Song is Internet Personas Image edited by me on pixlr - - - Okay, I just really needed to get this off my chest. This rant is kind of caused by recent events, kind of not, but this has been happening to me all my life and I just really need to rant about it. Let's start this off by making this clear: I'm a happy person. In most of my friend groups, I'm the optimist, I'm the joker, I'm the one that cheers you up when you're sad. I'm the ray of sunshine. Before you ask, I am a genuinely happy person. I'm not faking it. And you know what? I'm not perfect either. Things happen to me, too. Bad things. I have problems too and they cause me to get stressed, get mad, get upset, cry. Just like they do to you. There's probably someone in your life you consider a ray of sunshine or a precious cinnamon roll or whatever, but they feel just like you do. I think you can see where I'm going with this, but please keep reading. HAPPY PEOPLE CAN GET UPSET TOO. I don't know why some people don't know this. I don't know how this isn't a well-known fact. I don't know how this isn't in the dictionary of life. But HAPPY PEOPLE FEEL OTHER EMOTIONS THAN HAPPINESS JUST LIKE YOU DO. If your ray of sunshine precious cinnamon roll joker friend is crying? Don't assume it's because of something dumb. Don't treat them like a crying child. You treat them like you would with anyone else. If your ray of sunshine precious cinnamon roll joker friend is angry? Take them seriously. Don't think it's funny and exotic. Don't treat them like a toddler throwing a tantrum. If your ray of sunshine precious cinnamon roll joker friend tells you to stop? You stop. You're making them uncomfortable. Just because they might not get as mad as your other friends when you make the same mistake again DOES NOT IN ANY AWAY EXCUSE YOUR ACTIONS. If something is going on in your ray of sunshine precious cinnamon roll joker friend's life? If they're going through problems? Don't you dare dumb them down. Don't assume or say that your problems are so much worse then theirs because they bounce back quicker then you do. Happy people are not children. Do not ever assume you know how they're feeling during hard times if your assumption is going to be along the lines of "They're fine! They're always fine! They always get better afterwards. What's that? I hurt their feelings? Well, they'll get over it. Why should it matter?" I had these really bad friends. Key word: HAD. And I feel like if they took me seriously, the friendship would have worked out. If just FREAKING UNDERSTOOD that I feel the same things they do, that's it not okay to do things to me that I'm not okay with just because they know I'm too scared to say it and I'll "bounce back" from it, the friendship would have worked out. Guess what?! They didn't! And now instead of what could have been a strong bond, we have a ruined friendship because I was being treated like a child. And the worst part is? When you treat a happy person like that just because they're bubbly and sweet? It hurts. It really hurts. And you can't say anything about it because no one will believe you. Some people do it without realizing. I can see it in their eyes that they're skeptical when I talk to them about certain things. Or they feel like they have a responsibility over my feelings, which I guess is fine, but they take it to the point where they think I can't stand up or protect myself, that they have to act like my parents. It's okay to want to protect your friend and not want to see them get hurt. But doing that to one specific friend just because they're happy? STOP. This isn't directed to anyone on Scratch,, so if you're active on Scratch it's not about you. But to everyone else,, Take me seriously. Respect me. Understand I feel things. If you don't, it hurts, it ruins our friendship or whatever relationship we have, it makes me feel like a child. -----Thiswasreallycringysorry-------
