Brilliant?
I hate how I can feel so deeply about something yet know at the same time that I can never save it
I can believe so strongly but never get the words out right, much less correct action
I have written papers, spoken at conventions and organized my portfolio and my life around these concepts...
but that's all they seem to be good for
In the end... people will go home and do what they do (just as I will)
and forget
and those were only the people who payed attention in the first place... everyone else will go on, never once interrupted
I want to be an agent of change...
but I'm not
I'm the dumb idealistic college kid everyone shakes their head at
I used to dream about just turning into an animal and running away somewhere...
laugh if you want, but I would do it in a heartbeat now if I could
I want to fight, but once again I don't know 1) how to make others see the bars and 2) how to do it
“There’s nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord with the world, they will BE in accord with the world. But given a story to enact that puts them at odds with the world, as yours does, they will live at odds with the world. Given a story to enact in which they are lords of the world, they will act like lords of the world. And, given a story to enact in which the world is a foe to be conquered they will conquer it like a foe, and one day, inevitably, their foe will lie bleeding to death at their feet, as the world is now.”
- Ishmael (from the book Ishmael by Daniel Quinn)
I can believe so strongly but never get the words out right, much less correct action
I have written papers, spoken at conventions and organized my portfolio and my life around these concepts...
but that's all they seem to be good for
In the end... people will go home and do what they do (just as I will)
and forget
and those were only the people who payed attention in the first place... everyone else will go on, never once interrupted
I want to be an agent of change...
but I'm not
I'm the dumb idealistic college kid everyone shakes their head at
I used to dream about just turning into an animal and running away somewhere...
laugh if you want, but I would do it in a heartbeat now if I could
I want to fight, but once again I don't know 1) how to make others see the bars and 2) how to do it
“There’s nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord with the world, they will BE in accord with the world. But given a story to enact that puts them at odds with the world, as yours does, they will live at odds with the world. Given a story to enact in which they are lords of the world, they will act like lords of the world. And, given a story to enact in which the world is a foe to be conquered they will conquer it like a foe, and one day, inevitably, their foe will lie bleeding to death at their feet, as the world is now.”
- Ishmael (from the book Ishmael by Daniel Quinn)