~Truths as I Know Them~

A few years ago, on my birthday actually, I wrote a list of "Truths", which were meant to be insightful, funny, tongue-in-cheek, whimsical, and wise.

I've re-read the list a few times since then, and I still like some of them (which is more than I can say for much of my earlier prose).

The original style I employed was to write something true and then write something contradictory which was also true. The tactic didn't last long and they just became interesting little two-liners (more or less) with a declaration and then a balancing thought or twist.

Here are some of my favorites, and for my headache friends, there are even some on ~pain~


~Truths~

Great wings can give flight
Or they can encumber


You must fall from
To fall into


Pain makes me vulnerable
In my vulnerability, I am my best self and my worst self all at once


Physical pain does not limit itself to flesh and blood
It hungrily consumes my spirit, too


There is no recompense
For the loss of one's self-respect


There are few things I understand
As well as my failures


Being consistently honest
Helps when you need to lie


Pain is a miserable liar
That pretends it has something to teach me


You always get
What's coming to you


People know better.


We give each other lessons
- the ones I give you, I am doomed to repeat
- the ones I receive, I likely won't


You must brace yourself
To soar madly


One can never know
What secrets are kept from them


In my kind of pain, at least there is hope
In some kinds, there is none


We must leave to our will
Those things for which we are unwilling


I know my heart will offer up its answers
Even when unquestioned


If you take your eye off the ball,
It will likely just bounce off your head


Pain deconstructs me, day by day
But it also deciphers me


Maybe my sadness is a past life memory
Of impossible bliss?


To love someone unconditionally
Is to throw one's reckoning to the ground


If you lean into the wind
Be sure to have your wings on


When you climb up, the view is better
But the fall lasts longer


When you make big mistakes
You make smaller ones next time


One should never lie
Without deciding "who to?"


Our armour protects us from myriad things
Most of which is feeling
Least of which is pain


When we dare to dream
We should check if we are sleeping~