There was a time when I wanted to fly. There was a time when I wanted to feel as alive as possible. Now I'm just scared. Afraid, of how things can go wrong in one second. One moment you are someone and the other moment someone else. There's no story here. No words or figures. Just me. Just me and you. I don't know why you're here. I don't want to know. But I know you know what I'm talking about. You know the pain. We all do. If you don't, just pretend you're lucky. Because you're not.
Pain is universal for us. We can't possibly imagine a world without pain. We pretend it is something evil and cursed. Something rotten and broken. But it's not. It's the only truth other than death. That's the only thing that will still hold your hand when you're waiting for death to come. It is your most trustworthy friend. The only true friend that let's you be.
Death takes you away. Happiness makes you forget who you really are. But pain. Oh, the pain. How many countless artists and art has been made because of pain ?. Almost all of it. Because pain teaches you about a world that is far and isolated from everything. Where you can be truly you. At your best and worst.
But I don't like pain. It's just not for me. I don't thrive in pain. I give myself up. Some people create when they're in pain. I destroy. You can make art both ways. You just can't choose which one belongs for you. And it's killing the world.
The problem in the world is that we're all afraid. We're all afraid to love and be ourselves. We can blame it on everything else but honestly it's our fault. It's inside us and we weren't taught to respect it, we weren't taught to separate pain from love. For us it's the opposite faces of the same coin. Pain is not absence of love, Nor is love presence of happiness. It's born inside everyone differently. It's like our DNA, different for everybody.
We're not taught about freedom anymore. But rules and laws. We're not taught about how we can be ourselves but how we can be someone else. It's a race and we're all losing. We're all losing because there's no finish line. We're all just running because the first guy began to run and then the next followed him. Now anyone who doesn't run will find himself lonely. There's nobody left standing still. Everybody is busy in running to no where. The world feels small now. The universe feels explored. There are more answers to questions now, but we're still clueless.
There is more love to be had now more than ever. There are so many of us now.
But where is love ?. Where is this magical thing. Where does it hide ?.
When I was little I searched for it in people. When I grew up I searched for it in my heart. And today, with a broken heart I know where it is.
Far and unreachable but somewhere beautiful and warm.
There's no pain as the pain from a broken heart. It swallows every inch of your body, your soul, along with every positive energy in the world. It swallows time itself.
The worst part is, even if you could go back and change things... you wouldn't.
That's not love. That's the pain.
That's the pain telling you that you not only need something but something that was a part of you is missing.
The pain is what keeps the love alive and in a way keeps the world alive.
And We'll be nothing without love.
Not with our skyscrapers and latest technology, addictions and trends.
Have you ever met a man who lost on love ? Who saw his love slowly walk away leaving him alone in the universe.
Do you think he still enjoys good food or music ?
Do you think those things matter anymore ?
Love is magical. Magic does not exist. It only appears in a moment briefly only to disappear.
Leaving you scratching your head because you have no clue what hit you.
Getting hit by a train is better, some would say. It's not even anywhere close in my opinion.
And when you're in that pain. You realise there's no difference between love and pain.
But the difference you make.
It's as much more important to heal the world today than live within ourselves in pain.
It's as much more important to stop running for a moment and see around ourselves. See if somebody needs to be picked up.
And love is the only thing strong enough to make us stop.
But you now what ?.
Pain is the only thing that will make you stay.
It's an excerpt from something I was writing once.