Thursday, May 5, 2011

Cover your ears

At age seven, you acted like you have actually accepted everything that's happening in your life which include the separation of your parents, and aunts and uncles who bully you because both your mother and your father were away from you so nobody's there to protect you from bullies who can't pick their own size. People marveled at the depth of your understanding and your capacity to just smile and shrug your shoulders whenever old people ask you how you feel after your parents got separated.

Now that you are older and the word 'anger' is already listed on your vocabulary, people call you "arrogant", "rude", "inconsiderate", "selfish", "wild", "ill-mannered",  and "disrespectful".

You are then being thought of as someone who is just so weak to even accept and cope up with the things that are happening in her life. In every possible way, they are showing you that venting out your anger is totally wrong because each and every individual who has ever walked the earth is going through something painful and difficult and that like most, you should just shut up.

I should say that people who think this way are just plain dumb and ignorant. I bet they've never gone through Psychology 101.

Or maybe, these people have just been used to you being quiet about the things that you feel. It's easier for them that way so they'd rather you have your mouth zipped forever.

But then, keeping your silence just so others won't hear anything unpleasing is not really something that brave and honest people do.

Everyone of us was given a mind and a mouth so that we could think independently and say whatever we wish to say without asking someone else to speak for us. So why the hell should we keep our silence for someone else's peace?

For those who don't like hearing anything unpleasing to hear from other people but can't help stumping on someone else's foot and ruining someone else's life, I have something to say to you:

Cover your ears because I won't shut my mouth.