2015年 Mar 11日 Wednesday, 17:49
empathy is the light in humanity
i want to feel more of it every day
music showed me how
all these songs are a collection of people’s memories
and they resonate with me because
i feel things you have felt before
and if i haven’t felt it
i want to understand it
because i want to understand you
because i care about you
even though i know i will never meet see or speak to you
i want to make a vested effort
to stop invalidating people’s feelings
because i have no barometer for your pain
i will never fully understand the context of your life
when i catch myself judging people
i must wave those thoughts away
when people treat me badly
i must remind myself that there is a greater source of pain in their lives
from the past or present
this is not who they really are
we were not born with this anger and hatred
we learned it
i was a disgusting child filled with anger
and took it out on innocent people
already a psychopath at age 5
my behavior was sickening
i did things to people that fill me with regret
i hope that they forgot
but i know that it’s somewhere in their minds
violence never leaves you
terror is vivid
once someone has woven violence into your life
even if you manage to rip out all the seams
there will still be stitch marks left
holes remain there forever
sometimes it seems impossible but
we can let our hatred rest
instead of feeding ourselves rage and bitterness
anger tarnished my mind
it is too much to carry
violence breeds violence
i don’t want to be part of this cycle anymore
empathy will lead the way