petty

[Mellabopper]

i sit here
two days after a national tragedy
and i bitch about my wants
my desires
and how they go unfulfilled.
i stop mid-way
thinking 'how could i be so selfish?'
i delete everything i just wrote.
the shit that i was gonna bitch about-
how i'm stressed or lonely or tired
or have everything i want taken away from me
it means nothing
they're petty
in comparsion to others losses
because really, i still have the most important things -
i've got my health
i have my family and friends
and they are all alive and well.
i shouldnt ask for anything else
i shouldnt need anything else.
because everything else
in the shadow of what happened
is petty.
and i shouldnt be bitching
and i shouldnt be pissed
or just thinking about myself
i should be damn grateful
that i am still alive.
and i am.
9-13-01
Mellabopper
[This message has been edited by Mellabopper (edited 13 September 2001).]

 

[MiNiMoWs]

i like that a lot.
~thank you~
xoxox.barbie

 

[EbowTheLetter]

It's not petty to keep yourself in mind. It would be petty not to feel, not to care about the plights of thousands, the grief of millions, and the dark clouds that have been hanging over this country, even on these past sunny days.
Your problems, your wants, your bills, your pains, your joys, your life, it's all still there. The world still turns, time marches on, and you still breathe.
Breathe deeply, live well, for we've been bittersweetly baptised and renewed in a horrible act of violence.
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you've said the air was singing,
it's calling you you don't believe
these things you've never seen, never heard,
never dreamed.

 

[E-girl]

i thought the same thing.
when this happened, i was sitting at my computer, waiting for justin to get here so he could take his things.... but suddenly, the butterflies in my stomach weren't there for him anymore. the whole fight that spanned over the past 8 months suddenly didnt matter.
it made me look at life a lot differently. the good and the bad. i've taken a lot of things for granted in the past.... but not anymore. this was a real eyeopener.
you put all our thoughts into words tonight mella.
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E-girl
IM: tiggersgurl2067
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."
~~ Helen Keller

 

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