyone likes them. Nothing seems bad. You are convinced that their life is perfect. And maybe you hate them for that. Those people that seem to have everything together, that seem to have nothing wrong.

I am one of those people. I am someone that hides everything because I do not want people to know that my life is sometimes a mess. I do not open up to people. I bottle up all of my emotions and go out to face the world with a smile. But smiles only hide so much.

But life shouldn’t be lived this way. And you know, maybe that’s what is wrong with people and the world these days. We try to cover up the fact that not everything is perfect. We try to hide that maybe we need help.

But there is only one way to fix it.

Put trust in others. We need to learn the importance of communication. The importance of human connection, because this is where we learn that no one lives a perfect life. Everyone has different experiences and while some may be good, others are not. Without learning from others we believe that we are the only one that is different. Communication gives us a window to peer into others’ lives to see that maybe what we are going through isn’t that bad.