You think us shallow and vain, plastic and immoral. Biased and hostile, vulgar and vicious, ungrateful and materialistic.
You are right.
You say we do not love, we cannot love, we do not know love. You say we are bonded by our blood, that our marriage is nothing more than an agreement.
What do you know about us?
You do not know us.
You say we are arrogant and pompous, self-centered and vain.
You are right.
But you do not know the unconditional love we share for eachother. The same love we conceal from you, knowing you would never believe us if we ever wanted to explain.
You will never understand us.
You may think you know us, you may think there is nothing beneath our exterior, but you are wrong. You do not see us when our walls are down, when we are vulnerable, humane, dependant. You do not see us alone, where we are not forced to lie and conceal our thoughts from you.
You think you know us? You know nothing
Because behind our fortifications we are people, just like you. Behind our walls we can love, just like you. Behind our defenses we feel pain, just like you.
You do not know what it is like to be us.
You strut in the hallways like you own the world, carefree and aimless. You have all the time at your hands, all the money at your fingertips, without a care or responsibility in the world. You don't know what it is like to have to shield yourself from the world, not letting anyone know who you are. You don't hear people make inequitable assumptions about you, you don't hear the rumors they spread. You have no walls, no inhibitions.
And you will never understand us.