“You’ll see me tomorrow because…” by Anis Mojgani
because I am better than my pain and bigger than my sorrow and more than what was abandoned.
because I am better than my pain and bigger than my sorrow and more than what was abandoned.
Jake recently released the music video for his song “Sunshine.” In the video, he opens up about his experience losing his childhood friend, Dylan Andrew Schopp, to suicide earlier this year.
"I'm sorry for how many days you've spent not wanting to see the next. I'm sorry for how much it hurts, and I'm sorry you have to drag that hurt behind you everywhere you go."
Do you know how many times I have thought that to myself? What if I had been there in those minutes before?
"And it’s a devastating cycle: The stigma is rooted in silence, and the silence feeds the stigma. Talking about it is the only way to break the cycle."
"To rise at the crack of dawn and not wish for better things. To reach tomorrow with joy, not regret."
"Suicide means a story ends too soon. Hope means believing that tomorrow can be different, that life is worth living, that it's possible to change."
“It’s in those moments of forgetting that it becomes crucial to remind myself why my story and struggles matter.”
"I’m an adult now, and I’ve learned a lot of things over the years. One thing I haven’t learned, however, is how to love myself."
"My fears kept me silent, and I began to believe every lie depression told me."
“Sharing our stories is an important part of healing that often gets overshadowed by our fear, our shame, or our pain.”
"Somewhere in my mind, I figured that I would get to go back to my old life after some short-lived sobriety."
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