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It's not in loneliness. There are many like him It's not in not having for whatever he has means nothing. It's not in despair for it is pain that means he's living. It's not in facing his utter purposelessness and cherishing it, because that's all he has. It's not in recognising his own meaninglessness and finding meaning, because that's all he knows. It's in moments of brief escape, in tiny deaths in dreams and waking dreams, where he is awake. It's in seeing the others and knowing they weren't made the same. They were made perfect, unable to question their existence: to not know such pain. It's in his utter contempt for his fellow man; His blind hatred for all living beings. It's in a world in flames and falling apart where he finds peace. Prowling the earth sparing nothing. Only a cruel God could've made such a sorry beast. And the beast stares into himself and coldly confronts his own emptiness He does not know why. Agony to be awake. To live is to die. That's the pain of being human. Cast down into the chaos of history. To be born and to die, for nothing it seems. And to go on, without question; without knowing what it means.
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Jul 7, 2015
Jul 7, 2015 at 1:36 AM UTC
The pain in being human.
It's not in loneliness. There are many like him It's not in not having for whatever he has means nothing. It's not in despair for it is pain that means he's living. It's not in facing his utter purposelessness and cherishing it, because that's all he has. It's not in recognising his own meaninglessness and finding meaning, because that's all he knows. It's in moments of brief escape, in tiny deaths in dreams and waking dreams, where he is awake. It's in seeing the others and knowing they weren't made the same. They were made perfect, unable to question their existence: to not know such pain. It's in his utter contempt for his fellow man; His blind hatred for all living beings. It's in a world in flames and falling apart where he finds peace. Prowling the earth sparing nothing. Only a cruel God could've made such a sorry beast. And the beast stares into himself and coldly confronts his own emptiness He does not know why. Agony to be awake. To live is to die. That's the pain of being human. Cast down into the chaos of history. To be born and to die, for nothing it seems. And to go on, without question; without knowing what it means.
david-nolan
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Jul 7, 2015
Jul 7, 2015 at 1:36 AM UTC
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