Monsters

Sometimes you need to be a failure to be someone’s favorite.

Sometimes all you need is to become docile and all fragile just to be in favor.

Sometimes you need to be meek and mutilated just to boost someone else’s ego.

They demand you be weak to earn their attention.

The echo of false ego!

Sometimes you can’t be yourself in the shadow of selfish beings on the planet.

Sometimes, all they do is sabotage you.

All they want to do is feel superior.

All they want to do is exploit the weaker and

feel the strength of power by doubling your misery—

That gives them ultimate satisfaction.

Kill them with your kindness.

Be just yourself.

Be so independent of them that nothing can bind you with them.

Less worry about them, as all they want is to provoke you to think about them.

They care less about them, as all they want is to be the center of all attention.

They crave approval.

Don’t give them full control.

They are the ‘self-monsters’ who will eventually eat themselves.

But before that, they tend to eat others, those who are close to them.

©® Farheen Akter Bhuian Nancy

Circa: 2023, Rokeya Hall, DU

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