For the entirety of my life I’ve been an extremely non-confrontational person, mostly because I consider getting into arguments to be a waste of time, energy, and mental stability. But today I scrolled past something on my Facebook feed and realised that if I didn’t stop to say something here, I may as well lock myself in a cell and throw away the key, because that’s about as much use as I’d be.
I’m a human like anyone else. I have the right to have my own opinions, and to voice them. I shouldn’t restrict myself from doing this just because I’m afraid I’ll be met with some sort of dispute which would lead to the dreaded “confrontation”. So yes, I should speak up and not be afraid that I’m the only one who thinks that legalising weed is the dumbest idea since Google+, that depending on alcohol for a good time is just as bad, that this culture of constant parties is childish and that many of its party-goers are foolishly irresponsible. And as much as that makes me sound like the least fun person in the world, I shouldn’t care. And I won’t say I don’t, because that would be lying. But that doesn’t mean I should shy away and be silent forever.
This silence I’ve grown accustomed to has become worse and worse over the last few years, and the repression has taken its toll on my mind. Keeping my lips sealed means that the unvoiced opinions bounce around in my mind, sometimes for hours, causing incessant chattering and causing more damage than any so-called confrontation could.
Drugs are bad, too many feminists aren’t for equality but the downfall of men, religion shouldn’t confine people’s freedom, atheists shouldn’t shit on religious followers, critics of most kinds are overpayed and damaging to creators, most publishers in any industry are money-stealing corporate-heads, democracy isn’t democracy when it’s as manipulated as the society we live in, every realist’s a pessimist and for the love of whatever deity you may or may not believe in, if we don’t pay more attention to mental health soon it will be the downfall of all happiness because it is spreading like a wave and the internet is only making things worse.
I could go on but I’m probably not important enough to sway your opinions with mine. And quite right too. Just don’t do what I did and stay silent for so long that you begin to lose sight of who you really are. Everybody has an opinion, and even if you don’t want to step up and voice it, make sure you don’t hide behind something when you’re called upon to make a stand.
Oh, and anyone who thinks that swearing is indicative of low intelligence and a lack of professional thinking can royally go and fuck themselves.
Perpetually Perturbed 