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Vinnie Dec 2024
People can be described as
rotting apples.
You’ll never see just how rotten they are until it’s too late,
when the polished surface of the apple becomes shrivelled and unsightly—
making its presence more than known, with a terrifying
lack of
shame.
Vinnie Dec 2024
You can throw stones at glass,
It will break.

Or perhaps beat your fists against the glass,
It will break.

Some say you can even shatter it with your voice,
The glass will break.

If it’s surroundings become too heated,
It will shatter.

A thin sheet breaks easier,
Though a thicker one will outlast.

Even then,
You should still be careful,
Because all glass breaks eventually no matter how soft or hard it’*****.

Such a delicate material,
Yet still to be treated like a forever unbreakable stone wall,
Or a thing only made to fit the use of whoever wants it.

No glass can be forged the exact same as any other,
Even to the last microscopic detail,
So you should value it as it is.

Not all glass is bulletproof.
Not all glass is wired to resist force.
Not all glass can take so much strain,
so for it’s sake,
treat it carefully.
Vinnie Dec 2024
I’m unsure whether to call love foolish because it hurts me,
or whether to call
myself
foolish for
always
falling for it.
Vinnie Dec 2024
You are not
unworthy.
The world is
protecting
you from its
horrors.
Vinnie Dec 2024
A worryingly wide percentage of our kind on earth are
utter fools.
It’s always
‘If you do it I’ll do it.’
‘Well they aren’t so I’m not either.’
Or,
‘I have to be just like them.’
You have
individuality—
an absolute
god given
gift,
so stop reducing yourself as
low
as to others’ standards and
fearing
standing out.
It only creates
ingrained weakness,
a wound so deep that one day you will finally realise it will ultimately
never
   heal again.
Vinnie Dec 2024
?
Philosophy exists,
but where is the
change
in the world
meant to
accompany
it?
Vinnie Dec 2024
Humanity is blessed by the arts.
Drama, painting, drawing, music, writing—
all at our disposal to escape life,
to force
everything to the
back
of our minds
and only focus on what our
eyes
and
ears
receive, even if only for a few
minutes.
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