The Exception

Lately I have felt like my opinions about a book in class haven't been appreciated or even bothered to listen to. I would constantly try to get my viewpoint of it out but would continuously get shut down or be told that maybe I should consider other things but it's not my fault people can't see what I see. I would think to myself that maybe I was just too dumb to actually see what others were seeing so that was when I shut myself down and didn't tell anyone what I thought. A few days ago I told about 5 other people what I thought about the book and they were in complete awe and said that I was going deep. I was so shocked because how is it that people now can understand me? I pondered about that for so long. Until I noticed that it was the type of people that could understand me. It was time I had to present my opinion to class and my teacher and peers nodded their heads in agreement as I shared out. It felt so good to know that some, yet enough, people understood me because then I didn't feel dumb. People aren't going to automatically see what you can see because they have different viewpoints, don't try to force them or make yourself see what they see because in the end they will see what they see and you will see what they see. It's like forcing me to eat tomatoes but no matter what I will hate them but then there's ketchup. Some people are going to be ketchup, the exception. Go spread your knowledge, go spread your wisdom, go spread your ideas but always be yourself. Just go with it, man.