we get bored with the
routine
and crave beauty
and excitement
fire is beautiful
and we know that if we get
too close it will kill us
but what does that matter
it is better to be happy
for a moment
and be burned up with beauty
than to live a long time
and be bored all the while
so we wad all our life up
into one little roll
and then we shoot the roll
that is what life is for
it is better to be a part of beauty
for one instant and then cease to
exist than to exist forever
and never be a part of beauty
our attitude toward life
is come easy go easy
we are like human beings
used to be before they became
too civilized to enjoy themselves
(part of) "the lesson of the
moth" by Don Marquis in "archy and
mehitabel"
She doesn't give advice anymore. She's not your
go-to-happy-gal.
She isn't known to be happy anymore.
And when she is happy,
she never cherishes it.
She knows it'll leave soon after. But what she doesn't
understand is, happiness isn't something you
can expect to stick. You have to work to keep it
there.
It is the hard route of the two to go on.
If you don't work at keeping yourself happy,
it will leave. This world is too harsh to just
expect happiness to stay. If it leaves, drag it
back. Don't set such high expectations for something with
low standards. Work for what you want and
desire;
wishes don't become reality if you don't
work.