If I had two lives, I would live one as a cheater and the other as a teacher , Living them both concurrently, Yet still entwining them seamlessly. As a cheater, I'd rob myself of the time I'd spend with family and friends in the name of solitude . And I'd strive to have this quiet life that I'd wish to call happy, Only to come back without one and still be unhappy. I'd go back to school and steal back good grades just to look cool, Only to return degraded and still not looking cool. I'd try to climb altitudes without an ounce of gratitude, Only to come back burnt out and with an attitude. But then as a teacher I'd say— To myself I'd say: To live a life is to live a full one. To live a full life is to know you have only one. To enjoy a life is to share it with someone. But what if I didn't have one? What if I was only living someone else's? What if I robbed myself of the only one? What if I was blinded by only bits of it? Aging as a cheater, I...
Often times we start from scratch and ditch it to start from scratch again. I'm not saying we should be infallible, I'm just saying we can do better. Look, we've all been there, in a stagnation phase that seems to never end. Could be in the peaks up there, or in the lowest of valleys . Attitude is everything , buy into some else's and you are finished, no matter who they are. Once you have done your homework and finally chosen to do something, don't let nobody sway you off of it, not even your better half , not even your sloppy self . No matter how you get there, just show up and shut up. But you can still show up and shut up and still not enjoy it? We had a whole life a head of us the day we came into this world. We've never been sure if we've already gone halfway through it, or almost through, we just assume it, based on some jargon life expectancy digits. I have your juice, and look at our days, every other 60 seconds, we never know how they go by. E...