We are only born mediocre

Salma 2022-03-27 09:01:14

It's a real event, so it's even more ridiculous

Laugh more and more sad

Because whether you admit it or not

We are all doomed to mediocrity

I was probably stupid when I was a kid, and I was probably smart

When I was very young I read from books that the sun has seven colors

I told the kids around and they all burst out laughing

things like this happen often

I always think differently

always ridiculed

I've felt so special ever since

can't be like them

I thought one day

Aliens will fly flying saucers to pick me up

Or like the Eight Immortals crossing the sea

I am a fairy left in the mortal world

just not found

So whenever there is thunder and lightning

I always lie by the window looking at the sky

Watch the dark clouds roll, watch the lightning pierce the sky

I always feel like a dragon will come to pick me up in the next lightning bolt

And I have to keep watching, lest the dragon will not find me when it appears

I've done a lot of stupid things

There are so many stupid ideas in my head

By now, the idea that the flying saucer might appear

Still occupying the most secret corner of my head

Thus, after decades

Prove that nothing special

And I'm very mediocre

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  • The Real Spencer Reinhard: Van Gogh ended up killing himself. Monet went blind. I felt like they understood something more about life that I wasn't getting to experience. Art has to be about more than just, "My life is great and I'm really good at drawing."

  • Warren Lipka: Seriously, man, fuck fraternities. The reason to be a part of that is so one day you can walk in the door of an office you never wanna go in to see a guy you never wanna meet, on the hopes that he might give you a job you never wanna fucking do.