The Mind of Murph

Timeout! Timeout!

Look I’ll make this brief since I have other things that need doing.
Let me tell you (again) my thoughts on this whole “be yourself (but not really be yourself)” thing as well as humanity as a whole.

I hate the fact that we’re suppose to bottle up how I feel. If I feel, I FEEL I should be able to express myself. Now don’t look to into and say, “Hey Darnell! What if I feel like expressing myself with a car bombing in DC?”

NO!

That shit is NOT cool! I mean express yourself as in, not having to bite your tongue and tell lies instead of the truth. Far too often are we trying to give people the run around instead of a straight answer. I find it very dumb and very demeaning. We’re all human so what’s the point of trying to act like you’re not. Granted there is a way to be tactful about it.

EXAMPLE:
Little Jimmy hates Sarah Jessica Parker. Instead of Little Jimmy saying, “Go die in a fire” maybe he can say, “Ms. Sarah Jessica Parker I feel that there is some animosity between us and i would like to remedy that.”
Little Jimmy is a fucking GENIUS! Not only did he convey his HONEST opinions but he was upfront about it.

 If you hate someone either don’t engage them or call them out on their shit in a civil manner. Same thing goes for the opposite. If you like someone who gives a fuck. Affection is what keeps us sane and helps us grow. Even the most fucked of people have someone (or something, I don’t know) they care about deeply. Why should we have to edit ourselves and speak in code when we can be honest about it. Not saying it’ll be a perfect world where people openly speak their minds but it’s one step closer to a better world. Only thing we’d need then is understanding but hey one problem at a time.

Let’s take relationships for instance. Why? Well because everyone at some point or another gets involved in one in some sort of way, however for this exercise let’s take “starting a relationship”.

Now you like someone. Good for you love is a beautiful thing. How do you go about it? or what should you do?

*think about it*

Did you guess, “Be yourself”?

If so I can guarantee that you’ve been told that unless you’re some awful person then maybe you might want to be someone else.
-Wait I’m getting off topic. Back to the topic.
 Now when people say “be yourself” what they ACTUALLY MEAN is “do stuff that you may do but do it in a “better” way which is probably a way you wouldn’t do it at all”
-By the way feel free to disagree with me. I mean shit, I don’t know much but what I think I know I do.
So you get this BS “be yourself” crap but they don’t necessarily mean to do that which I find highly annoying. Just tell me to not be myself and at least you’re being honest in which case I’d tell you to go fuck yourself.

I really dragged this on a lot longer than I intended to so let me just summarize (yep I made you read all that when I guess you could have just read this next part… my bad)

People are too busy censoring themselves that sometimes we forget to truly be who we are.

I think that we just need to be honest and more importantly we need to be honest with ourselves. If you like to sing Justin Beiber in your car sing that shit. I’ll give you crap for it, sure, but at the end of the day you’ll be you and let me tell you that you are the best you that you can possibly be. Facts. So try to go out more and say what you want to say. Do what you want to do. Feel what ya want to feel and don’t let anyone trick you into censoring yourself.

Okay Time-in.