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Black and White by ~hereticschizoid:iconhereticschizoid:

Categories Literature > Poetry > Philosophical > Open


Complicated used to be just a word in the dictionary,
indecision was pointless,
Unnecessary evil.
A necessary evil now...
the wrong decisions looming in the foreground.

Worry makes us look as old as we sometimes feel.
We all become fraudulent seers,
predicting our own futures with little accuracy...
does it matter?

Does the time spent worrying make the poor outcome okay?
Will the time spent even help in the end?
And pray the end comes soon...
but worry for a while.
Just in case.

Ultimately
the only wrong decisions
are those that need no worrying;
mean well, do no harm, live and let live.

The simplicity of childhood remains;
Indecision is unnecessary.
No mistakes are made; no gray area...
Just deliberate wrong decisions
not made for the faint of heart,
but by the faint of heart.
©2006-2009 ~hereticschizoid
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Author's Comments

This is pretty self explanatory. i was just thinking back and playing around with the connotation of some words that people toss around a lot without really thinking about what they're implying.

To sum this poem up... we all worry a lot about what we might screw up in life, when really the the most important decisions are no-brainers. Everyday we decide not to hurt people or steal from our friends or abuse the trust we're given. Rarely do we actually have to stop and think about that.

Our most important choices are the ones we make without thinking about them.

But when you stop and think about yourself as a person... sometimes we feel like we're not doing very well and our life isn't where we want it and we're not doing very well as human beings. But think about the things you've done right... have you hurt anyone recently?

Because that's a pretty important factor in how you're doing in life, but it's one that we frequently overlook. It's awesome to try to be a good person... but everyone should worry a little less and be proud of not being a bad person. Because there's more of those in the world than you'd think.

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`summaro Aug 13, 2006, 9:18:18 PM
Good sentiment. I agree with you to an extent.
Most of the big things in life aren't really choices for those of us who have consciences, but sometimes the small stuff can have large rammifications, and sometimes you only ever get to choose between two bad outcomes.

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~hereticschizoid Aug 13, 2006, 10:16:25 PM
Agreed, though i still think the most important choices that decide what kind of person we become are ones that require little thought.

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Donate 20 grains of rice playing a word game... it's addictive
"Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much." -Blaise Pascal.
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`summaro Aug 13, 2006, 10:28:00 PM
I agree. :nod:

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~sniper3 Aug 13, 2006, 11:37:05 PM
Deep, yet oh so simple. =d

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Homophobia: The irrational fear that gays will break in and re-arrange your furniture against your will.

Love: The sudden realization that somebody other than you is real.

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~hereticschizoid Aug 14, 2006, 8:06:19 AM
:aww: thanks

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Donate 20 grains of rice playing a word game... it's addictive
"Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much." -Blaise Pascal.
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`VernonX9000 Aug 17, 2006, 1:40:06 PM
I agree that people put too much worry into things that they don't need to. I've had people ask me, when it comes to decision making, how it is I can do them without a lot of flip-flopping back and forth. "Simple," I say "I just go with the most sensible and STICK to it. MAKE it work." It's called Command Decision Making.

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~hereticschizoid Aug 17, 2006, 2:47:47 PM
:nod:

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Donate 20 grains of rice playing a word game... it's addictive
"Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much." -Blaise Pascal.
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=BornBlitzed Aug 21, 2006, 9:57:15 AM
It's my belief that a lot of the hesitation in decision making has to do with what economists like to call the opportunity cost: Is what I'm gaining worth more than what I'm giving up?

In many cases, the close calls you're discussing here are the ones that could go either way—and as such, they're not likely to tip the balance of a person's personality in and of themselves. (Though you can't factor out the butterfly effect: What if one's chosen vacation destination, for example, leads to a romance that obviously couldn't have happened had they gone somewhere else?)

Whereas the easy decisions are easy precisely because the imbalance between those costs have already been estimated well in advance. If I despise the opera, deciding to pass up even free tickets isn't much of a brainer.

So your contention that the easy decisions determine who we are could well be turned on its head: who we are determines which decisions are easy.

The prosecution reserves the right to call rebuttal witnesses, but otherwise rests.

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:| I've tried pursuing happiness. Happiness sought a restraining order.
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~hereticschizoid Aug 21, 2006, 11:19:31 AM
:lol: i like that. You should go write a poem about it :bucktooth:

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Donate 20 grains of rice playing a word game... it's addictive
"Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much." -Blaise Pascal.
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