Learning is easy. Unlearning is tricky. The former is knowledge gained. The latter is knowledge gained, recognized as a loss.
OBEHI VESSEL A.And, when it comes to counting our blessings; we humans are all bad at math.
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A lot of my mistakes, are birthed by curiosity. Like a child, drawn to fire; I came for the light and found pain instead.
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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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I have seen men, choose violence time after time. And in turn, I have seen violence choose them.
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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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Spiritual or religious. Which will you be? Society, asks of me. Inscribe my name on the list. I said, of which has more compassion in it.
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Every person I failed to forgive, I became.
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Both strong and weak may survive; if neither takes too seriously, the titles of ‘strong’ and ‘weak’.
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Everyone claims they want the truth. Just not in all her bright entirety. We’d rather she visit in dim shades of light, that won’t hurt our eyes.
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Every human carries a heavy past. But the good thing about what can be carried, is that it can also be put down.
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‘Why are we here?’ I inquired of my body, spirit, and soul. ‘Here to do whatever feels good.’ Said the first. ‘Here to do what feels good.’ Said the second. ‘Here to choose.’ Said the third. ‘Between both.’
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You can worry, or you can be wise. You cannot be both, at the same time.
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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 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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A problem ignored, has two outcomes. The illusion that it is gone, and the reality of one problem becoming more.
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