"It's what the demon wants."

Living here, born into a typical family in this country, we are instilled with the idea that everyone is inherently good. All that is foul comes from the demon that is inside everyone.

Why, then, we execute those people that kill others instead of exorcising these demons out? Wouldn't that be a better solution? No harm done, just the demons being chased out of their physical container.

Deciphering my own thoughts, filtering out the ideas that other people force-feed into me since my childhood. It takes too much time. Protecting something is good, but please ensure that you can outlive those that you protect, if you are planning to cut off their ties to the outside world.

Here, the opinions of the young is easily ruled out as rebellious attempts to break out from the traditional mold. This is wrong, do this instead. That is right, but I won't tell you why. Keep doing that, it will sustain you in the future in ways you can't perceive.

I am tired. Trying to fight against the current is really not what I am suited to. However, I do not like the feeling that someone is holding a leash wrapped around my neck.

Am I something that this place declare as a failure of a generation? Of course, they rephrase it so that it doesn't come out as a negative thing, but it doesn't change that there are already labels being attached to everyone, like how they tag  the cattle in slaughterhouse.

If having thoughts of my own is a sin, if chasing after something that I really want to is wrong, why am I not being told why? Instead of admonishing it, dictating that it is unacceptable, an in-depth explanation would suffice.

What this place wants is people who would just wait for orders. Someone that cannot function without a higher-ups pulling their strings. Someone who lacks the desire to live for their own, and is fine being restricted as long as they are being paid.

Brain-drain is becoming much more common nowadays, and I feel that what I truly want is not from this place. I cannot say that out loud, though. We are shadows, and is forever locked into a vice that doesn't want us to grow.

No, stay here, they said, we'll provide for you, as long as you don't complain that it isn't enough.

I am sick, delirious, and is really wanting to rest, but peer pressure said I need to starve myself in order to be accepted into society.

Well, fuck off then. Such society filled with plastic bodies and faces, I don't want that.

Though, as I said that, it is the only society I have access to.