Need something to hold on to
Not something to fall back on
We're at war
That much I know
I do not want a bed
Only a sword
That's symbolic
Of victories
Of battles
And of war cry
Need something to hold on to
Not something to fall back on
We're at war
That much I know
I do not want a bed
Only a sword
That's symbolic
Of victories
Of battles
And of war cry
Everything comes down to this
Your fears. Your anxieties
Your confidence or lack of it
Your investments and expenses
Your discipline and your indulgences
Your health and sleep
The care you take in your
relationships
Who you invest in; And who you earn
for
What you read and for how long you
don’t
The time you spend learning
And the time you spend earning
Who you choose to fight and who to
please
Everything you do, and everything you
do not
Every way you feel – your moods,
mental age
Convictions and trepidations
It is a trade-off
Between tomorrow and 15 years later.
Think in radically long
time spans
In villages adorned with silence
would you become the cause of your own exile?
imagine a knock on the door, a damsel in distress
or a dragon of mighty proportions; and charge at life
as if to tame it, hurling yourself at it
against all advice of the village elders
Wisdom is cheap unless paid for
in tokens of misery; and then it's cheap again
because you can't sell it
Those that become their worst enemies
must constantly be wiser than the ones waiting
for the worldly sufferings
It's either that or cheap wisdom of the gods
that rampages through the ruins of the lives
and the living that think they have suffered
There was something to the idea of viewing
and witnessing everything as a war
a war for victory, a dignified loss, or even survival
There was something to the idea
of going to sleep wearing armor
The idea of keeping your enemies close
struck so deep that Mr none-the-wiser pledged
to himself his own ruin.
No one else would ever get so close, after all.
Then it was just a matter of deciding
whether to fight himself in search of wisdom
or to exile himself on account of his stupidity
Remember. Not because it's important
But because forgetting is the most natural human act
You're going to waste your Sunday morning coffee,
hunted by the Saturday afternoon
torn between the need to do something,
for something to happen to you
and the comfort of an uncleaned coffee spill
There are men who lay awake on random nights of the week
worried about how pointless the Sunday morning coffee is going to be
if it doesn't spill and take their minds off
all the eerie happenings of the Saturday afternoon
I once made a promise to someone
that I will not be one of those men
It was on a Saturday afternoon
Now I can't wait for the lovely lady to bring me my coffee.
Forget your instincts and dreams;
Take my obligations
Turn them into aspirations. Make them your own.
Borrowed aspirations bring borrowed success.
You don't want to be that man. Or this man.
Conspire then, alone, with yourself
against your self. Tell yourself that this will be enough
You're not made for things of vanity
No, not born for them either
There is no story. Who has the time for stories?
For prolonged narratives of epicness?
Use this metaphor and stab yourself with it.
Say that you won't aspire, or conspire against yourself
That you don't want to be that man. Or this man.
Or don't. It's not like they're listening anyway.
Of isolation without solitude
Of getting older without growing up
Of losing without loss
Of winning without victory
Of permanence without possession
Of anger without aggression
Of motion without direction
Of progression without destination
Of ships without anchors
Of lighthouses without ships
Not pointless. Just half.
Somewhat insidious. Necessary, nonetheless.
A sign of life. A prelude to an advertisement.