To speak your mind

The words you say are not the words you feel. They are a censored version created to make everyone happy and to keep you safe from judgement. It is not your fault, everyone does it. We are all so afraid of what other people think that we forget about how we feel. We forget the freedom honest words can earn you, we remember only the pain we feel when our ideas are thrown to the ground. And, sometimes they are. That pain is more physical than it should be. It feels as though a part of you has died and will never come back. You can never believe that again, it is wrong, and will never be right. No wonder progress is slow, the whole world has a bad habit of pandering. We wand to look and sound good for everyone else because what they say matters more. It shouldn't. We need to start caring more about what needs to be done and less about what the "important" people will think about it. Not every idea can be amazing, but that doesn't mean that you should never share one, what if you have the idea that will change the world and you hid it away to become perfect in a dusty corner of your mind. However bad it feels to share an idea and have it trashed, it is worse to have the chance to save a life and throw it away.