Dear Society,
I don't get it. I just don't get it. Why can't someone be free? Why can't society accept us? Why can someone be themselves without being stabbed in the back? Why can't someone be in love without someone taunting them about being "whipped?" Please, society, explain this to me. Explain why everyone does something just because one person stood up and said it was "cool." Explain why someone claims that a certain act is popular and everyone just accepts it to be that way. Tell me why girls feel the need to hide their insecurities under make up or behind books. Tell me why boys act tough to hide their immaturities. Tell me why. I'm trying to understand. I've tried to understand so many times, you wouldn't believe. I've done this. I still do this and I don't know why. Why do I only feel free to be myself around my friends? Why can't I trust people so easily? Why can't I feel safe under society's judgement? Why does it feel like all of society's judgements are true? As if all those comments about a our body or the way you act are all true? As if they were right all those times society called you an outcast or different. As if they were right all those times they made an opinion about me or you based on the clothes we wear or the music we listen to or what we say or even what we look like. I want to know why. Why do we all take society's opinion to heart? Why do the opinions of others mean so much to us? This happens to me too and I have no explanation for it.
An outcast
Nerd
Deteriorating by myself
Resisting in quicksand
Enough = Not
An outsider
