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Mental Health Awareness T-Shirt, featuring an image of a purple firefighter putting out flames on a blue brain, using (green) liquidated acid to put out the fire. The words in the background are the defined characteristics of someone who has a mental illness, something we sadly see much of in our society today. Some of this is due to genetics, but in my eyes, a lot of this energy is created by us. We the people, human beings of this earth.

It's a struggle to feel content or sane for many of us, especially in a world filled with people in pain, causing pain, to feel less pain. Individuals get lost in the search for answers and we see things like addiction, murder, and suicide spike across our planet. Some people never truly connect with the light inside themselves because they have to work all day just to get by, living a life where they never truly connect with the light inside themselves. It's sad, it's dumb, it's ironically funny. It's our reality, but it doesn't mean it's the only way. Every street, car, and building, you've ever seen was created by a part of you. Every law, and “basic overall belief” you follow usually comes from your own perspectives connecting with others. Every action, good or bad, has a consequence. It's the law of nature, science, ENERGY. We know the answer, but many of us are too afraid to consult our conscience. Too afraid to let go of false ego or get out of our ways. We want peace but, are we willing to suffer at our expenses for the better of mankind. For the better of ourselves and the future of this universe. This universe that is happening back then, right now, and in all of the future at once. To be a force of energy that reflects love as a mirror to all that is living. To know deep down that our energy has power beyond understanding, that “I am good”, and as we continue to live our truths that we will be ok in the face of destruction.

Through sadness there is happiness. Through happiness, there is sadness, and everything in between. We live in a sea of energy. We have control over this energy, and we are all connected, as we are a part of the universe and the universe is a part of us.

Trying to be something we think we should be should be, knowing deep down that their soul is still not content. At our core, I think we all want to love and be loved by one another, find our own unique purpose to ourselves, and simply just learn more about the infinitely mysterious universe we were born into. But we as people rarely live into this belief, letting things like money (A currency that we created) block our vision. We have created this life for ourselves. Even the smartest people get lost, and our brains all operate differently, so what the fuck is mental illness induced by the environment? Someone who's lost their mind? Or someone who has much going on in their head today that they lose touch with reality? "Emotionally destroyed geniuses other geniuses around to tell you it's okay". A lot of us never have much of a chance to express or expand on the beauty of our minds, unless we fight for it by ourselves, in a world focusing on comfortable, surface level, bullshit. So how can we expect someone with a different mindset, or who is born into poverty and violence to succeed at similar levels to someone who has faced the opposite? Especially when we don't hold each other up as creatures. The problems in our lives individually and together, start by searching within. We are all connected through this same universe. We are all capable of being amazing. You are amazing. But it's not that simple. We all have difficult shit to go through, no matter what it looks like, before finding all that is amazing within us. YOU CAN DO IT. LITERALLY. Most historical geniuses were seen as delusional until they proved to the rest world that they were revolutionaries. If our society embraced one another more, anyone could be a revolutionary. This art piece represents not only the importance of a human's mental health but also the drugs we often use as people to escape our problems. The firefighter is a representation of our energetic desire to heal and become better, but as people, we often can't see clearly when struggling. Due to this pattern, we can get stuck using drugs (acid, etc) to escape reality, rather than using them to enhance the depth of this universal experience which we know almost nothing about.

The purpose of this t-shirt is to help anyone who is struggling to feel sane right now, by spreading awareness of the importance of mental health, and the part we all play as a human race, connected mentally, physically, and spiritually, through energy.

-Love, Peace and Happiness.