I can’t feel sorry for a sorry state
I look in your eyes and see such hate
Disguised as justice, but it’s really redemption
Why should i feel so sorry for you, when you just judge another that has less
You’ll find no sympathy here
There is no love lost
One day you’ll see
Just how much that means
Quietly progressing all of my days
Setbacks happen but they are but bumps in the road
Perceptions cast upon you, you have to live with and overcome
Perceptions are just opinions cast by uninformed people
Used to undermine your progress
So for once get out to the sunshine, because the shade hides the best of you
Ignorance isn’t bliss
It’s about as lovely as a kiss
From your worse enemy
Never been a friend to me
Ignorance destroyed the world’s sanity
Hurting lives like the pain of a cavity
Like the sting from whips of the past
Or the downfall that no Education has cast
Riddled with bullets from guns
Instead of bullets of knowledge
The real world is full of cons
Real knowledge preserved for the privileged
No, ignorance isn’t bliss
It’s felt like warm piss
Drank like liquor
Threw up by those drunk with it’s deceit
Wake up out of your stupor
The powers that be have hijacked your mind
The real War on Terror is attacking your thoughts
Using fear and poverty to lessen your power
Our biggest threat isn’t foreigners
My biggest threat is you
Outside my window i smell the stench of poverty
The belief that we are next to nothing or one in the same
I see a man that thinks he’s nothing
He thinks he’s revolutionary, a renaissance man
He portrays the typical stereotype he was breed to follow
Ignorance is his mantra
He’s blind to the socioeconomic position he finds himself in
Nor does he care
Brokenhearted by the pains and scraps of society
He drives on in fear
Not of faith, but of man
He’s scared of his fellow man
The rich man laughs at the prospect of a free and equal society
It serves him no purpose, no merit
The poor will always be poor if they continue to live in the mentality that they are privileged
Religion blinded the eye of the realist, of the opportunist
They told him to wait on salvation and go through hardship and hard trials
They told him who he loves is wrong
Several men wrote the morals by which you follow
Still your’re blind to the facts
The facts that have been skewed by falsehoods and bullshit
Read young one
Reading opens the door to education
To understanding
To a true revolution that will not be televised
It will not be televised cause it’s in the mind
In the mind of the downtrodden
In the mind of the minority
Most importantly in the mind of the People
Outside my window i see hope
I see the Future
Lead me not on the journey of Truth
Tell me lies.Honesty is not Honest
Fabrications as high as rooftops but not my roof,
Lies are nothing but a word adjust:
O my! Why do you feel pain?
It is but words that leave you shaken;
That truth will drive you to shame,
Whose worth unknown, although his soul be taken.
Life is but Times fool, through death and aging
Within his span, what does he truly learn?
Lies reveal the truths of ones caging,
For years you’r life will be left for eyes to discern.
So what is a lie but a version of the truth,
Or some fantasy once told in our youth.
Once you start believing in self
Your potential opens closed doors
Actions manifest from words once spoken
Life begins to complete the circle
But the circle starts to bend and break
It’s out of shape and forming a box
Inside this box you’ve closed your mind
Outside this box you’ve left your love
Alas, you wear hermits clothing
Sheltered from a world you no longer know
New ideas are foreign to you
New love you can’t seem to find
If you’d but form that circle once more
And let the love that comes flow freely
Opening your mind and heart to what’s in store
You’d life life abundantly once more
In all my years of life, I’ve seen ignorance in different forms. I’ve tried unsuccessfully to combat it, often fighting fire with fire. Now that I have a clearer understanding of this human condition, I just smile. Smiling has been one of the most successful defenses against perceived ignorance and the results are phenomenal.
The ignorant one often is confused as to why you find humor in their stupidity and it makes them look even more like a fool than their usual self. I’ve met the most ignorance online, people often hide, cowardly behind a screen, desperately wasting time coming up with what they perceive to be a funny anecdote. Time wasted on an idea that is sure to backfire is ignorance in itself. The process is called trolling, where a user spends quite a bit of precious time searching for a way to annoy intelligence.
These people, called Trolls, get their kicks from perusing the internet in discussion groups, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, etc, trying to interrupt and disturb topics they themselves aren’t familiar with. Some people will entertain the idiot until they either tire of their silly game or get roasted so bad that they aren’t seen again. Another trolling incident involves a serious status, tweet, discussion, etc that is interrupted by the stupidity of a troll. The troll knows now the situation but injects their idiotic brand of humor into a situation that doesn’t require or call for comedy.
