Mistakes become badges
You wear on your sleeve
Preaching "humility!" "kindness!"
Things you have learned the hard way
We stumble, and fall
To only sometimes get up
And walk away from the rubble
That is the monument to the past
We must remember that waves
Are just parts of the largeness
Of the grandness
Of the ocean
And that all things
Are caused by other happenings
That are caused by other instances
That weren't out to get you
We are all the same
In that we are all different
In that we are all struggling
Towards a mountain's peak
What I wish I was taught
Years and years ago
(Or maybe it's just something
I wished I listened to in the first place)
Is that there is no mountain peak
That what really brings all of the everythings of wishes
Is recognizing the wind that rustles a leaf
On a struggling plant on the bottom of a forest
That the insignificance is the importance
That the smallness is really overwhelming
In meaning and truth
When we notice the path we are taking, we find the answer to ourselves:
Always mistakenly thinking it lead to a mountain of happiness,
But realizing it's really a road of joy we've been on the whole time.
Jan 11, 2013
Jan 11, 2013 at 7:20 AM UTC
Mistakes become badges
You wear on your sleeve
Preaching "humility!" "kindness!"
Things you have learned the hard way
We stumble, and fall
To only sometimes get up
And walk away from the rubble
That is the monument to the past
We must remember that waves
Are just parts of the largeness
Of the grandness
Of the ocean
And that all things
Are caused by other happenings
That are caused by other instances
That weren't out to get you
We are all the same
In that we are all different
In that we are all struggling
Towards a mountain's peak
What I wish I was taught
Years and years ago
(Or maybe it's just something
I wished I listened to in the first place)
Is that there is no mountain peak
That what really brings all of the everythings of wishes
Is recognizing the wind that rustles a leaf
On a struggling plant on the bottom of a forest
That the insignificance is the importance
That the smallness is really overwhelming
In meaning and truth
When we notice the path we are taking, we find the answer to ourselves:
Always mistakenly thinking it lead to a mountain of happiness,
But realizing it's really a road of joy we've been on the whole time.
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