It's all on you.

♫ Halsey — "Castle"

For the first time in many months, I've started writing poems again. I absolutely hold the responsibility of abandoning this part of me that I had promised to do more often but I guess I just got slipped away without even realizing it.

I spent so much time worrying if my poems would be too sad because most of them were inspired by the tragedies that happened around me (mine too, of course) and I completely forgot that sadness is just the essence of it. It's not wrong because sadness can be a beautiful thing, right?

I'm here to talk about how people complained about getting unwanted feedbacks on their social media (over their personal thoughts) and it really baffles me because first thing's first; the thoughts was publicizied with your own consent. It simply means you are automatically exposing yourself to criticism whether you'd like it or not. It's just so weird, to be blaming people for not understanding where you're coming from when it's pretty clear that people would judge you based on what you chose to show them. You want to talk about keeping it real and yet when people gave you a piece of their mind about it, you decided to be taken aback by it. Because hello, everyone is entitled to their opinion right? And you should have known everyone can say whatever they want to you the same way you have the right to post whatever the heck you want on your social media.

It's no rocket science, really. You just need to instill a small amount of common sense to look at things this way.

That's why I chose to reorganize my social media. I don't post my poems to my instagram anymore because I whined about people taking my stuffs without crediting, I made a fuss about people copying my stuff, and I cringed a lot over the similarities that I see from people who claimed to dislike me - for what? I made it all public in the first place, isn't it? And then I have the nerve to talk about my bits and pieces of life being stolen? I should have known earlier that I cast that upon myself. That's why I prefer my instagram to be more "catalogue-ish" now - because I want to have the total control of what people can see and what should remain to my eyes only. The same thing goes to my Facebook. I could rant about the every aspect of my life on it but what's the freaking point really, when I couldn't even handle a simple criticism? So yeah, that explains the seldom usage of this one particular social network.

But of course there would be voices saying that my life is not as perfect as it seems on my social media because I only choose to show people the good parts of it. How can you be so sure, oh my darling? What if the ones I showed on my social media were the definition of normal to me? And that I've been keeping the great ones all to myself? Hah. Some people just crack me up but oh well, we can't please everybody now can we?

So yeah, be responsible over your own thoughts okay. Don't go around getting butthurt because someone out of the 100 people who support you decided to not agree with whatever you're saying on that one fine day. You're better than that.

This is a genuine advice by the way. Have a nice day!