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"A friend is someone who sees through you and still enjoys the view" - Wilma Askinas

I also have a story idea now, but I figured I'd put this here so that you guys could cut it down, the great friends that you are.

I really have no idea whether I should be happy, or sad, all the time, or not at all, because being in between has no sway. Because, I like being sad sometimes, it just feels...not good. But right.

Unfortunately, it's somehow met with a great deal of resistance, not just by people I don't know, but rather disturbingly, by the people I DO know. And it's rather evident in some questions which are asked, and I am quite irritated that I have to answer with "Just leave them be.", because I can't do anything, I shouldn't do anything, and why should they, in any sense, be asking. If you can't very well figure it out for yourself, then don't bother, at all.

I'm being very vague, because I don't want the person that I'm talking about to feel offended that I am talking about them, and also because if they wanted to know what stupid and insensitive things were/are said about them, then they could ask the person who said them.

"An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect." - Mark Twain

So Aereas, don't bloody ask me. Go ask him yourself. You'll get more fruit by plucking it from the tree yourself, than getting someone else who is just as dishonest to pluck it for you.

You know all about filtered medium and language.

Of course, advice is only as useful as the ears who listen to it, so if they don't want to listen, then fine. But I don't want to have to keep pretending to be someone I'm not, just so that people can be safe, secure, in their little bubble.

I don't see why this can be good, why this can't be bad, why this or that is how it is. We learn about fluidity, we learn about acceptance. But what has really happened in the 10 or so years or Harmony Day? I believe not much. I see my brother going to Harmony Day. All he cares about is his orange ribbon. Why.

I'm....

I'm angry, sad, nostalgic, rather bitter. But the main point is. Why should you care?

"Sometimes you feel other people's pain worse than your own. We're armored against our own troubles. We can't afford to give in to despair. Then you see someone else struggling, and it breaks your... heart."

So tell me, why must you know why someone does what they do. Why must you ask someone other than the actual person what they are thinking, what they are feeling. Is it because you are scared? Perhaps.

I have no use for those who cannot feel. Who do not know what to do when they see someone in distress, whether it obvious, or silent. I have no use for those people who would seek to make a mockery of everything.

There is such a thing as the erosion of truth, the erosion of values.

"The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him." - Cicero.

I have no more use for the people who would not say anything meaningful to this. Who instead, say "TL;DR" who, would instead rather go back into their little bubbles, their little worlds. If you did not care, then please don't try to even make a motion to understand, don't even make any motion at all at a later date. Don't pretend you care. It's just so much easier later to know who really cares, and who doesn't.

"Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide."

You know what I say to people who think that subject X is stupid, or subject Y is useless outside the parameters of school? GO QUIT. No one is forcing you to do them. It would be much better if you didn't. If you can't quit it, then too bad. Live with it. Deal with it. Complaining to the wrong people isn't going to do much, either.

I believe...that the reason why you have education, whether it be english, maths, science, whatever, is so you can truly learn to function; so you can learn for yourself, to appreciate the world, to know what is boring, what is good, what is bad, what is cultured, what is not.

"No matter how many solutions are given to them, they just keep finding on some other issue to stall on because they don't have the right patterns internalized." - Ver, "How to Improve"

If you don't have the framework to learn, to live, to love. How can you possibly do any of those?

I think I'll...do something with this sometime.

"When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it." - Edgar Watson Howe.

I write so that someone, who cares, and I care about them would look, and know. Because what point is writing, if it serves absolutely not purpose.

So don't tell me that I'm emo.

Don't tell me I can't be sad.

Don't tell me that it'll be alright.

Don't belittle me.

Don't even try to do any of those.

Because where will it end up for you? Nowhere, and a very angry me.

Hoping Isaac doesn't read this. Because he is, apart from me, one of the most insensitive people I know. Perhaps Goh, Her, and Tom come somewhere else on the scale. I don't know.