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I find when I am told To only highlight the important parts The entire thing ends up highlighted Because I can’t tell what is vital I can’t tell apart what I need to understand and what I can’t dwell on So I end up spending all my time On what isn’t important And then time slips by And when it really matters I haven’t spent my time on the right stuff Same as in life I obsess of details that seem important Until they are put to the test And what others had to say about me Was all I cared about back then I didn’t feel worthy of life And I genuinely wanted to die But now I realize I shouldn’t have dwelled on that I shouldn’t have let their judgemental loathing for me Consume me the way it did And now I want to live But I can never get back that time I lost That time I wasted On someone else’s ignorant opinion I can’t take back the things I did The things I thought The pain I felt But it was self-inflicted harm And not by knives or scissor blades But by my own highlighting I hurt myself Because I placed so much value On what they thought of me Highlighting all the wrong things Because no matter how much they hated me Regardless what level of derision lived in their thoughts about me And disgust at my looks and amused at my pathetic personality (as far as they were concerned) It was all meaningless But I let it matter And that was my fault No one else’s I always seem To highlight the meaningless Repost if you Highlight the Meaningless Please comment I love to read your thoughts on anything really :)
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Nov 1, 2014
Nov 1, 2014 at 12:00 PM UTC
Highlighting the Meaningless
I find when I am told To only highlight the important parts The entire thing ends up highlighted Because I can’t tell what is vital I can’t tell apart what I need to understand and what I can’t dwell on So I end up spending all my time On what isn’t important And then time slips by And when it really matters I haven’t spent my time on the right stuff Same as in life I obsess of details that seem important Until they are put to the test And what others had to say about me Was all I cared about back then I didn’t feel worthy of life And I genuinely wanted to die But now I realize I shouldn’t have dwelled on that I shouldn’t have let their judgemental loathing for me Consume me the way it did And now I want to live But I can never get back that time I lost That time I wasted On someone else’s ignorant opinion I can’t take back the things I did The things I thought The pain I felt But it was self-inflicted harm And not by knives or scissor blades But by my own highlighting I hurt myself Because I placed so much value On what they thought of me Highlighting all the wrong things Because no matter how much they hated me Regardless what level of derision lived in their thoughts about me And disgust at my looks and amused at my pathetic personality (as far as they were concerned) It was all meaningless But I let it matter And that was my fault No one else’s I always seem To highlight the meaningless Repost if you Highlight the Meaningless Please comment I love to read your thoughts on anything really :)
Repost if you Highlight the Meaningless Please comment I love to read your thoughts on anything really :)
ember-evanescent
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Nov 1, 2014
Nov 1, 2014 at 12:00 PM UTC
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