And there are thousands in the crowd outside everyday. And everyone's there. And they love me. And I don't care. Because they're not you.
All the hardest, coldest people you meet were once as soft as water. And that's the tragedy of living.
You think that you're fundamentally "you". That even without three meals a day, the people around you and the things you've been exposed to, you would still be the same person with the same ideas, morals, values and attitude towards life. But you wouldn't be. You would be "them". The great "them" that seem so stupid and alien and far away in other countries. And they're reading this right now, wondering if they could be you.
I always thought that I was sick and you were the cure. But everyone gets things backwards sometimes.
Being enlightened doesn't mean being happy. It means you're ok even when things aren't.
Unfortunately, you don't get what you deserve. You get what you think you deserve.
You'd think it would be easy for them to mark with red the cigarette that killed you so that you wouldn't smoke it, the drink that does you in with a label cautioning you not to, the kiss that ends the world with flashing lights that spell out the words "Stay Away."
If I were you, I'd be beautiful.
You're at the top of my list of meaningful decisions I need to make.
But nothing is wasted. There's no song you can listen to, no person you can speak to, no moment it takes to see things as they are that doesn't teach you something. You need everything you know.
Did you think I would forget how to love? It's like riding a bike. Everyone falls off and scrapes their knees sometimes.
You are the best parts of all the songs I love.
To find you and love you for all that you are. That's the reason I was sent to Earth.
We help people when big things happen to them, when you see them getting hit by a car, when a brother or a sister or a father or a mother dies, we're there for them because we can see that death kills more than the person it takes. And yet, the people around us who die a little all the time, moment by moment, who require the least help, the smallest sacrifice, are the ones we ignore completely.
Not the first one in the morning or the one on the TV, the well-meaning phone call on a Monday night one or some you find on the radio - The voice that whispers between your ears before you fall asleep, that's the one you pay attention to.
These things take time to remember. But you weren't always like this. I knew you before.
You are so full of the things that you don't have that you don't have space for the things you do.
So if you love me but you don't need me, you don't love me.
So may you find in each other what you came here for. And trust that this is love because it is (love is trust). And tangled lives you may lead but into each other, never apart, till you cannot distinguish between being and being together.
Small people only want one thing from you: Someone else to be as small as they are. Stay big.
If it was easy, everyone would do it. But it's not. Which is why it's up to you.
All the hardest, coldest people you meet were once as soft as water. And that's the tragedy of living.
You think that you're fundamentally "you". That even without three meals a day, the people around you and the things you've been exposed to, you would still be the same person with the same ideas, morals, values and attitude towards life. But you wouldn't be. You would be "them". The great "them" that seem so stupid and alien and far away in other countries. And they're reading this right now, wondering if they could be you.
I always thought that I was sick and you were the cure. But everyone gets things backwards sometimes.
Being enlightened doesn't mean being happy. It means you're ok even when things aren't.
Unfortunately, you don't get what you deserve. You get what you think you deserve.
You'd think it would be easy for them to mark with red the cigarette that killed you so that you wouldn't smoke it, the drink that does you in with a label cautioning you not to, the kiss that ends the world with flashing lights that spell out the words "Stay Away."
If I were you, I'd be beautiful.
You're at the top of my list of meaningful decisions I need to make.
But nothing is wasted. There's no song you can listen to, no person you can speak to, no moment it takes to see things as they are that doesn't teach you something. You need everything you know.
Did you think I would forget how to love? It's like riding a bike. Everyone falls off and scrapes their knees sometimes.
You are the best parts of all the songs I love.
To find you and love you for all that you are. That's the reason I was sent to Earth.
We help people when big things happen to them, when you see them getting hit by a car, when a brother or a sister or a father or a mother dies, we're there for them because we can see that death kills more than the person it takes. And yet, the people around us who die a little all the time, moment by moment, who require the least help, the smallest sacrifice, are the ones we ignore completely.
Not the first one in the morning or the one on the TV, the well-meaning phone call on a Monday night one or some you find on the radio - The voice that whispers between your ears before you fall asleep, that's the one you pay attention to.
These things take time to remember. But you weren't always like this. I knew you before.
You are so full of the things that you don't have that you don't have space for the things you do.
So if you love me but you don't need me, you don't love me.
So may you find in each other what you came here for. And trust that this is love because it is (love is trust). And tangled lives you may lead but into each other, never apart, till you cannot distinguish between being and being together.
Small people only want one thing from you: Someone else to be as small as they are. Stay big.
If it was easy, everyone would do it. But it's not. Which is why it's up to you.
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