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Be a paradox
Be the paradox,Be the thing no one expects you to be.Be happy in a sad situation,Be joyful at a stressful situation.Be a bodybuilder who studies,Be a writer who runs.How bound we are by societal norms,Where we restrain what we cannot do.Where the mind is with fear,And the head cannot be held high,Be someone you cannot,In…
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The coffee table
The kid jumps off a coffee table, Believing he is superman, “you cannot jump off a coffee table” The kid stops seeing the coffee table as the top of a building. Why do they teach us history in school? Why not teach me how to get a girlfriend? Or how to become Spiderman, Or simply…
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person, not a project
Focused on the end goal, I seldom had fun, aiming for perfection, then wallowing in sorrow when I fail, was my story. we treat life like a project, constantly trying to better ourselves, if failing, trying to get past that failure, if slapped, slapping back, but not letting ourselves relish the pain of the slap,…
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Ticking world
What is this feeling,I have so much to do,Yet I do nothing,entrapped on my bed,stuck in a ticking world,yet all I want to do is waste,everything is in motion,except me,why is that,when the laws related to motion were discovered,was there a thought given,to the people who were stuck in a ticking world? -C.Y. I am…
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Confusion: Life woes
I went to the bookstore to get a book,Alas i never found one,There were tons of choices before me, which one to pick? Stumbled me,The thriller section looked mesmerizing,But I knew the same old can’t-put-the-book-down,The self improvement section reeked of success,But it was also a pitfall, striving on my downfall,Then I saw the romance section,Loving…
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I am bound yet I must be free
“What would you like to be when you grow up”,They asked,“Anything and everything”,I answered back,A writer,An artist,An engineer,A scientist,A mechanic,Even a soldier,The childlike wonder when i was 10 saw no issues with me being a mechanic,He didn’t think that being a scientist or a soldier was that hard,He simply believed he could do it,Now i…
