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Consequences

You are free to choose, you are not free from the consequences of your choice

By Devika PathakPublished 2 years ago 1 min read
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People will use you, abuse you.

Manipulate you. Gaslight you.

Make you see things from their perspective.

Tell you that you have bad thinking.

They will question your mentality.

Sometimes your sanity.

Push you to your limits.

Then play on your guilt and shame.

They will make you do things that you don’t want to do.

But oh how you should apologize because you are a disgrace.

You are a horrible person because you defended yourself.

Just a wannabe b*t€h as you stood up for yourself

And all you ever wanted was to breathe.

You don’t need to beg.

You don’t need to chase.

But if you don’t do that you are a player who doesn’t care.

When you do what they say then you are crazy.

They don’t care about the goodness of your heart.

You are just a naive gullible fool.

Because baby you are just suffering the consequences of your actions.

Actions that you took after manipulations.

Manipulations that were done by playing on your guilt.

Guilt because you should be ashamed that you wanted to breathe.

Shame because why did you have any hope.

Such is the world that will blame you for everything.

Because yes, at the end of the day it was you who made that choice.

Choice because you did not have any other options.

Your options were narrowed along with your mindset.

They want you to take actions based on their decisions.

After convincing that they are your choices.

For of course, you are free to choose but you are not free from the consequences of your choice.

A choice that you made when you did not have any other options.

Because your vision was narrowed and your mind was guilt ridden.

A manufactured manipulation and a shame of being yourself.

Why would you choose otherwise for there will be consequences of your actions.

Why would you not listen because you should be frightened.

Why would you not make the right choice because you have so many options.

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