A thought popped into my head as I was getting ready this morning, with The Beatles' "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" stuck in my head.
Society would make us believe that we must mentally put up a wall to hide every aspect of ourselves that could potentially let an outsider in on our emotions. They teach us to keep to ourselves, to avoid at all costs the risk of rejection, to put on a mask and hide our emotional selves and lives behind it.
Please don't.
This world is too cruel and this life is too hard for us not to let each other in and help each other through.
This "Hide Your Love Away" attitude is what we have always been taught. We all have this tendency. I'm just as guilty of it as anyone else.
But if you look at the state of the world right now, I think it's easy to see that just because something is "the way it's always been done" doesn't necessarily mean that it's the best way of doing things.
The world needs people who will open up. Who will write books. Who will cry with the pained. Who will have conversations that go past the small talk we seem to somehow get by on.
We need them now more than ever. Because no matter how strongly many of us don't want to admit it, we need each other in this life.
So lets be those people, yes?
Society would make us believe that we must mentally put up a wall to hide every aspect of ourselves that could potentially let an outsider in on our emotions. They teach us to keep to ourselves, to avoid at all costs the risk of rejection, to put on a mask and hide our emotional selves and lives behind it.
Please don't.
This world is too cruel and this life is too hard for us not to let each other in and help each other through.
This "Hide Your Love Away" attitude is what we have always been taught. We all have this tendency. I'm just as guilty of it as anyone else.
But if you look at the state of the world right now, I think it's easy to see that just because something is "the way it's always been done" doesn't necessarily mean that it's the best way of doing things.
The world needs people who will open up. Who will write books. Who will cry with the pained. Who will have conversations that go past the small talk we seem to somehow get by on.
We need them now more than ever. Because no matter how strongly many of us don't want to admit it, we need each other in this life.
So lets be those people, yes?
THIS IS INSPIRED.
ReplyDeleteLast night we met this kid...it's actually kinda bad, but my friend pretended to be on crutches and this kid Collin thought she needed them and helped her learn how to use them properly. Then he told us this story about a skiing accident that he had earlier this year and it was a pretty traumatic story and he shared parts of his patriarchal blessing that helped him through it and told us the stuff that he learned, like patience and empathy.
And then she told him that she didn't need crutches. And we felt really bad. But he said it was ok, and we decided there was probably a reason that we needed to hear that story. Then we all sat around talking for three hours, just becoming friends.
What I took away from it was, wow, look how willing this kid was to tell us something that really impacted his life, showing us the scars on his leg and stuff, and I was just really amazed at how open he was with absolute strangers. I had never met him before, but now it feels like we have this connection. In a way, I'm really happy she lied, so we could meet him. I need to try to be like him.
That's awesome. Though kind of a funny/weird way for it all to come about, haha. But you're probably right. There probably was a reason you were all meant to hear that. I don't think these things really happen by accident, you know?
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