Never give a human the job of making you happy. Some days, they might call you sick. Other days they might call quit.
OBEHI VESSEL A.It is the silliness of youth to trust time.
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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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Learning is easy. Unlearning is tricky. The former is knowledge gained. The latter is knowledge gained, recognized as a loss.
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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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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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At present, Nations are burning. But, their leaders mistake the ash for snow.
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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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Some days are heavy. Not meant to be carried alone.
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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, when it comes to counting our blessings; we humans are all bad at math.
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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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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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I have seen humans call for “change” only to bid her go home, and return on a more convenient date.
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Second chances, are filled with humans hoping for a third.
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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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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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