Yup. Exactly. Most people including me have (had) to learn how to not being afraid speak up.

Otherwise unresolved issues catch up with a person until the end of life.

So everytime someone tells that I am too much activist I answer “yes, because I think I need to speak up so I don’t have to have unfinished stuff in my head”. And after ten years when we meet they ask me if I remember …something… And I tell them I don’t as it was finished and I don’t live in the past.

Ram Dass would appreciate it. Be here and now.

I understand. I think many people do. It sounds like this individual was proven right in the retaliation.