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Blushtales
Conference Assistant and Event Hostess @ Bingham University
Conference Assistant and Event Hostess @ Bingham University
Human, Except When I Am Wrong
<p>I am a human being treated as a bot.</p><p>I am expected to know everything, forgetting what I know not.</p><p>expected to get it right every single time,</p><p>As though making a mistake is considered a crime.</p><p><br/></p><p>I must be smart, but never outsmart</p><p>I must be strong, but never fall apart</p><p>I must be kind, but never take offence</p><p>and when I make a mistake, I must have good defence…</p><p><br/></p><p>You want the results, but you question the process </p><p>Demand perfection, yet acknowledge no progress.</p><p>You want the finished product to be polished and complete,</p><p>But yet despise the human errors that make the process concrete.</p><p><br/></p><p>Its funny how my mistakes has become a measure of my worth</p><p>As though I wasn’t imperfect from the moment of my birth</p><p>One wrong move and suddenly my competence is in doubt</p><p>All the things I did right are suddenly left out.</p><p><br/></p><p>Yet when the mistake is yours, the story takes a different turn…</p><p>Suddenly there’s context, there’s a reason, there’s a lesson to learn.</p><p>You want me to consider what you intended to do</p><p>but when I ask for the same grace, it’s for some reason too much for you.</p><p><br/></p><p>When you forget, you’re human. But when I forget, I’m careless…..</p><p>When you snap, you’re stressed. When I do, I’m thoughtless</p><p>When you fail, there’s a reason but when I fail, there’s a flaw.</p><p>The same mistake, two verdicts. Tell me, what exactly is the law?</p><p><br/></p><p>You want the grace of being human, but the standards of a machine,</p><p>To make mistakes in private, yet appear forever <strong>“pristine”.</strong></p><p>You want your flaws and your intentions to be understood</p><p>But mine are taken as proof that I’m never as good.</p><p><br/></p><p>so I find it strange, this standard we have set..<br/></p><p>We’re all allowed to be imperfect, just not the ones we judge, I bet.</p><p>We understand our own mistakes in ways we rarely do for others,</p><p>as though we were born as individuals, not somebody’s sons and daughters.</p><p><br/></p><p>I am a human being. I get things wrong. I forget.</p><p>I have days when I fall short, and sad days I live to regret</p><p>but somehow, being human is now a privilege I must earn,</p><p>while you are simply human when it’s your own mistake in turn.</p><p><br/></p><p>I am a human being treated as a bot,</p><p>I am expected to be <strong>“flawless”</strong> in a world that is not.</p><p>the irony isn’t that humans make mistakes.</p><p><br/></p><p>It’s that we understand our own,</p><p>but struggle to understand everybody else’s.</p>
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