The Beast and The Scared Beauty

Jake Just because someone is smiling doesn't mean they are happy. Sometimes their smiles are only a medium to hide the pain that's beneath, or a medium to not look vulnerable around the people in their life. Nobody knows or cares to know that behind the smile hides the sadness and the pain that they’re trying to hide from everyone. We live in a world where we are like people and are sometimes too afraid to show their real emotions. Why is it because we live in a world where somehow we are judgmental? Maybe we haven’t even realized it, somehow, but we judge others by how a person looks, how they dress, what they eat are just simple things, but still we can’t help ourselves but to judge someone by their choices in life, and sometimes, or things that might not even be in their control, like height, skin color, nationality the list goes on and on. I'm not saying everyone is bad, but there are some who influence others by making them do what they like or want them to do. Look around and who knows one of them is standing right beside you? You never know. One can never say or know about a person without knowing them. That’s why maybe sometimes we are even conscious of simple and easy things in life. There was a time when I was innocent as a child and thought every person around me was as good as me, but what I don’t know is the lies and poker faces that some people have mastered to fool others. It was that day and now so much has changed. My innocent heart is rotten and no matter how good or close a person is to me, I never trust them, not once. No one wants to repeat the same mistake twice. That’s why they choose to be cautious. In an environment where being kind is taken for granted or someone's weakness, I choose to be happy even when selfish, learning the lesson that no one can make me happy but me, no one can protect me but myself. And I don’t care for others, if they want to be taken care of, they have to do it themselves like I did, or learned to do it. I once trusted someone and look where I’m right now, a place where there is nothing but darkness, where the day starts with someone else’s pain and ends with someone else’s pain. A place where there is no good, no kindness, no happiness, but darkness. A name so beautiful, but here lies the beast that everyone’s scared of.