Don’t Feel Stupid for Standing up for What you Believe In

It’s incredibly brave

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I’ve never been able to hold my tongue. Sure, I can do it for two minutes during a meeting and wait until a better opportunity arises to voice my opinions, I’m not a complete animal, but I’d have to bring up the issues. Sometimes, it takes me a day to mull over the thoughts to get them just right, other times the words come spewing out of my mouth, so fast and forcefully I can never control them. Either way, I’d feel the need to say something.

There have been many times in life where things weren’t being done the right way. Not in my way or the highway, although that is also true, but they weren’t so...ethical. As a teenager and a young adult, I’d be nervous to speak my mind. If something was really awful, I’d eventually say something, but it would take me days to summon the courage and I would feel shame for rocking the boat.

I’ve been taught to keep my head down and not cause a scene in most anywhere in life. I was to be respectful and grateful for opportunities. Employers were always supposed to know best, I should listen to authority, I shouldn’t start shit with friends or family.

All in all, these are good things to be taught. People are a little bit too disrespectful nowadays (just google way too many people spitting at employees…