A Life Worth Living
Challenge the limits you set for yourself
When you were too tired to predict the consequences
Examine the desperation behind daily darkness
A poisonous buildup within a practice of working through lunch
And the costly decision to pay for drinks instead of doctors
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Take out dusty dreams of driving to the mountains
Replace well-worn excuses of work with play
Buy time to belt your favorite love song
Reserve cash for luxurious lunches
And prioritize health above another promotion
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Don't miss the glory within daily drudgery
by requiring regret
in case Time's progress presents a fatal accident
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ElshaHawk LoA
My son asked me why we're here, alive, what was our purpose? He's 11. He was like, you work to make money to live, then you die. I was like... you have to discover your purpose. You're too young to know it. He was like, that IS my purpose, to work, to make money, and to die.
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Robert Quick
When reading this last night, I had taken it as a negative piece, but today I see it as the Carpe Diem that it is. It's easy to get caught up in the tedious bull shit of life and poems like this are a good reminder that we need to make sure that we have a life worth living despite that tedious bullshit (or if you can manage it, including it). Anything that reminds me of the David Foster Wallace speech "This is Water" is a good to have in my book.