We all have our own struggles and burdens that we carry around with us from day-to-day—burdens that a lot of people may not know about and I think we forget about that a lot of times. We forget that we all have our own demons. To make this point apparent and open our eyes to this I asked my community to open up about their own struggles and share what they were willing to with me. The answers were overwhelming, to say the least.

Reading these very honest and vulnerable submissions from people I knew for years but had no idea that they struggled with these things was enough proof for me to write this. A lot of the submissions were from people my age, 19, which is even crazier because in just 19 years of being alive we have been faced with some of the hardest problems some people could ever imagine.

From reading these submissions it reassured my belief that spreading kindness and practicing understanding others will be one of the only things to help us survive. If you take anything away from this I want it to be to walk through life being a little less judgmental and remembering that you do not know someones entire story. People are very good at hiding their biggest secret, so go easy on people and be kind.