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Life is full of traps. Some we stumble into unwittingly. Others we set for ourselves without realizing it. Or worse, with full knowledge of what we're walking into. And still others we were born into, and we may never even recognize them for what they are.
There is one prison, however, in which we are all inmates. We are, all of us, trapped inside out own skins. I'll never truly know how you see the world, will I? Never know what you really think, how colors look to your eyes, how food tastes in your mouth. It's a subtle prison, and one we only reinforce by building walls around ourselves. And you can suck it up and try to live with it, or you can spend your whole life looking for a way out only to find yourself right back where you started.
Which do you choose?
Okay, so maybe life is full of traps. Maybe every man is an island. Blah blah blah. Life is also full of things to touch and feel and taste. The problem is... Just because you see something doesn't mean you've got the slightest fucking clue what you're looking at. So what you do is you turn away from what you don't understand and you do your best to get cozy where you are. And guess what? You just landed in the next big trap. Lucky you.
Hey, it's not a perfect world, not by any stretch of the imagination. But at least we're all in it together, right? Well, not really. See, whet it comes to confinement, the sad truth is... some of us are more trapped than others.
~~House of Mystery: Room & Boredom by Matthew Sturges, Bill Willingham, and Luca Rossi.
There is one prison, however, in which we are all inmates. We are, all of us, trapped inside out own skins. I'll never truly know how you see the world, will I? Never know what you really think, how colors look to your eyes, how food tastes in your mouth. It's a subtle prison, and one we only reinforce by building walls around ourselves. And you can suck it up and try to live with it, or you can spend your whole life looking for a way out only to find yourself right back where you started.
Which do you choose?
Okay, so maybe life is full of traps. Maybe every man is an island. Blah blah blah. Life is also full of things to touch and feel and taste. The problem is... Just because you see something doesn't mean you've got the slightest fucking clue what you're looking at. So what you do is you turn away from what you don't understand and you do your best to get cozy where you are. And guess what? You just landed in the next big trap. Lucky you.
Hey, it's not a perfect world, not by any stretch of the imagination. But at least we're all in it together, right? Well, not really. See, whet it comes to confinement, the sad truth is... some of us are more trapped than others.
~~House of Mystery: Room & Boredom by Matthew Sturges, Bill Willingham, and Luca Rossi.