speaking out.

a lot of us have difficulty speaking out what we think and how we feel.

sometimes, there are opportunities that we let pass simply because we felt we were not ready to bare our minds and our emotions to others.

for some who have seized the opportunity to speak out, the result was not always what they would have wanted thus they decry having seized the opportunity at all. better to have bitten their lips and said nothing. and they go into a “once bitten, twice shy” mode.

for some who seized the opportunity to speak out, the result was so overwhelming it opened doors for them. better to have said it all out, thereby clearing the path for the future. and they espouse the motto,  “nothing ventured, nothing gained”.

but how we seize the opportunity to speak out, either way, it always turns out that it changes our lives.
changes us in how we deal or not deal with others in the issues affecting them.

but shouldn’t we be more open to speaking out  to our family? to our friends? presumably, these are the people who are mostly likely not to judge us but to accept us for what we are.

for isn’t it how people judge us that we are most wary of?

surely, family and friends will accept as for what we are. but we need to let them know how we feel and see things, different they may be.