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We set fire to that ****** emotion chart with nothing but a bic lighter and a gut feeling of revenge. How dare they try to limit our feelings to a piece of paper, how dare they assume the tsunami we’ve felt in our chests since we were old enough to understand the words ‘I’m sorry’ can be labeled as simply as ‘today I’m feeling ‘sad’ Today I am feeling enfeebled, belligerent, subdued. impassable; Today I am feeling words you will never find on a cookie cutter hand out given to you by your therapist. We watched the flames grow and destroy those childish faces in hopes of it feeling something, it feeling our hatred or our underlying sadness and maybe then it would understand that one should be labeled ‘ignorant’ for thinking someone could put a name to a feeling or emotion and call it good enough.
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Jul 28, 2014
Jul 28, 2014 at 12:51 PM UTC
And How Does That Make You Feel?
We set fire to that ****** emotion chart with nothing but a bic lighter and a gut feeling of revenge. How dare they try to limit our feelings to a piece of paper, how dare they assume the tsunami we’ve felt in our chests since we were old enough to understand the words ‘I’m sorry’ can be labeled as simply as ‘today I’m feeling ‘sad’ Today I am feeling enfeebled, belligerent, subdued. impassable; Today I am feeling words you will never find on a cookie cutter hand out given to you by your therapist. We watched the flames grow and destroy those childish faces in hopes of it feeling something, it feeling our hatred or our underlying sadness and maybe then it would understand that one should be labeled ‘ignorant’ for thinking someone could put a name to a feeling or emotion and call it good enough.
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Jul 28, 2014
Jul 28, 2014 at 12:51 PM UTC
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