Tuesday, December 21, 2010

The boy with the dragon tattoo...

There are so many sayings out there about doing what you want. But what about when what you want isn't the right thing to do? What about the consequences, the realities, the people who get hurt in the process? Don't we have to think of them? What if you're not getting what you want, but you're getting enough? Do you risk it all to get it all, or do you stay in place? Do we have to reach for happiness or can we settle for content? And what if what we want, doesn't want us? What's to be said for desire? It's not concrete; it can't be held or promised. It could be fleeting. So what if we give up what we have and we're left with nothing? Is it wrong to be that selfish? So tell me where does the line lay, and when is it okay to cross it?

Impossible is just a big word thrown around, by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given, then to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration, it's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing...


There's a huge difference between giving up and letting go. Because giving up is sacrificing what was rightfully yours, but letting go, is forgetting what never was. Remember those walls I built? Well, they're tumbling down and they didn't even put up a fight, they didn't even make a sound. And finally I've realised that the goal is not to live forever, the goal is to create something that will...