the day we turned into monsters

haniif
Journal Kita
2 min readJun 15, 2024

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We’ll never really be humans because the world never wanted us to. We’re the monsters this world turned us into.

The Notebook (Ryan Gosling)

We were born monsters and that’s what I believe. All things considered, I don’t really like the fact that we are not given the freedom to choose whether we want to be born or not. And I think this one thing might play the biggest role in this monster creation game.

People define monster as something so horrible and scary. The unacceptably ugliest creature you’ve ever imagined and I’m neither to contradict nor agree with that.

I have read some articles about monster and I choose to believe that monster, somehow, is not always an object. The origin of the word “monster” is from the Latin that means to warn, to demonstrate, to show and make evident.

See? It is not so object coded. I’ve always prefer labeling monster as a non-object thing to be honest. I will say that monsters exist as consquences. They exist in a form of reaction. They are the outcome of something that already happened. Monsters, in other word, are something that happens to be the manifestation of everything which has done in the past.

Monsters are pictured as something bad. Yes, that is right. Absolutely right. Do you think the things you did in the past will make you gain something good? Oh, I am sorry this is not the heaven you pray for.

We were born monster and we’ll always have our own monster in us. Could it be something you put on display or the thing you hide for dear life only to release them in a full force when the time is right, it will always be there.

We are always monsters. We have our own monster to show, to demonstrate, about how are we going to react to the given situations in our lives.

We’re always monsters and we’ll always be the bad people. We’ll always have this awful, hideous, horrible side in us.

We were born monsters because we were born in a place full of rules and restrictions that was made long before, without our permission and consent.

We were born monsters because we’re always forced to do things we never want, to bury things we wanted to say, and to kill things we always loved.

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