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Apr 15, 2009, 09:56 AM
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You know, there is a piece of paper stapled onto a bulletin board in the resource room in school. It says "Sticks and stones may break our bones but words break our hearts." 
Me personally? I've gotten many mixed messages about speaking my mind. My friends, and pretty much society in the US encourages me to speak my mind. That if you want something you have to say it or else you will never get what you want because nobody is psychic and you can't expect other people to take the time and effort to play 20 questions and figure out what you want. For many years, I was a very quiet person. I pretty much had no opinion growing up, and if I did, I really didn't have a qualm putting another person above me. Of course when I hit my tween years I started bickering a lot with people... then the message I got was "pick your battles" because it's not a good idea to assert how you feel all of the time and have to let a few go apparently for the sake of life running smoothly. So now, I've gotten a bit wiser about such things. Now though, even when I don't fight over what I think is right and wrong, even though now most of the time I'm complacent, I don't do one thing, one little thing for someone because it's not something I do- suddenly I become this selfish and immature person who never thinks about anyone else but themselves and parents thought they raised a better person and acts like their five.  It's very frustrating...
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