errosion

You are responsible for how you feel.
You are responsible for how you deal with recurring waves of stimuli.
It is a slight and in the least a lie to say
"Tis you and no one else that made me feel a certain way"
No.

A person in this world can never feel responsible
for myriad things that happen in the facets of this cosmos
the things which people say will never bend at your control
the least of which the things that other people do to you.
Never you'll be asked permission for the things the world will throw at you
and you are wrong to seek to change those things.
the only place you have control over in all the cosmos' offering
is how you will react to things that filter through your brain

through your eyes
through your touch
through your ears

If a sentient being goes to say "I am offended"
As far as I can tell it is the same as saying
"I have no control
over my emotional
response to stimuli that this world is displaying "

"You need to change the things you say and then apologize"
is to say "I am too weak to handle my own life
and I demand that others take responsibility
I find that life is just to hard, so please live my life for me"

You operate under the blank illusion of control
when setting up the trust in others for the steering role.
The delusion is you wont allow yourself be treated thus
but one thing than another to the strangers you give trust.

The limited control we do have over our own minds,
aught be closely guarded and kept in check at all of times
not handed o'er to anyone that comes across our senses.
Your reaction to all things should lie behind defenses.

Should anyone with ideas that run contrary to your own
be given open access to your mind as 'twer a home?
in doing so we take the keys
our most precious commodity
our individuality
and give it over openly

Would you steer your own life?
Then demand nothing of others.
Demand only of yourself.

Does something make you uncomfortable?
So be it.
Does something wrench your heart?
So be it.

We live in such a world that you can freely share your feelings.
Do not bottle up the way you interpret the world around you.
With constant positive motion you can advance the world toward truth.
But not by stripping others of the same right to speak freely,
only by the light of every eye can happiness be seen.

In the halls of free discussion all people find the world that we deserve
but, it becomes eroded by a systematic silence implemented from birth
We long to live as will decides lest we fall to insanity.
We cannot strip the species of this core of our humanity.

Take responsibility for YOUR actions.
Change the world by YOUR choices.
To expect others to bend to the whim of your emotions is the way of a dictator.
And it is that mindset that allows the rise of dictators.
Be fearful of the minds that say:
"I don't like what you say, and you will be punished for it"
No matter how acidic,
No matter how offensive,
No matter what a person says,
It is the right of a thinking being to say what ever they feel to say.

It is only in the arena of actions
that consequences should be lasting.
If a person seeks to poison the world with their hateful words,
the responsibility of opposition is to use the same platform.

Respond to word with words.
Respond to action with actions.
Do not punish a silly speech as if  it were a murderous infraction.

If someone disagrees with you do nothing to silence them
but a challenge should be made upon the field of free discussion
Rationality prevails.
It always has.

Only through the reaction to hateful words with hateful actions
is our intellectual progression eroded.