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Wednesday, 29 May 2013

Surrender Spring

Posted on 20:09 by simmo

There's no internship waiting for me at the end of this quarter.  Another noisy note to the tune of be careful what you wish for, one of the many trends life keeps referring to, over which I ponder and remain confused.  Summer Plans exist in a fizzled-out form, with cooking and coding at the geographic poles.  They present a guide book to follow, which, coupled with movie theater Met encores, might steer me through summer sluggishness to the other (not greener) side that is autumn.

Inside, It keeps nagging.  It leaves an absurd trail through months, and over years.  Disconnected suggestions are easy to ignore until you see they all mean the same thing.  It doesn't matter whether your closest friend or closest rival leaves the window down, since you are compelled to roll it up again.  I notice the temperature every time.  But when will I give up the easy answer? and is it worthwhile to find the other one?

I take it to heart, I really do.  My personality is empathetic for a reason.  And it is obvious to recognize obligation only accounts for so much.

Spring is the perpetual heartbreak, so it must be given up.  Every year these months flirting between spring and summer borrow winter's classic, empty glare and wear it for my benefit, just me alone.  2011 I treasured it; last year we parted slowly, in some ways like 2010.  A piece of it stays all year.  The formula repeats itself, and you can go a long time in this way, stitching up enough decades to build a spring-struck life.  I certainly will, unless I surrender spring.

Writing it is not doing it, writing is not even promising it.  Writing simply acknowledges that spring permeates everything, all through the twelve months.  Only It proposes to clear a path that will outsmart springs' wily, racing footsteps at my heels.  It displays no guarantees, however.
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    Tuesday, 21 May 2013

    Greatness.

    Posted on 21:25 by simmo
    A lonely golden evening ...
    © meghla_akashe_pori

    Truly great people aren't great by nature.  Greatness takes effort.  Greatness takes something out of a person, leaves a hollow in their humanity where natural, self-preserving pride used to rule and still tries to haunt them.  But there has to be an empty space, else greatness wouldn't hurt.

    They must be humble enough to earn pain, and that is not only what they know, but what they can't see or will never learn about - half by circumstance, half by their disposition to turn the other cheek.  They are the people considered safe and comfortable to hate, because the world has nothing to fear from them.  They are the ones nobody likes to look at, and the ones everybody goes out of their way not to hear.

    They are quiet voices with loud, unpopular thoughts.  They wear a Light on their sleeve that dazzles the sun and stops traffic when drivers aren't looking over their shoulders.  They are Atlas, hunched over, out of sight, under a globe.  They are the beautiful center of that earth, which nobody believes in.

    Truly great people are labelled wrong behind their backs, since it is too inconvenient to look them in the eyes.  In the larger scheme of things, it means nothing, because they know that, for better or worse, a label does not make a person.  It will not hide their greatness, or their weaknesses.  If it would do either, it is because the world is camouflaged around worldly characteristics.  But even this is useless, since truly great people look past all camouflage, and accept whatever is left as the truth.
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