When you finally stumble upon the truth you will be amazed at the number of times you have come across it. The number of times you have shrugged it aside, blocked it, misunderstood it, ran from it, hidden away. By this time, however, it will already be too late for most of the things. And the ways in which the world has changed will fall into place – and the signs will seem demystified.
“Though you can see when you’re wrong, you know you can’t always see when you’re right”
- Vienna, Billy Joel
Hopefully, by this time you will have enough experience to understand that there are others, and that the signs differ according to the paths you take. Hopefully, by this time, you will have learned that the intersection is one of the most dangerous places to live and that oncoming traffic will not always be friendly. Hopefully by this time you will have learned how to tread lightly, how to move out of the way while standing your ground. How to stay firm even when your heart is fleeing. How to run when your soul is rooted to the ground.
Hopefully, by this time, you will know that there is a reason there is little to work with. And that those who chose to create more are often demanded to do more. That no matter how far you stretch yourself you will never be able to fill the void in their lives. That there is a reason there have been things that have been regurgitated and re-said.
“(they) said all we ever need is love.
We see the same things
We sing the same songs
We feel the same grief
Bleed the same blood”
- The bird, Anderson Paak.
“I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? —fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die..?”
Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare
By this time you will have learned how to die.
And get back up again.