a villain is villain if the hero tells the story

haniif
Journal Kita
2 min readJul 3, 2024

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life is about being actor on a stage you didn’t choose.

Geto Suguru, Jujutsu Kaisen.

Must be good to be able to read someone else’s mind. Must be good to be read, judged, understood, correctly and fairly by others. Must be good to know that people understand all of our reasons. Must be good to have people understand without even have the responsibility to give them explanations.

Every single thing exists with a role. And the bad news is that we don’t get to choose the role. And some things, unfortunately, are supposed to be out of our control. Because the boat will always be going ahead as the wind blows and we can’t change the wind so we must be ready to sacrifice anything to make it to our destination.

We can’t choose the role nor others’. Someone will always get the villain role in someone else’s life. And villain will always be villain if the hero tells the story.

You might be the villain in one of your friends’ life because of course they are the hero in their story. People will always see you as the villain unless you’re willing to change yourself to be like the story teller. Well, unless the lions learning how to yield a knife, the hunter will always be the one in the spotlight.

Sometimes I want us to have superpowers or at least an additional talent like reading people’s mind so that this world wouldn’t be just like a staged theatre full of actors in their roles of being a hero in their life while making others the villains.

I love how writers make a villain as someone who would sacrifice and let the world down if it means to save the love of their life. I think most of people know about this, they just don’t give enough care about it. I think, by that statement, people should know that even a villain has their reasons.

Just by doing something unfamiliar and strange and maybe not socially acceptable, doesn’t mean it’s bad. I am sure we have watched lots of movies with villains in it. And I am also sure you know that even the villains have reasons to do that. It’s either people don’t give them the time to explain or people are pretending to turn a blind eye and being dickheads.

Villains won’t exist had people just have enough conscience left to give them the time. You won’t be the villain in one of your friend’s story if only they listen to you and let you explain. People are just unsophisticatedly ignorant about everything that isn’t themselves.

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