Wounded

Self-Harm

"Self-harm is a way of expressing and dealing with deep distress and emotional pain. As counter intuitive as it may sound to those on the outside, hurting yourself makes you feel better." 

Self- harm is dangerous and can be very addicting. It brings you relief. The problem is that the relief that comes from self-harming doesn't last very long. It’s like slapping on a Band-Aid when what you really need are stitches. It's hard to stop once you start doing it because it's like becoming your own drug.  

Calling it stupid would be the stupidest thing to say.

Cycle:

Vic Fuentes

Vic Fuentes, frontman of the band "Pierce The Veil", is one of the people I have looked up to and admired, and he will always be.

Adolf Hitler

This caught my attention and I'd like to share this with all of you.

(These comments are all from Tumblr and so is the picture above.)

rookieoftheday: Do you understand how scary this picture is?

silentknightley: god forbid a real person do real person things he wasn't just a robot who killed people 

uncalmly: uh yeah its not like he killed and tortured six million Jews or anything

queenaglaia: Hold on just a tick. Listen, I’m Jewish, so I’m perfectly capable of understanding that what he did was just…..well, there are no words for it. But let’s not round it up to simply Jews that got killed. It was six million people that died in those camps, not just Jews. Did you know that homosexuals were sent there, too? Yeah, I’m sure you did. They had to wear special little symbols on their clothes. Do you know what it was? It was a pink triangle.

It was six million PEOPLE. 

But you let that roll over in your mind for a while and you are going to forever see this man as a monster, but that’s not what he was. He was someone who thought he was truly doing something right for his nation, no matter how shitty he was doing it. Believe me when I say that I don’t like him. I really don’t. My grandfather’s brothers died in those camps, and my grandfather escaped to Spain, then to Mexico. He was lucky.

This is not a monster holding hands with a little girl.

This is Adolf Hitler, a man, holding hands with a little girl. 

Yeah. It’s fucking scary. It really is. Do you know why?

It’s because you’re seeing that he wasn't, in fact, a monster. You’re seeing in this picture that he was a man. He was a man, and that’s really the saddest part of it all.

221becquerel: As a History major who specializes in the history of early modern Europe, I've studied a lot of dictators in detail, not just Hitler. The number one mistake anyone could ever make in history is making the assumption that only inhuman monsters are capable of doing terrible things. 

Stop dehumanizing Hitler just so you can reassure yourself that “normal” humans aren't capable of doing bad things. Hitler liked children and dogs, he was a vegetarian and he cried like a little boy when his mother died. I’m not saying he was a good, innocent person, but when you stop attributing human characteristics to historical figures like Hitler, it’s how you overlook people just like him in real life, and it’s how people like him end up back in power.

lauriejuspeczyk: That’s the real truth: Human Beings are scarier than any ‘monsters’ out there because we’re all born blank slates and BECOME our legacy.

You see, all of us is no better than Hitler himself.

Society Killed The Teenager

"SOCIETY KILLED THE TEENAGER"

     The youth today are too often careless, aggressive, and irrational, they say. We are still young, we need guidance, and we want to be heard. Why do you think teenagers rebel? Is it because you don't give them what they want? No. Teenagers rebel because they are too often ignored, they are not taken seriously, they are not being listened to, and no one even dared try to understand them. Admit it, you judge a young lad with tattoos on his body. You assume that he is dangerous and that he does drugs or is a member of a gang. Well, did you ever tried to ask him what that tattoo meant to him? What is the story behind that particular tattoo? Take Kellin Quinn for example. He has a tattoo on his chest which says, "Before You I Serve Nothing". It stands for his faith. Oliver Sykes has a tattoo on his arm of a dead bird with a banner of the word "Betrayal". It is implied that he can never fully trust anyone again because his friends from High School backstabbed him and betrayed his trust. They painted their bodies because they wanted to show the world in what they believed in. 

     You see, that's the problem with society it judges too quickly. You outcast people because they're Black, Asian or Jew. Why is that? You point out people's flaws. You make them feel worthless and you make them believe that they can't change into someone better because you put them down and you crush their self- esteem's. Some others self- harm because people tell them they don't deserve to live. It crushes you and you feel like they're right. Some just commit suicide because they believe that's the permanent solution to a temporary problem.

     Society influences people. Whenever one discriminates the other, the other does the same with everyone around them. People should be careful with their words and actions because it's influential and it changes others. The youth of today may have been influenced by people around them to make them act so crudely and inconsiderate towards everyone because of that. Society is not society without its people. 

Be Yourself

     "Being yourself" seems to be such an overrated concept, for each of us have so many selves, of diverse mentalities. If you behave differently around different people, does it mean that you are putting on some kind of façade? No, of course not. It means that different people nourish different parts of you.

      I find it difficult to believe that there is ever a moment when any of us are not being ourselves; even the shy or the bitter parts are us. Even those of us who pretend to like things they don’t, or feel things that they don’t - well maybe the yearning to fit in is just a part of you as well.

     I think it is sort of beautiful that we each have endless possibilities of who we could be inside of us. I think it’s beautiful that we may not have found many of them, and that each day of our lives, we all have the potential to find an exquisite new part of ourselves. I think that that is a wonderfully valid reason to be alive; to give ourselves the chance to “be ourselves," to find parts of ourselves that we like even if there are always going to be parts that we don’t.

     Always be yourself, but be whoever that is to you, not who you are thought to be or expected to be. You can redesign yourself whenever you choose to do so, and it is your right as a human to live as you see fit. Live as someone that will make you proud, and always be willing to find new parts of yourself.

                                                                                                                 -Perception

Reflections

"After changing to fit into society, you’re eventually going to want your old self back sooner or later. So just be yourself, never sacrifice who you are just because someone has a problem with it."