misdirection, arrogance, contentment

those batteries are dead and that playlist is no longer fresh. despite the most selfish of intentions your attitude remains in the stale embrace of 'good enough'. you could stand and feel your worth but instead you recline and feel satisfactory. excellence eludes you because you don't have the patience to see where guidance leads you, what boldness allows you to do, or what victory actually feels like.


so we stay awake and drink in the ambitions of others and process them into the ability to receive inspiration. i know success, however measured, is spread thin over an achievement i didn't work hard to get. and we know the outcome of that direction, or this direction, and even the one over there. they are all answers to the questions we ask with veiled whispers, intended to mask the insecurity of our future. death is near, as it always has been and will be- but we can evade it for a moment more by relieving the weight of these beliefs. leave the panty pinching and expressive calculations for the teenagers and politicians.

here comes the wave, let's see if we can ride it.

(know hope).