This year has been heavy. Not meant to be carried alone.
OBEHI VESSEL A.“No” is such a controversial word. Clear, resounding when uttered by men. By women, Low, muffled. Sounds like “yes.”
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It is the silliness of youth to trust time.
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Doubts are powerful. They, not only demand we look again, they tell us what to see.
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How abstract we humans sound, when we say these are dark times. As though it isn’t in our hands that paint our times.
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Never give a human the job of making you happy. Some days, they might call you sick. Other days they might call quit.
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You were fully clothed in lies, I was naked in truth. Still, when morning came It was I who survived the cold.
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I used to believe that living is doing, moving, getting. But, there is life in staying still. A bird is a bird even when she isn’t flying.
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Be careful out there; I hear humans get killed for wearing the wrong skin.
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And, when it comes to counting our blessings; we humans are all bad at math.
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I used to envy the sun, for having seen it all. I was wrong. Left with nothing to see, how bored she must be.
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Standing between who we are, and who we want to be, is that which we find easiest to be.
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Every person I failed to forgive, I became.
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Ran out of time, before we even began. How long will the road not taken be starved of footprints?
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Doing good and being good; are two different things. The first is a shirt we put on, take off. The latter is our skin.
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And now, we look back at what was normal, and we find that normal isn’t always good or right; No. Normal, is whatever has been spent with us, the longest time. And that in itself is not a valid reason for it to stay.
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Patience is not the ability to wait. It is, how we wait; an attitude so unruffled, that none can tell if we’re waiting or not.
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