Words hurt people-some people just don't really understand that simple fact. A perfect example of hurting people, or verbally abusing people, even if not intended would be the most common "You're fat." Commenting about some other person regarding their body weight or looks is something that I can never, ever do. But people these days find that teasing other people about something that that other person isn't proud of to be an entertaining activity. I mean, not that I'm so bloody high and mighty, but just think about it for one second, would YOU like it if you were called ugly, or fat, or any other rude word? I didn't think so. Perhaps you think that you're so amazing, so full of yourself-that you think that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you? Because that is just downright impossible. Who are you for you to think that you are superior than the members of your species? Not even the most important of individuals should claim superiority over normal people, I say.
People often overestimate and underestimate their own capabilities. But isn't that humane? Being imperfect; being stupid. Overestimating oneself has it's ups and downs, just like the latter, but we'll get to that later. Overestimating oneself can be devastatingly regrettable, because when a cup is full, it's goddamn full. Stop telling yourself that you can add more water into it. It'll overflow, and the water that leaves the cup will leave everything around it soaked, in other words a huge mess. What about underestimating oneself? Giving up when the competition hasn't even begun? Wouldn't we be leaving too much out? Shouldn't we at least try? Underestimating yourself will never get you anywhere, be it just the easiest of tasks, or the toughest of requests..nothing will ever be done. But how exactly do we know that we've reached our limits? How the hell can we possibly know? I've been told, and heard of over and over again in difference forms the same sentence throughout the years of my life.
"Try your best! As long as you've given your very best, success or failure does not matter." is what I've compiled and rearranged the words into. Yes, trying your very best is all that counts, because that means that you've given it your all, and not overestimating nor underestimating yourself. But how exactly do we know what does "your very best" mean? To me, "trying your very best" can only yield fruition. If you don't attain what you set out for in the end, your half-assed struggles were in vain. You've wasted your time. But then again, that's only what I think. Me.
"You needn't care of what others mind" is something that I've also heard of for quite some time. But how far does the truth dwell in that piece of advice? Let me just simply start things off by asking this: Why do you wear clothes? Nice clothes, tattered clothes, whatever. Do not, for a second think of answering to this question by saying to shield your body from the eyes of others, or because this is what you were educated to do. Because if you do, notice that the first thing that you'd think about is what would other people think about you without a silk on your body. What would other people think? Isn't it ironic? Weren't we always told that we're live for ourselves when our daily lives are intertwined with the judgmental stares of the people around us? What we do, what we wear, what we say.. Every single bloody thing, in fact, is linked together with the way others think about us.
Is it because of how we were educated? To be socially acceptable in the eyes of others? If it were so, isn't everything a huge lie? To be ourselves, to do whatever we want and all that hullabaloo. How about this, we live to be accepted by other people. When killing ourselves are "not an option", even though it's our lives that we're ending, when wearing boxers to work is called being disrespectful, when before doing what we want, we've to go through a series of tests before announcing our actions as "acceptable"? I question everything, but what I've figured out right now is that living isn't fully for ourselves, but rather, most of it for the people that we love and care about, and only a little bit for ourselves. The society can burn, for all I care.
This has been a rather..messy catch from the abysmal ocean of my thoughts.
There's so much I want to express, but cannot find the right mindset to just yet. Ah well, perhaps another time.
