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Better

Better. Better is a term. A word. A concept.

It could mean something more, I suppose,

but in reality,

everything is what it is

we just want to make it out to be more

Everything is nothing - and we don't wrap our heads around this idea

We can't believe this because:

If we tell ourselves that everything (even the things that mean the world)

are nothing

 

Then we are nothing also

And we cannot bare to be nothing.

 

If I am nothing than I have no purpose, no reason, no substance.

If I am everything there will be nothing else

Which is worse?

To be a grain of sand

or to be the ocean that smothers every other grain?

 

Lose lose situations are my specialty...........................................Ah! But, what if you are something.

Just something. That is the thing to be. Smack in the middle

between a ghost and a giant,

life and death

 

That is where I want to be.

Where I want to spend my days,

and that,

that is improvement.

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