Vulnerability should be a love language

These past couple of weeks I learnt that I've played superwoman for so long that people don't realise that I too need a break, that I fall apart so much so that they don't even know how to handle me at my lowest. No one owes an understanding to anyone but often times strong people aren't afforded that opportunity to go through what they got to go through, feel it, cry without any judgment or someone saying "Nah, you are the strongest person I know"

Alot of times we see on our social media platforms statements written in bold letters or Poets rhyming while trying to remind people to "Check on their strong friends"... But nah, the society doesn't have room for strong people to be weak, vulnerability has never been part of the vocabulary or even a love language between them and the society.

Who do we run to? Who's going to be strong for us - the same people who are considered strong, unbreakable, unshakable. Who's going to be strong for us?

I can only pray and hope that some day the society will be a safe place for us to be weak and not judged, not be told to "snap out of it" using lines like "You are a human mount Zion, you're unshakeable" we too need to breathe, we too need to cry without guilt. We say life is not fair, but it's fair because it's being unfair to all of us. May our downs be a time for you to step up for the both of us.

From the girl who removed the "S" on her chest.