“ Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place."


Be soft... How is that possible when this world is filled with so many bad people? That if these people realize you're soft, they start stepping all over you and taking advantage of you. Everyone keeps saying this world is a horrible place, so why would you ever want to be known as soft in this horrible place? Why would you ever want to appear as sweet in this awful place?

If you're hard, people would know that you're not gullible, they wouldn't deem you as naive and they wouldn't try to take you for granted. I admit, I have always been the soft one. But it has not gotten me anywhere. I'm still standing where I was a decade ago. That same gullible child. It's not something to be proud of. It's not something that's good.

So why, again, would anyone be soft, when the rest of the world is so hard, you can barely lean on it comfortably for any kind of support.