Wayward and Parliament
by fidgefractures
It’s so easy to give into temptations. It feels good, it feels good to slip away into a sub form of consciousness. It’s easy to steal away from realities and it’s also so easy to forget what your purpose is. It’s so easy to let responsibility slide and to lay blame on every facet of one’s life, that isn’t adding up to the equations you’ve worked out in your head, on circumstance. So here is the answer … step up and quit blaming the universe for a broken past.
Laying down on Parliament grounds, staring at the sky, I tallied up a list of accomplishments and failures. And then I closed my eyes and mentally threw it away. I could lay there and weigh myself as a human being on paper or I could value myself as a human being based on lessons I’ve learned and the wisdom I can impart.
In a perfect world there would be no strife … at the same time there would be no reason to push yourself. Isn’t that what we’re supposed to do? Push ourselves to be our own personal best no matter what is thrown down on our paths? Isn’t that part of being a logical and smart human being? Isn’t this what separates us from the rest?
There are those of us who will lay down and let our souls die because of a few failed relationships, or the loss of close friends, or the loss of a dream. Then there are those of us who will always give the universe the finger and continue on steadfast on our path. Doesn’t matter what our past has dictated because that’s where it is. In the past. And already we’re the architects of our futures. So why are we going to stare at buildings that are falling down forming rubbles of the broken foundation we tried to build on? We’re going to do what we know how to do best … start over. Work with what is already stable and make it better.
Always pushing, always fighting … my parents call me resilient though I am sure it’s more of a polite way of saying I am stubborn. I’m sure it could be construed as a character flaw but it’s one that I am okay with. I have something that dna promised me but that my birth parents never knew.
A desire to be great.
