We're Broken Puzzle Pieces
by @lynette-chiamaka-okoroike
Over 7 Billion People living in this world.
7 BILLION.
And each and every one of them is trying to “FIT IN” in their societies.
They tried.
And tried.
AND TRIED.
But they just don’t seem
To overcome that obstacle.
We’re broken.
We’re just broken.
I am one of them.
I have tried to put myself out there
Over and over again
With the result of ME being REJECTED
Or worse, DEFEATED
Several times.
It happened to me when
I’m APPLYING for
JOBS,
AUDITIONING for an ACTING ROLE in
THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS,
COMPETING in a global
ALL-FEMALE MUSIC COMPETITION
A few months back,
Or any other individual competitions
A few years back,
WRITING a BUNCH of POETRIES and PERSONAL NARRATIVES,
TRYING to BE ACCEPTED to or BECOME a part of
different kinds of social groups
(Sometimes it gets awkward),
TRYING to get some people to
Sign up, contribute, and support a
Campaign that I’m involved in,
With the result of me
NOT FITTING IN.
It even happened to me
When I’ve made a lot
Of MISTAKES,
Both big and small,
And not LIVING UP
To their STANDARDS.
Also even when I TRIED
To COMMUNICATE my ideas and opinions with
Other people,
I would ALWAYS get
SHUT DOWN.
I’m CRUSHED,
HEARTBROKEN,
A FAILURE,
UNSUCCESSFUL,
And I just feel like that
I JUST WANT TO GIVE UP.
NOBODY is paying ATTENTION
To ME.
NOBODY CARES
About ME.
Even my family’s RELATIVES
Or someone else,
Don’t CARE with what I’m
DOING WITH MY LIFE,
And it’s all because
THEY DON’T ASK ABOUT ME.
Sometimes they’ve
MISTAKEN me for my
Older sister
Or someone else’s daughter
that looks like me.
I’m also ALONE
Because most of my “come-and-go” friends
ARE TOO BUSY
Living out their own lives
Just to HANG OUT WITH ME.
I JUST WANTED SOMEBODY
TO TALK TO OR TO HANG OUT WITH.
I don’t have one TRUE BEST FRIEND.
It’s kind of hard for me to find just ONE.
Sometimes I feel like that my life
Is SO NOT WORTH IT,
And that I just want to DIE.
What’s the use of me
LIVING THIS LIFE?
Many people are exactly like me; trying so hard doing what they love just to get a foot in the door and yet they don’t feel right at home because the society doesn’t want them just yet. Some of them are alone and need a friend, like me.
I feel like I’m experiencing “quarter-life crisis”
I am ready to start living my life doing what I love or get a job so that I can start taking care of myself; why is anyone not paying attention to me?
Worldly problems: Politics (Democratic/Republican), Christianity (Catholic/Protestant), Religion (Christian/Muslim), Gun Violence (Debates of Rights to bear arms), War on Terror, Protests (Occupy Wall Street or any major U.S. city), Homosexuals/Heterosexuals, Abuse (Physical/Sexual), Human and Sex Trafficking, Abortion, People Hating Other People, etc.
We need to set aside our differences so that we can work together and come up with a solution that will help solve our problems
We need to be open to other opinions, not only defending our own opinions.
We need to start loving each other no matter what side of the worldly problem we are on.
What’s with the arguments? Can’t we at least get along like regular people?
Each and every one of us is like a broken puzzle piece because we are having a hard time trying to get along when it comes to worldly problems/issues, trying to fit in with the society, and we are struggling to get to where we are going in our lives or to overcome our obstacles or rather come to an agreement. We are also trying to figure out who we are as human beings (Social Location).
We need to just piece together ourselves and then help each other out to piece together this world. We need to bring everything together and come together as one body, one diverse melting pot and become one loving group. It’s not going to be easy, but we need to start somewhere.
We need to become one big jigsaw puzzle which is the world and we will try hard at whatever we’re doing to help keep it that way as well as taking care of our surrounding environment.