I wish sometimes
I could open my head,
take a scalpel in hand
and then operate.
Remove all the things
that I just love to hate:
things that make me
odd, or a little irate,
all the shadows I jump at,
everything that frustrates,
the notorious black dog,
fears that keep me awake.
But then all these parts
are the whole sum of me,
the sum of my choices,
consequences and fate.
And without them
I wouldn’t be who I am today.
So, let me close up my head
and put the scalpel away.
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I’ve had similar thoughts. If I could change who I was… but then I wouldn’t be me. Good or bad. It’s who we are.
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Too right. We are who we are, we take the good with the bad. We are the combination of every element. 🙂
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Yes. If you took it away you wouldn’t be you.
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So true. I think all too often people try to minimise their experiences and faults to try to be someone else. True strength lies in accepting and moving beyond the facile. 🙂
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I think I’d have to scalpel down the neural network as well…
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If we could trim it down every once in a while… 😉
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