Pendulum
The more we talk, the worse it gets.
The further down any one road I go - the darker the sky becomes, until the point where I can't see - can't feel - can't be anymore...
Just like yesterday, like the past years, like a lifetime - playing over and over again on a movie reel. You make the same choices, travel the same footprints, end up at the same places.
If you failed before, you'll fail again. If you succeeded then, you'll succeed now. If you threw in the towel, gave up on the machine, didn't make any more goes at it or try any more tests on it - you'll only do the same thing the second time around. Failure isn't based on any rate other than the rate at which you will always fail. Success isn't gauged by money or power or goodness - only at the rate of which you were created to succeed.
So if you had enough faith back then- you will this time too. And if you always had enought strength - then you do. And if you always stumbled and fell at the very last moment - you always will.
Times don't actually change. From year to year, the same seasons come. The same trees turn the same colors and bloom the same flowers. Animals beget the same animals, and people the same people. The world is a pendulum - swinging back and forth because the same people make the same mistakes at the same times, and so the pendulum must swing.
The same wrongs are brought upon the same people. The same sins of the same fathers - from generation to generation to generation. Man can get no better because he cannot escape the pendulum, the lull of time, the repetition of his own pathetic existence. He cannot learn from his mistakes. He cannot know them until they are already made.
But life, and time, and history goes on anyway. Repeating itself all the same. We all do the same things, make the same mistakes, and hear the same words from different voices - all the same. We hold the same conversations with the same people at the exact same times, only with different faces in different locations around the world. And we run from the things we're most afraid of - only to find them all in the next place we are with the next people we meet.
And the worst part is either we never learn or, even if we do, we can never change.
-RK
The further down any one road I go - the darker the sky becomes, until the point where I can't see - can't feel - can't be anymore...
Just like yesterday, like the past years, like a lifetime - playing over and over again on a movie reel. You make the same choices, travel the same footprints, end up at the same places.
If you failed before, you'll fail again. If you succeeded then, you'll succeed now. If you threw in the towel, gave up on the machine, didn't make any more goes at it or try any more tests on it - you'll only do the same thing the second time around. Failure isn't based on any rate other than the rate at which you will always fail. Success isn't gauged by money or power or goodness - only at the rate of which you were created to succeed.
So if you had enough faith back then- you will this time too. And if you always had enought strength - then you do. And if you always stumbled and fell at the very last moment - you always will.
Times don't actually change. From year to year, the same seasons come. The same trees turn the same colors and bloom the same flowers. Animals beget the same animals, and people the same people. The world is a pendulum - swinging back and forth because the same people make the same mistakes at the same times, and so the pendulum must swing.
The same wrongs are brought upon the same people. The same sins of the same fathers - from generation to generation to generation. Man can get no better because he cannot escape the pendulum, the lull of time, the repetition of his own pathetic existence. He cannot learn from his mistakes. He cannot know them until they are already made.
But life, and time, and history goes on anyway. Repeating itself all the same. We all do the same things, make the same mistakes, and hear the same words from different voices - all the same. We hold the same conversations with the same people at the exact same times, only with different faces in different locations around the world. And we run from the things we're most afraid of - only to find them all in the next place we are with the next people we meet.
And the worst part is either we never learn or, even if we do, we can never change.
-RK
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