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May 2017
We seem to forget and rediscover things often
By we, I mean human species as a whole

The cure for scurvy
Never bringing enough water on a hike

And we make these mistakes over and over and never learn from them
The importance of history
Solidify the facts o ye just one
Write them down
Crumple of the fragile material
Scrape away the pictures frozen in time
Let go only to realize you needed what you have forgotten

The past is liquid until you have proof
I'm sorry, it's the truth
Unless your truth is different
Because right now the past is feeling pretty blurry (and who am I to sat your past is a lie)
Clouding over my eyes like cataracts and I can't tell if the truth is what it says it is

And we forget though we learn it over and over that the truth is never
The truth

Number one proof?
The example, the posterchild of lies, the master of facades, the broken screen door that gets repaired over and over again in hopes that your dog won't attempt to run full speed into it?

The two sides of a human

At this point this information should be engraved on our brains but we always forget
We would immediately say that these two sides are happy and sad

The two most basic feelings

However, I believe, bear with me, that the two sides are the predictable side and the unpredictable
that only ends up unpredictable because we forget what happens in those unpredictable moments
Only to be brutally reminded that humans are occasionally

very

unpredictable

Predictably unpredictable and
Predictably predictable

These are the two sides
The things about humans we like to forget
Written by
Andy Lee
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