Elena Gilbert

Dear Diary, Today will be different. It has to be. I will smile, and it will be believable. My smile will say, "I'm fine, thank you. Yes, I feel much better." I will no longer be the sad little girl that lost her parents. I will start fresh, be someone new. It's the only way I'll make it through.

Dear Diary, I made it through the day. I must have said "I'm fine, thanks" at least 37 times. And I didn't mean it once. But no one noticed. When someone asks "How are you?", they really don't want an answer.

Dear Diary, I couldn't have been more wrong. I thought that I could smile and nod my way through it, pretend like it would all be okay. Without the pain. Someone alive. But it's not that easy. Bad things stay with you. All you can do is be ready for the good, so when it comes, you invite it in. Because you need it. I need it.

~Nina Dobrev

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~Amal Ahmed Khan (Am-Ammo)