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The Revelation of Emotion
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The Revelation of Emotion |
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UNTAMEDelegance Member
since 2009-05-30
Posts 222Oregon |
Tonight I had a revelation. I used to look up to people who were older than me. I still do. I thought about how when I was younger I wanted to be like my sister. I wanted to be sixteen and pretty and I wanted to feel like I was in control. Now I'm sixteen. I don't always feel pretty and I almost never feel in control. But I've learned to hide the uncertainty behind my face. Then I thought about my mother. Now forty-something (she won't tell). I always hate that she never shows hardly any emotion. Not many adults do. I used to think that for some reason life had sapped their feelings; taken away their ability to feel any emotions at all. That adults just didn't feel the vibrant emotions like a five-year-old; like a sixteen-year-old. But I realized, they feel the emotions the same as me, at age sixteen, uncertain and unsure. But they've learned to hide them, better than I. I used to look up to people who were older than me. I still do. But now I do more. Not because they've learned to mask their feelings so, so well. But because I now know that they HAVE the emotions to hide. |
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Kaoru
since 2003-06-07
Posts 3892where the wild flowers grow |
Wow. Color me impressed, you managed to captivate MY emotions, and technically, I'm an adult. My mom seems like a robot sometimes, too, but I know better and she hates that. I, on the other hand, am a big ball of over expressed emotions..and everyone I know knows it, and I hate that. I don't hide them because I feel like they're a gift and nothing to be ashamed of. I liked this poem, it evoked something within. Well done! |
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Oklahoma Rose Senior Member
since 2008-02-28
Posts 1586Oklahoma USA |
This is a wonderful write. |
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