Speak For Yourself

 


You know what I hate? Okay, it's a long list, but I'll just write about this one annoying thing that sets me off. It's when people speak for the dead. No, not a medium or that woman with the five foot candy hair who claims she can hear your mama say she loves you even though mama usually said "get off my back, kid!" when she was alive.

I'm talking about, in most instances, a relative of the dead who says something like, "Well, Daddy would never have said that," or, Mommy would have said this..."

Stop it. Stop assuming you know how a person would react, or what they would say. From my own experience I have had people speak for me and have gotten me wrong, wrong, wrong. It still pisses me off when some teacher assumed I was a conservative and had the nerve to say what he thought my opinion would be, and that was a hundred years ago! Even my own family would never be able to speak for me. 

When a person dies, their thoughts, their beliefs, their ideals all die as well. We can go back and read whatever they said when they were alive, just stop assuming you know what they would think now. People change. Look at Elon. Last month he loved his orange bro. Now, he wants to exact revenge upon his kingdom and court jesters. It's cringe to me when I see the offspring of famous politicians think they know how the dead would react in today's chaos. I'm betting if John McCain had died before he voted no to repeal Obamacare, his chubby little whiner daughter would have said, "Oh my God, Dad would never vote against the party! He hated Obamacare!" 

Even if you think you know a person, and maybe you'd be right 100% of the time, STOP speaking for them. If you tell me Abraham Lincoln would be appalled by Trump and company and would have said, "Now, stop this nonsense, young-uns." do you truly believe that has any sway with anyone? Who knows, maybe he would have liked the orange man. Kennedy was a Catholic. Maybe he would enjoy seeing Mike Johnson and the Christian hypocrites pray in a huddled circle for the annihilation of the Constitution. I don't know. And neither does anyone else.

Speak for yourself. Learn from what good people have taught you.  Just let them be. 

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