echoes you hear

"..they can't avoid the truth, that being young is so painful, it's almost, like, too much to feel." My mum always told me to pour my heart out. In everything I do, in every person I confide. "If you're not going to put your heart and soul into it, might as well not do it", she used to say. As I grew up, however, I realized most people were not brought up in the same manner. Or they chose not to be so.  Often I'm told that I'm too much. My ex told me that once. " You're too much for me right now, and I'm not in a place to handle it", she said. I hear that a lot, actually. They're always along the same lines. Be a man/ Why are you so sensitive/ Why do you feel so much.  And often, I wonder. Aren't these the same people who love watching movies like The Notebook, YJHD (my white folks, don't worry, it's an Indian movie), The Fault in Our Stars? Aren't these the same people who listen to Ed Sheeran's Photogra...