The backward lens Peering within and throughout Past weathered and faded masks Through airs and arrogance All our faces of doubt Nothing hides for long…
Tag: life
I’ve never been a confident man.
I’m sure there’s some elaborate formula that would shed light on the hows and whys: this gene, coupled with that circumstance, those parents, that culture, those schools, those books, that trauma, that success, these friends, those choices, those actions, and that value… multiplied by this belief and that evidence, equals this man?
In the next millennium, those who look back on our time may be curious as to how we persisted — and managed to survive — in such a strange, unbalanced, violent, and stupid state.
There are individual battles, hard fought, likely justifiable, maybe on some level a rebalancing of things. Regardless, meaningful and reality shifting.
One thing you learn as you journey along the path is that whatever you’re looking for out of life is what you’re going to find.