Phoenix in the water...

"I’m a phoenix in the water A fish that’s learnt to fly And I’ve always been a daughter But feathers are meant for the sky So I’m wishing, wishing further For the excitement to arrive It’s just I’d rather be causing the chaos Than laying at the sharp end of this knife With every small disaster I’ll let the waters still Take me away to some place real 'Cause they say home is where your heart is set in stone where you go when you’re alone Is where you go to rest your bones It’s not just where you lay your head It's not just where you make your bed As long as we’re together, does it matter where we go? Home Home So when I’m ready to be bolder, And my cuts have healed with time Comfort will rest on my shoulder And I’ll bury my future behind I’ll always keep you with me You’ll be always on my mind But there’s a shining in the shadows I’ll never know unless I try With every small disaster I’ll let the waters still Take me away to some place real 'Cause they say home is where your heart is set in stone where you go when you’re alone Is where you go to rest your bones It’s not just where you lay your head It's not just where you make your bed As long as we’re together, does it matter where we go? Home, Home".

Self preservation

How are you to imagine anything if the images are always provided for you? Doublethink. To deliberately believe in lies while knowing they’re false. Examples of this in every day life: Oh, I need to be pretty to be happy. I need surgery to be pretty. I - I need to be thin. Famous. Fashionable. Our young men today are being told that women are whores. Bitches. Things to be screwed. Beaten. Shit on. And shamed. This is a marketing holocaust. Twenty four hours a day, for the rest of our lives, the powers at be are hard at work dumbing us to death. So, to defend ourselves, and fight against assimilating this dullness into our thought processes, we must learn to read. To stimulate our own imagination. To cultivate our own consciousness. Our own belief systems. We all need these skills to defend, to preserve, our own minds." in Detachment.