A Sea Of Our Own Hypocrisy...

I have often found it strange how the world's lines on people are often double crossed or overlapping. That in some cases, to keep one person or groups' rights, you must take away another's. That you could be an angel sent from heaven, but to some people, that angel is nothing but the apparition of the devil. The line between right and wrong, of presentable and garbage, of what should offend people and what merely strikes at one's pride, is so mixed together that it is almost like everyone sees a different line and a different view.

What I have found growing up is, weakness, trials and tribulation, and even successes are often suppose to be kept to yourself.  If one vented to someone about their messed up family life, they were called a whiner. If one talked about the things they had to go through, the pain, issues, trials they had to over come, they were looked at as a liar or seeking attention. If someone uses their past as a reason or clarification on why they act the way they do, they looked at as weak. Some people may see the individual and see their strength and their light but yet there is such an over powering about of voices that saw that same strength as instead  higher oneself. . When did surviving, getting perspective or growing up become something different than being strong or wise, but instead, it made you defective or inferior.

If you stand for what you believe in, whether that be in a god or traditional marriage, people may tell you that you are prejudice and hateful. If you are atheist or just don't believe in a higher being and don't care about traditional values, or see their importance, you can be judged and looked at as a sadist. If you have a happy childhood with loving parents and happy memories, you were sheltered. If you had a messed up childhood and fell into some really rocky situations made by bad choices, you are a failure. If you had horrific challenges tossed at you from every direction, and you still got back up and kept moving forward, god forbid you say even a sentence of your past, they probably will tell you that you are begging for validation and attention.

No matter how good of a person you may be, no matter how pure your intentions truly are, there will still be people who see you as nothing more than a self absorbed no good piece of trash, and that pains my heart. There are so many people in this world who have such magnificent and wonderful personalities and hearts that are tossed away because of ill conceived judgements. Good men and women who are kicked down because they have compassion. Honest people lied to because a person sees manipulation and lies as a way to get ahead.

I know that there is good in the world. I know that there are good people out there trying to make a difference everyday and are often over looked. I also know that I am not perfect. People wonder why the world seems to be running into the fire that can drive us straight  to hell, but in reality it is because we are drowning in a sea of our own hypocrisy that we don't realize that most of us are the ones that are leading us to our destruction.