Reminiscent

Here's a piece of my mind. what's been swirling around in my head for the last 3 months.


4/8/10



You learn to sit in class
And not hear a word the professor’s sayin
You learn to get where you need to get running late
Going 90 with 2 minutes to spare
You learn that people lie to get what they want
And that their inconsistencies may affect you
But it can never change your consistency,
And that memories
Don’t’ fade with time
Risk is a weight of
a prize
And that an answer to one question
Only leads to another
And you can walk upright in heels
Even when the wind is crazy
But your time management through 4 years of college
Never gets any better
And you wonder whether the school work really isn’t challenging
Or you’ve become sharper
And that three pairs of shoes may be changed
In one day to fit the current role
And that there is such thing
As too much caffeine
That there’s no distance far enough
That you shouldn’t go
For a mere assurance of reality
That you are where you are
Where you’re supposed to be
Doing what you were meant to do
You learn to be all there
And that you may have to prepare yourself
For the letdowns of other people
And that goodbyes never get any easier
The older you get
They only come all the more often
But they never teach you how to hold in
Your tears
And you question whether it’s a good or bad thing
That you don’t know how to fake it
That every one reaches a breaking point
And 2 hours of sleep really is not enough
For 20 hour days
And that unhappiness is written all
Over their faces
When they’ve got every distraction in the world to bother
And that two people can want the exact same thing
And still not get it
And that when the recipe calls for one teaspoon,
One and a half can mess it all up for good
And that some people go on seeking
What they really don’t even want
Because they don’t see otherwise
And that some friendships are forever
And some friendships can end immediately
Without warning
Betrayal comes unexpectedly
Like death, you can only prolong
An inevitable for so long
And that the older you get
The more songs you know
The more songs you hear
The more they remind you
Of that one block of time
You’d rather forget
And that time is nothing
If it’s spent waiting for the right thing
Rather time crying over
The wrong thing
And that one thought can be the seed
To shared dreams
That would change the world around you
And that life is meant to be shared
And wisdom
Meant to be spoken
and when some people say forever
they really mean for the time being
for as long as things stay the same
but life changes
and forever becomes
forever encased in that moment
and that you’d rather live looking
like a fool
than live wondering what if
and that no matter how much you wish
the rain to not come
it comes
and when you've surrendered everything,
surrender what's left
and that the best things
are the unexpected things
and no matter how rough the world gets
you can’t let it steal your gentleness
and you’d be one in a million for it.
And that it pays to flesh out your hurting heart
Because it makes your love cavernous
The way it is made to be
and that living intentionally is way better
than living lost without a direction and
And the road of intentionality is a road
Filled with, despite what others may think,
Adventure
Because in purpose, desire, and faith
There is still conviction, conflict, and uncertainty