I want to talk to each and everyone of you about depression from someone who suffers with depression on a daily basis. Many people may think that those who suffer with depression are just sad all the time and that's all they see. But sadness is not always the case, there's also loneliness, fear and anger. Depression is a mix of emotions that tugs on the hearts of those who suffers with it daily. From my experience depression for me is like being at Comic Con midst of all the crowds; midst of all the people you see as your friends and no one is saying hi to you. You feel like you're a ghost that everyone is seeing right through you. You want the world to see you, but all you are to the world is a ghost. It's a heavy feeling and each day it gets heavier and heavier until you can no longer breath. You feel the world, society's judgmental glare aimed at you. You feel as if someone is talking bad about you, even though they're not, they're not even talking about you at all. You begin to wonder if anyone would truly miss you if you're gone. If anyone would come to your funeral if you were dead. If the world would be better off if you were no longer here. That's when you start pondering suicide. That's what I feel on many occasions. I'm always feeling alone. I feel like the whole world is judging me. I want to reach out but I'm afraid, afraid that people might judge me even more. That people might accuse me of being weak. I want someone to acknowledge my existence. I want to know that I have a purpose in this world and that what I do is meaningful. But when it come to depression, you start believing in fear. You start believing that your life is pointless. You stop believing that everything is meaningful and that no one will reach out to you and no one will help you. Depression can be so severe, you can actually put yourself at risk for anxiety, panic attacks, even heart attacks. You could be putting so much weight on your self, on your heart that sometimes, many times actually, depression would lead to suicide. Even I've had my share of suicidal thoughts in the past, but I'm a fighter and no matter how I feel, I will always fight for my life. Because even during my darkest times, my darkest hours, in my deepest pit of despair, even I know that life is worth fighting for. But some people, they don't have that same feeling, that same encouragement and to them, death is the only way out. Death is the only Freedom they have. So that's why many people take their own lives. Maybe no one ever reached out to them. Maybe someone saw that person in despair and just walked right by thinking that person will fix their own problems. Perhaps they were in a hurry and never paid attention. Maybe they were too prideful of themselves. So instead of helping, each and every one of these people could've been a light, but they were only thinking of themselves, not of others. They had a choice to be a light and shine for someone who may need it, but they chose to turn away. They didn't let that light shine and believe it or not each and everyone of you can be a light. Even a spark in the darkest night can still cast light. So you have a choice in this matter, you can be a light in someone's life and help save them from fear and bring them out of that depression, or you can go on with your life, thinking only of yourself and not your fellow man. Each person with depression is a ticking time bomb and every minute that person is that much closer to taking their own life. So don't hesitate to talk to someone if you see them feeling down. Just don't talk to them one time. Let then know you really care and that they are are loved. Talk to them twice a week even, that way they know they have someone who actually cares. If you just talk to them once and that's it, that's not going to help them. They're gonna see that you don't really care about them. They're still going to feel alone. You can show them that life is worth fighting for, all you have to do is be the light. Depression is serious and it's always taking people away, it's always taking lives, but together we can conquer depression, we can conquer fear. So in a world full of Darkness, shine bright, brighter than the sun and the moon at night. Shine bright, because you are hope to someone who needs hope. You are love to someone seeking love. Shine bright for those who is fighting a losing battle, so they can be victorious. Shine bright and never let your light go out. Because all it takes is you doing what is right. Shine bright and be the light to those suffering in darkness, they are not alone.
​I want to start a hashtag to help raise awareness for depression. With your help let's make the #YouAreNotAlone go viral. Let's show them they are not alone. Let's show them that they are loved and that you are willing to be there for them. By sharing the #YouAreNotAlone, you letting them know that they can confined in you. That they can trust you. Continue being the light.

I am a poet, I would write endless amounts of romantic poetry, the truth is my ink has ceased to flow. I have forgotten what it means to love, to be loved. That is what I long for and until I find it, or love finds me, my pen, my ink won't flow.

So you think raising the minimum wage to $15 is a good thing and that it will give you a lot of extra money in your pocket to spend? You still have a lot to learn. Let me break it down the best I can for you. If minimum wage was in fact raised, you know corporate will not give their employees the raise out of their own pockets; they’re too greedy for that. Instead, here’s what they’re going to do.
1)      They’re going to lay-off several hundred if not thousands of employees. That way they could pay that extra $7 to each and all remaining employees. And those employees that they did lay-off, they’re going to replace them with self-automotive check-out or some other self-serving technology.
2)      Expect the price of foods to go up drastically to compensate the raise of the minimum wage. Did you know that corporate isn’t the one who pays the employees, but the costumers? Oh, yeah. Even though corporate does take a portion of the employee’s paycheck and a percentage from the costumers, it is in fact the costumers who pays the employees. With that being said, with the price of foods doing up, here’s how that’s going to work. A loaf of bread is a dollar, right? With the minimum wage raised, expect to pay $5 for a single loaf of bread. A $1.99 gallon of milk would end up costing you $8.99. A single dozens of eggs that is originally $2.48 would be $11.48. People wouldn’t be able to donate food for the hungry anymore, because it would be too costly, because a single can of soup which use to be $1 is now $5. More people would be hungry, starving all because you got greedy and wanted more money for yourself.
It’s called ‘minimum wage’ for a reason. You’re not supposed to live on it. Minimum wage is a starter for high schoolers and young adults. It’s not meant to be lived on, but to learn from so that you can excel in life, so that you can move up higher and higher with a better pay and a better job. By raising the minimum wage, it would also make it very difficult, possibly border-lining impossible for a high schooler or a young adult to find work. So Bernie Sanders, Hillary and all who want the minimum wage to be raised, do your research (yes, that means reading). Do your research before you do what you feel is right. Do your research before you choose sides. A politician will only speak what you want to hear and do the complete opposite. Sure, what you hear might sound so good, but what you hear and what you want would do more damage than what WE really need. Before you side with a politician running for office, always, ALWAYS do your research, deep research into that person and who or what they stand for. Never vote blindly. That is a life lesson I learned from my father before he passed and that is a life lesson I am willing to pass on. Oh, and one more thing. I work in retail and I get paid minimum wage and I, myself don’t want it raised. Think before you do and please do your research.

The irony is that we have men and women risking their lives, even dying for America, to protect her.. Yet we in our homeland, are destroying her from within with all this racism and hate. The way I see it, until we fix what's going on in our homeland, until we learn to love on one another, our men and women over seas are dying in vein.

There's a time in life where we come across two bridges and we must decide which to cross. Here you got one bridge that is gorgeous and decked out, made of solid iron and the other is a rugged old splintered wooden bridge that looks like it's falling apart. But looks can be deceiving as the splintered bridge would lead you all the way, sure it might shake and some boards might fall, but at least you would make it all the way. As for the gorgeous iron bridge, it looks as if it goes all the way, but in reality it only goes half way. You see, the iron bridge is all things man. It looks trustworthy and it looks as if it could take you all the way, but in reality you can only go so far. But as for the old wooden bridge, which represents the Cross that Jesus laid down His life upon. It is that bridge that would take you all the way. You just have to put your faith and trust in Him and know that it is that bridge that will lead you all the way home. It is up to you to decide the bridge you would take. Which one would it be?