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Looking for Our Beautiful Past
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Looking for Our Beautiful Past |
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themute Member
since 2006-05-08
Posts 469Maryland 
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Why do we wish for what we once had before? It all seems so good when we look back on it Friendships we’ve lost, family times, love But when we long for what’s gone it hurts us More than just living in the past, it hurts the future We want what we have now to be what was And yet it never seems to be that way at all We yearn for what we do to be beautiful For every moment to be as pristine as our fond memories And for our fond memories to be as beautiful as we make them But they are no warmer than now, no quieter There are always conflicts, which we choose to ignore Always pain that we choose to be numb to Always a tear that is forgotten in time Or a closeness that was never that close to begin with And yet life seems to be better this way To live in a kind of ignorance to the reality of your past That way you can look back and say it was lovely I think I’ll try to not think so much of what was good then Maybe I’ll live more in the present and find out what’s good now I am the two-toed wanderer |
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LeeJ Member Patricius
since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296 |
yupper, you've hit the nail right on the head, and in a very interesting way... wonderful way to view life... |
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