Breaking Barriers

Why do we sometimes make ourselves so difficult?  We build walls around us just to see if anyone cares to break it down. We stay quiet just to see if anyone persuades us to talk. We minimize our socialization just to see if anyone really cares for us. And then we derive to decisions; I am not loved enough, cared enough, and valued enough. Why do we measure love on such weighing scales? Why do we build barriers and sit and watch if people pass our test? And if things don’t turn out the way we want, anger, grief, disappointment follows and the elements which we created intentionally, then becomes a shadow, following our every happiness. Living with such filters just draws us deeper into darkness. Instead just speak your mind, complain what bothers, question what worries, shout what scares, express what you love, people who care will respond and who don’t you will anyways eventually know.