Helping vs Changing Goals
You don't help someone by telling them to change their goal. If you're going to help them, help them achieve it.
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Imposing on Others
Having a person complain while he imposes his will on others is like watching a dog cry while it devours a child.
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The 50 Percent Random Lie
50% does not mean random. If you beat a grandmaster chess player 50% of the time, you are pretty damn good.
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Our Omnipotence
Every person is the God of their own world, just pitted against the will of all others out there.
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Fairness of Process vs Outcome
You seek fairness, yet you'd rather we all fail together and never reach our dream than allow any suffering along the way. How is that fair?
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Leftovers of Denial
When you deny the existence of the rest of the world, the only things left in your head are facts.
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Building the Ship
I'm trying to build the ship and take sail, yet I can only find people wanting to debate the existence of the water.
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Place in the World
Looking for my place in the world but instead only traveling farther and farther from everything I know.
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Serendipiless
Nothing ever comes by chance. Everything I've wanted to happen I've always had to make happen.
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Stars on the Ceiling
When my vision deteriorated to the point I could no longer see the stars, I stuck some glow-in-the-darks on the ceiling and made my own.
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The Train
The problem with many people is they're waiting for a train but when some old bus comes along, and they see the train so far away in the distance, they go ahead and take that bus, even when it's going the wrong way.
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String of Surprises
Before I even speak, they walk away... A string of unthrown surprises, never to see the light of day.
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Polymath
Jack of all trades? Maybe if I were a master of none and each of my trades alone were not better than your mastery of one.
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Wandering Out Lostly
No matter how far I travel, I can never seem to reach the stars.
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The Rock That Hit Me
See that rock that fell from the sky? That's the one that hit me.
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Sadness of the Eyes
There is sadness behind these eyes, but because there is nothing I can do about it, for the moment, I smile.
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