All my life I was known as a sunshine to my friends, the girl who was either endlessly smiling or humorously bitching about people, life and everything in between. I felt optimistic and happy in a crowd, I trusted people too easily, loved too much, maybe too often genuinely caring and worrying about those who I considered 'friends'.
Lately though, it seems like everything I believed in is being proven wrong, things like love, faith, goodness in human nature, compassion, gratitude. Am I too much of a hippie, have I been too naive to believe that destinies and fate exist? That love will always win in the end? That people can change, slowly but surely, because self-improvement should always be a lifelong goal? That working together means mutual respect for each other? That gratitude for people who genuinely care for you is an inherent feeling? That friendship is precious?
It's like, something's telling me to wake up and be more realistic. That reality is all about survival, and the only way to survive is to be egoistic, cold-hearted, jaded and pessimistic about everything and everyone around you. It's all about bringing other people down so you can be the only one on top. Hurt everyone else before someone hurts you.
I don't want to be like that 30-something woman who laughed at my Winnie the Pooh notebook on my first day of work because she had lost the ability to feel happy about insignificant, small, cute things and preferred to have a 'serious and strict' appearance. I don't want to be that 50-something woman who felt that she should compare herself to younger girls who could've been her daughters just to make herself feel better. I don't want to be bitter as I grow older.
But it seems inevitable when you're surrounded by the generation of the jaded, by people who betray you just to make themselves look better, by people who don't seem to appreciate you, and by people who are just fucking negative all the fucking time.
Fuck, growing up's a bitch.