Dec 20, 2010 02:08
Some things cannot be taught, only learned.
Just as some things cannot be bought, only earned.
Some things cannot be thought, only felt.
Some things cannot be touched, only held.
If you think what you have now is bad, try wanting.
If you think wanting is bad, try conflict.
If you think conflict is bad, try loss.
If you think loss is bad, try rejection.
If you think rejection is bad, try indifference.
If you think indifference is bad, you're still sane.
If you don't then it doesn't matter to you anyway so why should you matter yourself?
Shut up and deal. Or if you can't, just deal.
Just shutting up isn't good enough.
Striving to achieve perfection through creation of a world of our own making is just as wrong as attempting to remove ourselves so completely that we have no part in it.
We cannot shed our burden of guilt through non-participation and so doing leave us free of the taint of the imperfection surrounding us, no matter how much nothing we amass.
One path being false does not mean another must be true, and all are as futile as they are absolute.
At the end, when all has come to pass, what we are left with is whatever we leave ourselves.
Some things can only be completed, and some can only be finished, and some neither.
And something imperfect or incomplete can be better than