funnily enough

isn't it funny how time is relative?

last night seemed so far away because you enjoyed it
and now its gone
last year seemed just like yesterday
and how difficult life was then
but then again,
comes down to what you choose in that time,
and whether or not you choose to enjoy it
or be eaten up by it.

given the choice,
which would you be?

an actor?
a pilot?
a model?
a lawyer?
an environmentalist?
a marine biologist?
....
the list goes on and on

ambitions are what they're called
to give u direction
or objectives on what to achieve
motivation to spur you on

let's be realistic here
our ambitions don't really matter
funnily enough
its what you are that matters
or more like what you've become

let's rephrase the question
if you had to choose between being
a hypocrite
or a manipulator
which would you choose?

a hypocrite
in a nutshell, not doing as you say everybody else should
just shrouded by your own misery of how difficult your standards are
that you never seem to achieve them
always falling short
of how tremendously insane it is to ask it of you
and yet ask it from others

a manipulator
one who controls all the variables
who knows what exactly he is doing and how he is doing it
but by having other people do it instead
without them knowing it
the mark is to inspire
to motivate
to encourage
to manipulate

the lesser of two evils?
is there one?
what is your definition of an evil?
one where you deceive people into thinking better of you?
one where you try to make people believe they are inadequate?
one where people are hurt?

turns out
that two evils aren't so different after all
so why choose?

today's message was brought to you by the word : DIFFERENT

maintenance

would you believe me if i said
that i'm done living dreams

that i'm done searching for that
somewhere over the rainbow
waiting for that
someday skies are blue
and the dreams that you dare to dream
really do come true

i'll wish upon a star
and wake up where the clouds are far behind me
where troubles melt like lemon drops
away above the chimney tops.



a tribute to what once was


who writes this stuff anyways?


today's message was brought to you by the word : DECIPHER

Fire & Hope

FIRE AND HOPE ARE CONNECTED just so you know.
The way the Greeks told it, Zeus put Prometheus and Epimetheus in charge of creating life on earth.
Epimetheus made the animals, giving out bonuses like swiftness and strength and fur and wings.
By the time Prometheus made man, all the best qualities had been given out.
He settled for making them walk upright, and he gave them fire.


Zeus, pissed off, took it away.
But Prometheus saw his pride and joy shivering and unable to cook.
He lit a torch from the sun and brought it to man again.
To punish Prometheus, Zeus had him chained to a rock, where an eagle fed on his liver.
To punish man, Zeus created the first woman

--- Pandora ---

and gave her a gift, a box she was forbidden to open.


Pandora’s curiosity got the best of her,
and one day she opened that box.
Out came plagues and misery and mischief.
She managed to shut the lid tight before hope escaped.


It’s the only weapon we have left to fight the others.



Jodi Picoult - My Sister's Keeper

quote for mine

you look at me with those eyes
and you judge me to be immature
yet without knowing
you have casted your first stone

you throw me no pity
no mercy
no grace
no pardon nor favor
for all you see is disgust
all you see is disgrace

you ask for respect
when you give none
you demand things of me
yet you tell me none
you allow me no reason
and you expect me to mature?

be the hypocritical man you are
burn your principles into your skin
let it be etched in your memory
for your ways may be imparted in me
yet there is nothing else for you
when you are a metal rod
that allows no bends
that can only see breaks

i keep looking for bridges
i keep searching for you
but through your narrow mind
no bridge can cross
no path can be taken
for even the path not taken
cannot be my own

rant all you want
but your middle man can't do
for i am my father's son
and his spirit lives in me

neverending

how long has it been since you last were a hypocrite?
how long has it been since you last succumbed
to being a part of the norm
the norm
that tells us to be nice
to be polite
to be a friend

sure

to be a liar
to be a conman
to be one who commits themselves
to underlying lies and cheats
and trick and deceive
the people closest to them
for they truly are the easiest ones


hypocrisy
such an art
and yet
so easy to be broken
all it takes is one of its own
to deceive the deceiver
to betray one's trust

when that one
has been a hypocrite themselves
to lie
cheat
deceive
and betray
only to be betrayed themselves
would that not be salt in the wound?

hypocrites
u want to live with them for they think they know the world
they can manipulate
they can toggle
they can toy
they can play with
with concerns of what they think is right
with thoughts of their ideals
their ideals
of how the world should turn
of so many things
that are never under their control


yet


they choose to pass judgment
they choose to acknowledge their superiority
over their ignorance

and they pass their own judgment



today's message was brought to you by the word : BURN