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Feb 2021
I was misunderstood when told about the "Golden Rule". Humanity follows its own selfish set of immoral guidelines.
We stab each other in the front, without remorse for the pain caused.
Survivors are supposed to have hope for a better tomorrow, but borrowed time means only having time to **** in the cess pool themselves.
Human decency, genuine care, selflessness, compassion, honesty, all lost causes.
If only people didn't prefer to be right over being happy. It's like causing pain has become second nature.
The real sad truth is, everyone will hurt you and almost nobody will love you.
They will spray paint their words with fools' gold, and relish in the ruse, ready to play victim when the music plays.
If I could have one wish, it wouldn't be for world peace, it would be for better people.
No human can be a pillar forever.
A selfless outreach can save a life, and that is more valuable than personal pride.
As "woke" as this civilization is, we are asleep at the wheel. Running one another over, time and time again. Pedestrians even expect it at this point.
Watch the real ones fight through their crucibles, only to end up with boot prints on their foreheads.
It's a shame how supporting one another is harder to find than diamonds in a corn field. This poison needs to be irradicated. Unfortunately, the virus has grown too strong, and hope for healing from one another is like a candle in a wind storm, always wavering, and will inevitably blow out, but....it is what it is.

D. Scaggs

"One"
David Scaggs
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David Scaggs  34/M
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