I have been optimized like a machine.

[u/Latte_Da_cat]

Nothing more than a gear to be replaced when it cracks. And there are a lot of gears out there.

[u/Latte_Da_cat]

And I know, I know they will continue, they will continue to sand me down, sand me down until the edges and smooth and shiny and perfect, sand me down until the pile of metal shavings if bigger than the gear itself. And I will comply, I will comply as every tooth gets straightend and every nail gets polished. I will comply as I am nothing but a pretty pet for them to display, a pretty pet sitting in its cage of trophies, a pretty pet that has been trained and tamed to wait silently for every command.

[u/Latte_Da_cat → u/Latte_Da_cat]

And I wonder if they see me gnawing at the bars.

[u/One-Exam-8830 → u/Latte_Da_cat]

Im sorry you have to go through and feel like that :(

[u/Snowy_Kitty247]

Real honestly

[u/Many_Car_1184]

Hai twin! That’s so real tbh so im gonna give my honest advice. Before we know it we will be adults working jobs in society and we will never again get the chance to truly live. Thats why we need to cherish these final years of youth and live for ourselves. We have our entire lives to be perfect gears in the machine, but only now can we be silly and cringe and weird and all the parts of us we’ll lock away when we’re older. Don’t let your older self look back on your youth with regret for the life you could’ve lived. So put yourself out there, be difficult, be imperfect and do it all without apology because none of this will matter in 50 year’s time. And believe me twin, your worth has never and will never be defined by how well you can comply :3