Far greater things in the world for myself to one day understand...
and yet such simple things seem to steal my focus.
As much as I strive to understand, I cannot, and in some ways, will not,
understand how people can allow themselves to claim, say, or speak one thing, and then just as quickly, turn around and go against it. Simple things such as disliking a person, or even just having no interest in them, and then commenting on statuses and their lives as if they do care, when they have just explained to you that they in fact, do not.
Or when people say they do not wish to be a part of something, and then throw themselves right into it.
What I understand out of this is that yes, as humans, we often run to things we secretly love and publicly 'claim' to dislike. We hide our true feelings. Daily. And whether that be because of a specific person, place, circumstance or feeling, it must stop. Because although people prove time and time again that we are with fault, we deserve truth. We need it.
And far too often, we are not given it.
On another note, I am almost finished reading John Lennon's biography, and I must say, I have learned so very much about him. And not only him but his time. The era in which he became famous and the time in which revolution and a massive change of culture was in effect. And while his life tells a story of devastation, addiction, hard work and then, love, what I found to be most interesting was the relationship between the Beatles themselves and the truth behind those relationships. Things the world did not see.
I was unaware that John and Paul had such a history in the way of friendship and life situations they had helped each other through. I had always assumed it was just a musical connection. However, as I read on, they were simply each other's other half- by means of musical half, creation half, brother half. They were the reason that the other became famous. They were what created, and then tore down the Beatles and all that they had created because of it.
And they were simply people.
Pursuing a dream and then realizing that dreams sometimes, have flaws.
And that they are not what life is all about.
Realizations.
And I have recently become distracted by feathers and their meaning...and how I can incorporate this into a tattoo.
But commenting on statuses is a new tool by which we can share ideas even across the social boundaries which you just described. That's the ideal at least. In reality however its usually pointless interaction between two socially isolated people, pertaining to nonsense with the occasional racist slur... Now that I think about it you're right on that one.
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