Doing good and being good; are two different things. The first is a shirt we put on, take off. The latter is our skin.
OBEHI VESSEL A.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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Some days are heavy. Not meant to be carried alone.
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It seems to be, that there are dual reasons why justice is rarely given. One, too little evidence. Two, too much.
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Fear is a curtain telling you she’s a door walkthrough.
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Learning is easy. Unlearning is tricky. The former is knowledge gained. The latter is knowledge gained, recognized as a loss.
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What’s lost, can be found. What’s broken, may be fixed. But what lives in denial of either of these will remain as it is.
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Past lifetimes do not concern me. Whatever memory succumbs to be forgotten, is one I do not aspire to repeat.
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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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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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To know more, I must first admit that I know nothing. Only on a blank page, can words be written.
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“No” is such a controversial word. Clear, resounding when uttered by men. By women, Low, muffled. Sounds like “yes.”
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Doubt has evolved. From a ‘what if I can’t?’ To a ‘what if I can? And it doesn’t last?’
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Time ensures that we heal; not that we forget; In forgetting how a scar came to be, is to silently invite another injury.
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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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I have seen men, choose violence time after time. And in turn, I have seen violence choose them.
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And, when it comes to counting our blessings; we humans are all bad at math.
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