The best thing to do in these situations is smile, but it is often entertaining for us intellects to bait the troll in intelligent conversation, their intent is to anger and annoy, but when you counter their illogical thinking you see that they are empty shells of nothingness and not really worth your time.
So smile in the face of ignorance and know that you the intelligent one won a battle in the long war against ignorance.
Many of us go through it both men and women, but I can only speak from a male’s point of view. This disaster that I am just now starting to recover from, this “Quarter-Life Crisis” is an essential point in a person’s life. It usually occurs in the mid 20’s, right around the time your life is just starting to come together. The many pains and pressures you encounter are just phases of growth, but in your mind it’s close to the end of the world.
The financial, emotional, mental stressors that are constantly bombarding you, will drive you insane, but for good reason. These are but test of your will and your ability to handle certain aspects of life. Some turn to unsavory activities in order to cope (mine was alcohol) but these influences only make the situation worse, sometimes prolonging your recovery. Yes, this is the time where people tend to try to rush into life heart first, not thinking, but acting on impulse, much like a child.
From marriage, to children, to college, careers and etc, you’re on a constant move trying to achieve it all in as short a time as possible. Somewhere in all of this craziness, our brain says I’m done and starts the process of slowing down, but your body didn’t get the message. So you crash and things start to fail or so you think. In your mind now, you’re moving too fast and you still have a lot of young life to live. Partying, clubbing, drinking and the like, you start to lose your focus on the important things you were rushing after. So now your life is at a crossroads, you can’t find a balance, but in reality you can. You just have to remember to take things slowly and don’t try to tackle life all at once.
Marriage can wait; you need to establish yourself anyway before inviting someone else in. If you have children, as I do, you have to incorporate them into your future, many of the things you wanted to do will have to take a back seat, but not all the way back. The first opportunities to dream chase you get take hold of it and don’t let go. Involve that little one in the process; it makes it more rewarding and fun. Quarter-Life crisis aren’t Mid-Life crises, because most times you don’t have the cash to go splurge on things, you’re having enough trouble filling the fridge or your tank. It is important, because it teaches you to slow down and really figure out what it is you are doing.
The most important thing is recovering; all of those bad habits you continued or picked up, you have to slowly drop. Around this age health issues start and in order to nip them in the bud, slowing down on drinking, quitting smoking and not going out so much help you to focus on important things. Getting your finances in order is #1 because without good credit, you spend more and things are less accessible to you. Also if you’re trying to have a long term relationship and marriage, finances is an important thing to have handled, that way you focus more on love than whose debt is whose. You’re also setting a great example for your children when it comes to handling money. They’ll hopefully grow into fiscally responsible adults themselves as a result of your teachings.
The Quarter-Life crisis isn’t the end of the world, it is the beginning of more rewarding and challenging times and because you survived this, you have a great chance of handling your business in the future.
In my bottle lies the key to happiness
At least I think….
I forgot somewhere down the road
Probably after my 5th shot
I’m feeling good
In my bottle lies sex appeal
When swag becomes class
Or some misconstrued version of fashion
Maybe I drank too much, naw never that
Shit is straight
This bottle contains my life
Fragilely held together
But slowly falling apart
I’m no longer myself
Why do they hate me?
This bottle holds my family and friends
Captive
Searching for answers
While I make excuses
Life’s fucked up
I’ve become dependent on this false happiness
Slowly erasing what really matters
For a momentarily thrill
That’s slowly tearing my body apart
Destroying my mind
Altering friendships
Drawing me into a deeper depression
Where I slowly cut off things I once loved
I neglect the things that once mattered
Death slowly creeps into my life
Whispering into my ear
You’ll never beat me
Alas, I stop
I let the bottle fall from my hands
Never will I let something have that much power over me
Now real happiness slowly returns
Drop the bottle
Baby, you no longer have to cry the mourners cry
My soul has transcended these earthly realms
My heart no longer beats the pain of the broken hearted
My body doesn’t feel the suffering I’ve experienced
I wish you could see my smile
It’s genuine
I’m freed from the shackles of life
A hell of a life I’ve lived
Don’t mourn for me
Nor say a prayer
I’m where I need to be
And my life has began again
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