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In Mental Health 3 min read
The concept that, "LIFE is a PRISON"
<p style="text-align: center;"><br/></p><p style="text-align: center;">Life…</p><p style="text-align: center;">is a prison.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Not the kind with bars you can touch—</p><p style="text-align: center;">but the kind you slowly grow into.</p><p style="text-align: center;">From birth…</p><p style="text-align: center;">to being a kid…</p><p style="text-align: center;">then a teen…</p><p style="text-align: center;">a youth…</p><p style="text-align: center;">an adult—</p><p style="text-align: center;">we keep moving forward</p><p style="text-align: center;">like there’s no other direction.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Like turning back</p><p style="text-align: center;">was never an option.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Years pass.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Quietly.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Stacking… stacking… stacking…</p><p style="text-align: center;">until they become decades—</p><p style="text-align: center;">and decades?</p><p style="text-align: center;">They become a whole lifetime.</p><p style="text-align: center;">And all this time…</p><p style="text-align: center;">we’re living in a world</p><p style="text-align: center;">we didn’t choose—</p><p style="text-align: center;">but somehow…</p><p style="text-align: center;">we’re expected to understand.</p><p style="text-align: center;">That’s where it starts.</p><p style="text-align: center;">That feeling…</p><p style="text-align: center;">That maybe—</p><p style="text-align: center;">just maybe—</p><p style="text-align: center;">life isn’t as free</p><p style="text-align: center;">as it looks.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Because some minds…</p><p style="text-align: center;">they don’t just see what’s in front of them.</p><p style="text-align: center;">They see beyond it.</p><p style="text-align: center;">They question things.</p><p style="text-align: center;">They chase what can’t be touched.</p><p style="text-align: center;">They feel what doesn’t make sense.</p><p style="text-align: center;">And when you look deep enough—</p><p style="text-align: center;">life starts to feel structured…</p><p style="text-align: center;">controlled…</p><p style="text-align: center;">boxed in.</p><p style="text-align: center;">By society.</p><p style="text-align: center;">By culture.</p><p style="text-align: center;">By money.</p><p style="text-align: center;">By expectations we didn’t create—</p><p style="text-align: center;">but somehow inherited.</p><p style="text-align: center;">From the moment you’re born,</p><p style="text-align: center;">you’re placed somewhere—</p><p style="text-align: center;">and slowly…</p><p style="text-align: center;">you become it.</p><p style="text-align: center;">You act like them.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Think like them.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Move like them.</p><p style="text-align: center;">That’s the first chain.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Simple.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Normal.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Almost invisible.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Then you grow…</p><p style="text-align: center;">And pressure comes.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Not always forced—</p><p style="text-align: center;">but somehow still heavy.</p><p style="text-align: center;">You start comparing.</p><p style="text-align: center;">You start chasing.</p><p style="text-align: center;">You start becoming</p><p style="text-align: center;">someone shaped by everything around you.</p><p style="text-align: center;">And before you even realize it—</p><p style="text-align: center;">you’re no longer living.</p><p style="text-align: center;">You’re performing.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Life is a prison…</p><p style="text-align: center;">Why?</p><p style="text-align: center;">Because the path feels… scripted.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Go to school.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Get money.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Get married.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Have kids.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Live.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Then die.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Repeat.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Over and over again.</p><p style="text-align: center;">And everyone calls it… normal.</p><p style="text-align: center;">But even in all that—</p><p style="text-align: center;">there’s something else.</p><p style="text-align: center;">The small things.</p><p style="text-align: center;">The random laughs.</p><p style="text-align: center;">The late-night talks.</p><p style="text-align: center;">The moments that don’t seem important—</p><p style="text-align: center;">until they are.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Those little details…</p><p style="text-align: center;">they stretch further than we think.</p><p style="text-align: center;">They make the walls feel… softer.</p><p style="text-align: center;">But then—</p><p style="text-align: center;">night comes.</p><p style="text-align: center;">And that’s when everything changes.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Because silence?</p><p style="text-align: center;">Silence is loud.</p><p style="text-align: center;">That’s when your mind starts talking.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Louder than everyone else.</p><p style="text-align: center;">You replay your day.</p><p style="text-align: center;">You notice what you didn’t do.</p><p style="text-align: center;">What you could’ve done.</p><p style="text-align: center;">What you should’ve done.</p><p style="text-align: center;">You start asking yourself questions</p><p style="text-align: center;">you don’t have answers to.</p><p style="text-align: center;">“Why am I not there yet?”</p><p style="text-align: center;">“Why does it feel like I’m behind?”</p><p style="text-align: center;">“Why does it feel like I’m wasting time?”</p><p style="text-align: center;">And suddenly…</p><p style="text-align: center;">you’re picking apart moments</p><p style="text-align: center;">that are already gone.</p><p style="text-align: center;">But the day is gone.</p><p style="text-align: center;">And all you have left…</p><p style="text-align: center;">is tomorrow.</p><p style="text-align: center;">If it comes.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Because here’s the truth—</p><p style="text-align: center;">nothing is promised.</p><p style="text-align: center;">And that part?</p><p style="text-align: center;">Nobody likes to say it out loud.</p><p style="text-align: center;">A lot of people…</p><p style="text-align: center;">are just surviving.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Not because they love life—</p><p style="text-align: center;">but because they don’t know</p><p style="text-align: center;">what comes after it.</p><p style="text-align: center;">There’s a thought—</p><p style="text-align: center;">a quiet one—</p><p style="text-align: center;">that sits in the back of the mind.</p><p style="text-align: center;">But fear…</p><p style="text-align: center;">fear keeps it silent.</p><p style="text-align: center;">So we continue.</p><p style="text-align: center;">We move.</p><p style="text-align: center;">We breathe.</p><p style="text-align: center;">We exist.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Not always living—</p><p style="text-align: center;">just… continuing.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Hoping—</p><p style="text-align: center;">that somehow—</p><p style="text-align: center;">the next day brings us closer</p><p style="text-align: center;">to something.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Anything.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Before time runs out.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Because in this prison…</p><p style="text-align: center;">you don’t know</p><p style="text-align: center;">when the sentence ends.</p><p style="text-align: center;">And maybe…</p><p style="text-align: center;">that’s the scariest part of all.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br/></p><p style="text-align: center;">The End.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br/></p><p style="text-align: center;">Credits: Confidential 🙂</p>

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