Whatever you do — find a way to get something EXTRA When you’re making things — make sure you’re learning things When you’re learning things — make sure the lessons are useful. When you’re learning useful things — make sure the lessons are long-term useful. When you’re learning long-term useful things — make sure …
Tag: Relations
When You’ve to Give — Give
Always be good to everyone, be default, and unconditionally The only exception is to be good to yourself first When you’ve to give — give When you’ve NOT to give — don’t give When you can discriminate — discriminate. Put your gifts in the right hands. Don’t throw your gifts away to be wasted …
The Death of Trust
trust is dead your media failed you your authorities failed you your “science” failed you your politicians failed you even your perception failed you (nothing is what it seems!) once one would lack information, lived in ignorance, never presuming to know what he didn’t know then he would get information. the information started flowing …
Help Me And Doom Me
Help me by not helping me Give me what I want but not what I need Help yourself by helping me Don’t help yourself by not helping me You want to help yourself by helping me You don’t really want to help me — you just want to feel better about yourself You …
If You Can’t Take Them With You — You Have To Abandon Them
Abandoning others is condemned Betraying others is condemned But what if it’s necessary? This has nothing to do with taking yourself up at the expense of others With the exception of you removing yourself from their lives, abandoning them Besides that — you’re not “using” them, you’re not getting one up on them You’re …
You’re Not a Bad Person
You’re not perfect — but you probably are NOT a “bad person” Bear with me We humans are sometimes too binary (and sometimes not binary enough) When things really matter — things like life and death — we learn to be decisive, we learn to be binary Things like good and bad We learn …
Broken
I want you to realize that most men are broken Most men are broken in some way Deep within It’s hardly obvious A hidden bug in a program, or minor hardware damage — not a bad metaphor Some way most men break in some point Usually many points One does continue to function …
To Change Is To Be A Traitor
To change is to be a traitor To change is to betray To change is to abandon the former and embrace the new To change is thus to betray the former The word betrayal implies the negative But what negative? Whose negative? What’s negative? The traitor? The betrayed? The idea? The ideology? The …
Forgive But Don’t Forget
Forgive but don’t forget Obviously don’t forget: you don’t want to make the same mistake twice But do forgive Why do you forgive? Because life is short This day is beautiful Do you want to spoil this beauty with that petty ugliness? Do you want to spoil this short, precious life — harbouring …
About Different Humans
There are similarities and dissimilarities. Similarities are similar, identical — and that’s that. Dissimilarities are different, dissimilar. There are infinitely many ways in which two things can be different — and only one way in which two things can be similar. Dissimilarity is an innately contentious issue for humans — because we are ambitious, …