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Holding a Rope and then a String

optimisticCoconut270 November 23rd, 2021

My family is like a Ribbon. It's fancy,silky, nice, -everything a perfect ribbon can offer. Well, that's what people see anyways. I wish it was a ribbon though. Though, staring a bit longer, some say my family is more of a yarn. It's pretty to some, durable for many, but it isn’t as silky, smooth, and perfect as a ribbon. Even though my parents try to claim it to be. But from my eyes, a member of this ribbon and yarn, it’s just a string. Barely hanging on by a thread. It tries to be perfect for some. But people can see,-I can see it’s nothing special. I’m tired of pretending to be a ribbon, I’m tired of barely being seen as a durable yarn. My family is a string ready to be ripped and snipped. It’s tears easily. But as I am forced to be this ribbon so badly, -even though I’m a puny weak string. I put the fake little ribbon bow on my head and try my best to smile.

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VioletSpringGlade December 14th, 2021

@optimisticCoconut270

I love your analogy! So often people are taught that everything is perfect as long as we keep that pretty ribbon tied in a neat bow and present it to the world. And we judge everyone else by their ribbons. Oblivious to what is going on inside of us and the family.

I think sometimes the ribbons have invisible barbed wire or needles in them and we hurt each other and ourselves, but the prettiness serves to distract and tell us that everything is fine (when it is not).