Emptiness
I look around at the passers by, smile and get nothing.
Desperately searching, waiting for something.
A blank stare.
People who don’t care.
The gravitation towards instant gratification.
A robot in motion.
Fulfilling it’s own notion.
With no regard for the rest.
You will definitely fail your test.
The satisfying of every urge.
The evil within yourself will emerge.
Neglecting to act.
Will be the death of you in fact.
Hello fallow.
Goodbye tomorrow.
Posted by
Dianeism
4:10 PM
It's an eerie thing to walk amongst strangers sometimes. People you will never get to know. Their stories will remain a mystery, which always makes me sad. I've noticed that as I've gotten older, the more and more people won't look you in the eye. I am guilty of this as well, but if we pretend that each other are not there, then we loose a very real connection with the world and each other. It is easy to label a stranger as a bad driver or a moody customer, but this makes them loose other titles that you don't know anything about. The moody customer may have recently been titled widower. If you think of everyone as being very complex, your connection will come to life. People are loosing a sense of responsibility to others. The responsibility to let someone get in front of them on the highway or if someone is being bullied to stop it from happening. If you take responsibility for yourself and others, you are linking the chains of change. You help someone and others follow suit. Bad behavior is contagious and so is good. The more we ignore each other, the more empty we become.
Sell Fish
It’s worth every penny to not be penniless.
Do whatever it takes, take whatever you can get.
Selling fish was his best bet.
Among the market, he charmed with his banter.
People flooded in with a canter.
He won’t do this, he won’t do that.
But, he will carry the fish until it breaks his back.
He juggled the fish in the air with a fake smile and cold scaly hands.
He gets mad when anyone ruins his plans.
It wasn’t just the money he craved, but the attention he was paid.
He would never stop selling fish because he doesn’t know how to be self-less.
The vendor across the street began to steal his thunder.
No longer did his fans reel in for hunger.
Now he’s broke and hooked into a blunder.
His head slumped down returning to his forgotten life with his tail tucked under.
Posted by
Dianeism
7:26 AM
Everyone is guilty of it, sometimes more than others. It's so easy to be selfish, that's why it's so bad. It's easier to do what you want than it is to do what someone else asks of you. But, the more and more you do what you want, the more and more others get disappointed in you. In response, you'll get this unsettling feeling. The more happy you try to make yourself with doing what you want, the more unhappy you will feel, which you may not even realize. As others notice this inevitable action in you, they will then expect it and in return you will continue to live up to their expectations. And of course the opposite is true, that if you only do what others want, then they will walk all over you. One of the hardest things in life to juggle is balance. And just like a person with an addiction (you do have have an addiction to pleasing yourself only or being a people pleaser) you first must realize you have a problem, then take baby steps to correcting it when you see you are falling back on bad habits. Think of yourself as a service to the wants and needs of others and your own and maybe that will help you tip the scale.
1. Giving up means you’ll never get where your going.
2. Sometimes we build walls to see if anyone cares enough to break them.
3. You are the way you are because that’s the way you grew up.
4. One of the hardest parts about chasing your dreams is finding the courage
to do it.
5. Fame dies with out of sight out of mind, money dies when you are buried, but
love is never ending.
6. Everybody is searching for who they are and what they believe in.
7. If God has given you a gift, you cannot claim it as your own because it was
a gift from HIM.
8. Relationships are like prison you’re locked up and marriage is throwing away
the key, so you’d better find someone that you can stand for a life
sentence.
9. Be who you are, but always strive to be the better version of yourself.
10. The hardest thing in life to juggle is balance.
11. You can’t ever win if you keep finding ways to fail.
12. Peace comes from realizing that we’re not so different after all.
Humbled
Humanity has mumbled
Stands up when fumbled
While up in the air
The head in the clouds
Disaster tumbled.
The mess in a heap and bundle
Packaged to serve your grumble
Ashamed with your tail between your legs
Your head descending
Into an un-blinded jumble.
Arrogance is crumbled
By means of humility rumble
Feet firmly on dirt
Body on the ground
To keep you humble.
Posted by
Dianeism
11:14 AM
I have come to the conclusion over the years that being humbled by things that go wrong is a very good thing. Everyone needs to be knocked back down to earth sometimes. Anytime my head gets big about this or that, something always happens that makes me realize that I have no reason to be arrogant. Hopefully, I will always be able to see the cause and effect of the things I do, think, and say. No one likes a cocky, arrogant, know-it-all. In fact, cockyness and arrogance get on my nerves like no other personality trait. I wonder though, for those who are cocky and arrogant, their heads are so high up in the clouds, they can't come down to earth to see themselves for what they are. Or they do see and just don't care. I'm sure they notice the eye rolls in their direction. Anytime I notice any of those traits in myself, I try to correct it. The know-it-all thing is my weakness, but since I know that sometimes I "know-it-all" I try to take other people's opinions into account because I love hearing other people's perspectives. And I do admit when I'm wrong. I am a work in progress, always striving to be a better person and sometimes striving for the impossible perfection.
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