We Are Humans
Posted by Iffah on February 29, 2012 in Blog
We’re all walking around with these glossy eyes.
“I’m just tired,” we say. But you know what?
It’s bullshit. Yes, we are tired, but it’s not from
the lack of sleep. We are tired of waking up with nothing to look
forward to, tired of going to bed exhausted after doing a million
things we find no enjoyment in doing. We’re tired of this
void, this emptiness that looms over us even though our days are
packed. We’re tired of the loneliness that presses down on
us even though we’re surrounded by dozens of people.
So why can’t we just say it? Humans are so afraid to look
into each other’s eyes and say “I am unhappy, I am
broken, I am fallible.” We’ve been conditioned to
associate pain with weakness, sadness with coldness, loneliness
with unworthiness, difference with disease, as if these feelings
are contagious, as if ambivalence is something not to be felt but
to be feared.
Well, I say screw all of that. Screw forced smiles and polite
handshakes and I’m fine, thank you. Screw the fear of
crying in public place, screw the fake chipper voice, screw the
lies we spit out to cover up our problems. We are humans. We are
meant to feel. To feel everything and to feel it openly. We are
not metal – we are flesh and bone. Our boiled blood courses
through our cold, clammy hands. We are intricate and beautiful
and we should never hide our human parts, because if we do, then
what’s left to show?