How schooled should reactions be?
Should pain not be expressed in screams?
Shouldn’t a joke get a full-throated guffaw?
Should you muffle your anger under an urbane cloak,
Or should you spew out all the venom it is building inside you?
It’s what separates us from animals, you say, this control.
Okay.
But do animals live in constructed edifices of contrived circumstances?
This will to express, to reach out, to connect or disconnect with another,
This multiplicity of reactions, with the ability to affect another,
These muscles that crease foreheads, upturn the lips in a smile,
Squeeze the lachrymal glands.
This is what makes us human.
No, it’s not okay to always succumb to reactions.
But must we filter each of them and render them neutral–render ourselves neutral?
Nupur Chaturvedi 
Comments on: "Filter" (4)
no we must not. let them hear the truth!
No… vent them out… even at the risk of looking stupid or feeling stupid… its human only human to vent it out…
The problem of being human is also a good reason to be one. Nicely written Nupur.
xspress before you burst.