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Well until a few years back i used to be a deep thinker...I was amazed when i read my old journals because i couldnt belive how i've lost contact with myself these days...there is so much stress around me...i used to write brilliant poetry before... but now when i write poems they sound lame... i wanna be the same deep and articulate person that i was...how??
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I Am I Was
I don't know who I was anymore only who I am. I see clearly what you were, shame on me for changing that when I am so thankful for what you made me.
I hear so often how short life is, yet, I feel its length. I have lived two lives within the span of one, what I was and what I am. I have been lifted up by your truth, your innocence and benefited in your pain. Your simplest beauty seen deep within your eyes, so often hidden by humility and lies, once told twice believed. Your brilliance seen by oh too many few, clearly seen in photographs, most forgotten, I recognize now.
Could I give it back or must it remain wrapped within the confines of my mind? Such a gift given should not be taken. This life I live in recognition, in remembrance, in shame for what I have taken hoping well to give enough in return, knowing too well, two lives to be not enough to give what I have taken.
Rick Gilbertson
Depth comes from thinking about what is important, not, "how will I fix my hair today", or, "where will I apply for a job today."
If you're thinking about, "what do I want to do with my life", or, "what is life about". that requires you to think deep thoughts.
Believe it or not, but when I was your age, I couldn't write a poem to save my life, (some would say I still can't), it wasn't until I set my spirit free and my wife had much to do with that. Poems are but a single thought brought into clarity.
What you write is not important, just write, if it has meaning to you, it will have meaning for others.
Read stories that have depth, try "The Vegetable Stand" by Rick Gilbertson. Go to Iuinverse, you can read a bit of it there. If you want to think deep, you need to find things that help you get there. Stop listening to music so much, it has a tendency to make you stupid.
Fly free good spirit, prioritize your life and what is important, there is your first category for deep thought.
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