Saturday, April 15, 2006

Why are we the way we are?

What makes you want to say the things that you do?

How can someone be so unafraid to make her opinion known so often, and yet keep quiet when it doesn't look like anything will change?

Does it have to change?

Does that have to be necessary for you to say what must be said?

Does it matter that you always feel like an outsider?

Why not say what must be said and let them see the other side of the coin?

Say something. You're not as invisible as they'd like to think you are. Someone's had to say something about this all along.

Remember the few people who know what you think?

They know what you're afraid of. They know why you haven't said anything for so long.

But now someone else has broken the silence. And it makes you think, doesn't it? Does there have to be someone who will listen before you can put your words out there?

It's true that sometimes, Arts students don't have give a damn what everyone else thinks. It's true that you can never shut us up, push us aside, hide us away and hope that we'll stay hidden.

Words, once they're out there, take on a life of their own.

I think it's time.

This is the last stretch now anyway; they can't do anything to you anymore. It's better that things change now rather than never. It's time to turn the whole power structure on its head.

Because social stability at the expense of social change is never a good thing.

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