Thursday, July 30, 2009

Barely hanging on...

Sometimes reality has a way of sneaking up and biting us in the ass. The world of pretend is a cage, not a cocoon. We can only lie to ourselves for so long, and when the dam bursts, all we can do is swim. Because here's the thing; we are tired, we are scared and we have no idea what to do. Denial does not change that. Sooner or later we have to put it behind and face the world head on, gun's blazing...

There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. But omitted, and the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat, and we must take the current when it serves, or lose the ventures before us...