Vex King | Self-love Writer

The last few heartfelt conversations I’ve had with people have left me thinking about how much uncertainty so many of us are carrying.

Behind familiar smiles are unfamiliar struggles. Behind “I’m good” are worries that keep people awake at night. So many people are silently trying to hold their lives together while wondering when things will finally get easier.

Yesterday, I came across several videos, one after another, of young people crying. Different faces and circumstances, but beneath their tears, I could sense they were all longing for the same thing: to be okay and know they’re going to be okay.

To be honest, I think that sometimes the hardest part of what we’re going through isn’t even the pain itself. It’s actually the uncertainty of not knowing how long it will last. We fear what comes next, and whether the life we’re hoping for is still going to manifest as we want it to.

I wish I could reach through the screen and gently remind every person who feels lost right now that their story is still unfolding. That this difficult chapter is not the whole book, and even when they cannot see a way forward, it doesn’t mean they won’t find one.

One practice that has carried me through some of my own darkest and most uncertain moments is prayer.

And it’s not always because prayer has changed my circumstances, but because it has often changed how I’ve been able to meet them. It has given me somewhere to place the weight of things I could no longer carry alone.

So today, I’d like to offer you a prayer. You don’t have to believe in anything to receive it. You don’t have to share my understanding of the divine. Just take whatever speaks to your heart, and leave whatever doesn’t.

And if life feels particularly heavy right now, I hope these words find the part of you that has been trying so hard to stay strong.

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