yesterday a book saved my life

[herkind31]

i can only take so much shit before i crumble. and life seems to throw so much shit at me. i really hate my life. i wake up miserable everyday, i just don't talk about it much anymore, because i know ppl don't want to deal with it or hear about it. it's like i'm my own broken record. but yesterday, i was reading this book, in fact that's all i

Comments

[herkind31]

here's the full quote, just in case you would prefer the slimmed down version:

(the character quotes Paul Eluard, see above)
It's (the quote from the poem) about how ... how ppl are always going somewhere? like everybody's always tring to be not where they are? like they want to be in stanford, or in tuscany, or in heaven, or in a bigger house on a fancier street? or they want to be different, like thinner or smarter or richer or with cooler friends (or dead, she did not say). they're so busy trying to find their way somewhere else they don't see the world they're actually in. so this guy's saying, instead of searching for ways out of our lives, what we should be searching for are ways in. because if you really look at the world, it's like ... it's like ...
...
it's like, you know, inside every stove there's a fire. well, inside every grass blade there's a grass blade, that's just like burning up with being a grass blade. and inside every tree, there's a tree, and inside every person there's a person, and inside this world that seems so boring and ordinary, if you look hard enough, there's a totally amazing magical beautiful world. and anything you would want to know, or anything you would want to happen, all the answers are right there where you are right now.