Philosophy Spirituality

no GRANDNESS

 

failure, weakness, inability, pain, suffering, humiliation

are beautiful

 

failure, weakness, inability, pain, suffering, humiliation

are beautiful

in how they dispel this grand illusion

of your grandness

 

you’re not grand

whether you think you’re grand or think you’re shit

you’re neither

 

whether you think you’re grand or think you’re shit

you do harbor hopes and desires of GRANDNESS

tomorrow

 

you are so grand tomorrow, in your dreams

you are grand and everlasting

and grand

you “made it”

what a lie

 

failure, weakness, inability, pain, suffering, humiliation

are beautiful

because they dispel this dream of grandness

 

failure, weakness, inability, pain, suffering, humiliation

are beautiful

if you can take it

 

can you take it?

crying is not the way

vowing is not the way determination is not the way

resignation is not the way

none of that faces the problem

all of that escapes the problem

only accepting it faces the problem

 

“changing it” doesn’t face the problem

you can’t change the elementary truth about yourself

you’re not so grand

you won’t be so grand tomorrow

with all your infinite freedom you are still at the mercy of tomorrow

fate doesn’t diminish your burden of choice

yet the choice itself doesn’t diminish the fate’s sovereignty over you

you are not so grand

and you will fucking die

 

failure, weakness, inability, pain, suffering, humiliation

are beautiful

if you can accept it

in the light of acceptance of the truth delusion is eradicated

the lie of hope is eradicated

the anxiety of becoming is alleviated

 

I know you wish you will be so pretty tomorrow

ah we all do

we all want to believe that tomorrow will be better

but it won’t be

it will be just what it’ll be

nothing more nothing less

 

if you can accept it

failure, weakness, inability, pain, suffering, humiliation, fear, injustice, destitution, loneliness

if you can accept it

WITHOUT being either negative or positive

without judging it imposing your version of reality on it

you are free

 

tomorrow will be just what it’ll be

not your pipe dream not your childish ambition

not your pessimism either not your fatalism

be ready for the worst and for the best without any expectations

and in it you shall find peace and freedom