No, I’m not one to go in pursuit of happiness. It is common knowledge, is it not? That what is chased after will run.
OBEHI VESSEL A.And, when it comes to counting our blessings; we humans are all bad at math.
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I have felt warmth in lies, and coldness in truth. This is how I know that morality, transcends the physicality of temperatures.
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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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Past lifetimes do not concern me. Whatever memory succumbs to be forgotten, is one I do not aspire to repeat.
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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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I have seen humans call for “change” only to bid her go home, and return on a more convenient date.
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Be careful out there; I hear humans get killed for wearing the wrong skin.
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Every person I failed to forgive, I became.
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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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No. I do not wish upon stars, I hear they fall.
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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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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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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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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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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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Standing between who we are, and who we want to be, is that which we find easiest to be.
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