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Truth About People

Everybody has a truth behind themselves and personally, I think I've described it really well. I've come up with this myself. Basically, how life goes for me, whether it's in school, online or just out in the open. I swear, people have no class.

My favorite saying: You say you read me like an open book, but the pages are all torn and frayed. Is true in many ways and then I add my own to make it even truer. Youll never know the real me, if you keep reading the lies that bound the cover of this book. Both of these sayings are my favorite, but who said the first, I surely dont know and I dont take credit for it. Both of these are true in real life with teenagers today, mostly. It goes on the most in school or atleast thats how I see it. Two very powerful sayings, which can stand for many things but only one true thing. Used together, these two can make an impact on others, for they have with me. Makes everybody, stop and just look at me almost in wonder. It sure gives them something to think upon.

Not many may understand what I mean, so Ill explain for those who dont. "Each person is a book, that have different things hidden within them. Ive had so many stereotypes placed upon me, that people want nothing to do with me and therefor Im pushed away. This book is getting all dusted and becomming old, yet nobody has given the chance to stop and give it a good read..They dont know what lies within its pages because they never stop and give the chance to."

I certainly hope, I made a point and gave everybody something to stop and take the time to think about.

`Liz
  • your book metaphor is fitting

    We live in a society that is by necessity shallow. Overstimulation from the simulators of experience, on the airwaves and in the overwhelming mass of objective reportage, and from experience itself in cheaper and progressively more accessible travel.

    These, the currents of our society of both water and electricity, call on us as the pied piper. They lead us not from Hamlin into Candyland, but from "bookish" examination of human relationship on a mass scale into a mindset of total accommodation and satiety.

    Combined with the atmosphere of school, wherein all are encouraged to find identity, or rather validated exclusion, at any cost, what we romantically seek is almost abolished by the spacetime that surrounds us.

    Voted for by Auxiliar.
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  • You can only read a book
    Written in your own language, and in the case of people, your language is your soul. You will never understand the extent of personhood, even in yourself. You can read your book all you want, but you won't finish it in time. And other people's books? You simply try to equate the text to a garbled version of your own alphabet, but the translation is hardly ever correct.

    One only ever sees themselves in others, whom mirror aspects of their own psyche.

    I do believe though there is a more spiritual approach at understanding people, and we can attune ourselves to this, if only we attempt to listen.
    Voted for by TeChNoWC.
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  • Liz, I know your absolute core
    The book is a story. Everybody has a story. At our core we are absolutely the same. We are Awareness. That is our True identity. But that awareness has no story. It is just what it is. That's not a lot of fun is it? We were given a story to start out with. Thus, your story begins with your parents and where you were raised. When you get older and remove yourself from the family you become your own writer. You continue the story. The story is not really you; it is yours, but it is not you. But you have to continue the story. In other words, what Americans have in common with their story is that they are Americans. But if a particular person's story does not move out from drinking Budweisers, watching TV and beating up the dog then that story is boring because we've known it. It is possible that people who can't look further into you have not been trained in looking deep. It could also mean that you have not been going as deep as other people. I don't know your story. But I'm sure it is interesting. Meet me for a drink sometime and tell me about it. I'll listen.
    Voted for by Brew Kline.
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