It's better to feel pain than nothing at all.
Pain represents the lowest chord of expression, but to feel nothing at all is to not even have a single chord struck in the rift of life. It's existence allows one to appreciate the opposite. It clears the head, it encourages proper conduct. It heals and it matures. Pain is the teacher one never live without, have full gratitude for, but would hope not to ever see again in the future. To feel nothing is to not have felt anything before. So if one were to choose between feeling pain or nothing at all, always opt for the former. Stay stubborn. Stay optimistic. Realism is for the weak and unworthy. Fall. Fall again. And again. Pain strengthens. Strength is the fuel to move on. To avoid pain is to avoid love and the opposite of love is indifference.
- Stubborn Love, The Lumineers
Stuck in her daydream.
Reality is an opinion. Some lucky ones, by streak of karma of their past life, were able to easily cruise pass this. Everyone wants to be good at something, to excel, to be loved, to love, to belong. Some find it being awake and being amongst ones they love. Some prefer the couple grams take them into a reality where nobody cares, nobody judges, nobody looks twice and frowns. The reality where objects don't matter, the reality where money and status mean nothing. She struggles to stay in her daydream. She works hard to afford the traveling expenses, the bubbling spoons, the heated pipes, the syringes, the cements. She wants to remain there forever, and not return to the world of judgement and frowns and money and status and material ownership. She wants to fly away like an angel. Lungs burnt. Mouth taste the sour puke she don't remember expelling. She finally flies away, like an angel, covered in white on the grey cobblestones just inches away from the sidewalk.
- The A Team, Ed Sheeran
I would wrap you in my thin white arms, sit and watch the stars glide
Hold on to it, your friend, your brother, your sister, your lover. It will love you back, it will feed you. It will remove your requirement for food and shelter and clothing and protection. It will remove your need for achievements and social acceptance. It will give you peace. It will fulfill you. Wrap it tight, do not let it go. It will not keep you happy and content and un-needing forever. When the cold and wet and dirt and hunger and thirst returns, use it. Line it up in thin white lines. Take it all in and feel blessed again. Remove all needs for as long as you have this friend brother sister lover you need nothing else. You will not feel the hunger not the thirst not the stench. Not the cold. Not the wet. The dark grey and black will return to glittering colors, they melt and hover and swirl. Wrap your thin arms around it and do not let it go. Lie on the grass. Watch the stars glide across the colorful sky. Absorb the beauty of the world. But hold it tight.
- Otis Redding, Everclear
You're hiding out so painfully.
Skeletons. Shadows. Ghosts. They chase after you. They catch up, take you over and they show you just how ugly you are. A closet full of them. You keep them locked away and hope that they never come out. You put on a mask and pretend nothing is going on. Yet quietly they creep out of the steel barricades and they hover in darkness, waiting to lunge at you when you fall weak. That perfect timing to strike. Then your consciousness is taken from you, control revoked. All you can do is stand by and observe as shadows and ghosts wreck havoc with your body, and leave you to tend to their mess. You fear the future as much as you hate your past. It is not your fault these ghosts and skeletons follow you, but there is no one you can blame either. Until you learn to control and accept these ghosts and skeletons, you will always be hiding out painfully and watching the world turn without you.
- No Envy No Fear, Joshua Radin
Equal partition abolishes emulation.
Fight for equal rights. The rights to own, to obtain, to be seen, to be heard, to be cared for. Fight for equal wealth. Remove the chains, allow complete mobility. But equality is by no means complete and unconditional. Equal partition of wealth abolishes emulation. It abolishes labor. It abolishes competition. It creates entitlement. It creates inequality. So fight. But do not fight ignorantly for unestablished equality. Do not fight for undefined wealth distribution. But fight for equal opportunity, the opportunity at labor creation and competition. Fight for equal mobility without shackles and segregation and color partition.
- Les Miserables
Heal the scars from off my back, I don't need them anymore
Pain will eventually dissipate. It will scatter and it will turn into dead scars. Scars are superficial. They do not harm. They do not cause pain. But they do remind you of your survival, your hardship, your courage. They remind you of how much you have grown. How you managed to come to terms with the ghosts and skeletons, the past that for so long have only been able to haunt you. How you have accepted who and what you are, and know that it is not so bad after all. So peel off your scars. Remove them from your back and throw them away. You don't need them anymore. Nobody else would need to see how much you have grown either, for this battle waged within yourself is only for your own reminiscence.
- Welcome Home, Radical Face
