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.When one door closes, another opens.’ Yet, in-between lies a wait persuasive enough to make many go through windows.
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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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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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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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And, when it comes to counting our blessings; we humans are all bad at math.
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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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‘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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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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Learning is easy. Unlearning is tricky. The former is knowledge gained. The latter is knowledge gained, recognized as a loss.
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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.
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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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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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A natural law; ‘forgive them or become them.’ slowly, unnoticeably, surely.
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I no longer ask humans, for a definition of love. For, they tend to force on her, the traits of those who have either treated them well or not at all.
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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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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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