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Tell Him.
I helped an elder while you were asking for miracles.
I was someone's happiness when you were praying.
Tell God that next time you talk with Him.
Literature
Older
Time is a lonely bastard child. I know
how it feels.
I explore the spaces inside, moist hollows
where the angels once worked
their mischief. Strange
what you can grow accustomed to. I probe
the old scar tissue: smooth, numb
in places. I imagine I can feel
their shades, tactile afterimages: a zombie
reflex, a longing
for a longing. It pulls
at the center of my chest.
I miss the certainty of need.
I examine new possibilities, take
steps, show interest, craft a proposition,
cut a book deal. I have always been honest,
good
for others, even at my worst. I read. I write.
I observe, offer advice. Business is easy
to come by.
I have my way with w
Literature
An Apple for the Teacher
Her name was Miss Mills. She was twenty-two years old and fresh out of college, and my son was a student in her first ever kindergarten class. He fell in love with her on the first day of school. He never told me this, of course, but a mother always knows. He came home that first day and he sparkled as he told me everything that had happened, how Miss Mills had read them a story from a brightly colored picture book and how he had hung on her every word.
"And I want to get her an apple," he announced.
"An apple?" I asked. I was peeling grapes for his lunch the next day.
"Yes," he said, "it was in the book we read today. The kids, they
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" Anyway, we can do nothing. "
I just hate this sentence. Really.
It's so easy, so weak, so coward, to say a such thing.
If all the people I've met who said that were able to unite, they will be able to do something, there is no doubt about that.
But it's easier to buy ourselves a pitiful pretense. An empty conscience.
Until when ?
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As a member of
I have to ask some questions about my text, so I hope you will give me some answers 
What do you think about the fact that I mentionned ?
Do you think that it's rude ?
Do you think that the choice of the title is good ?
Thank you !
I just hate this sentence. Really.
It's so easy, so weak, so coward, to say a such thing.
If all the people I've met who said that were able to unite, they will be able to do something, there is no doubt about that.
But it's easier to buy ourselves a pitiful pretense. An empty conscience.
Until when ?
____________________
As a member of
I have to ask some questions about my text, so I hope you will give me some answers What do you think about the fact that I mentionned ? Do you think that it's rude ? Do you think that the choice of the title is good ?Thank you !
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If I may suggest "learned helplessness" as a title? I think the irony is more implied than explicit, so...
I don't think it's rude. But like all philosophical statements (and I mean this in general, not in direct reference to what you've said here), there's so much scope for hypocrisy. I know that it frustrates me when people say they can't do anything about something, but at the same time, I know there are situations when I've said similar things myself. I also think one person standing up alone, unseen and unsupported to something enormous is rather useless. I mean, it's morally great of them to do so, but unless I know I'm going to make a palpable difference in at least one person's life by what I do, I'm not going to take that stand, especially if it means throwing away my life. I know someone who decided to take a stand against the fashion industry and society's insistence on thinness by starving herself--she wanted people to see how wrong it was. Problem was, no one really understood what she was getting at and thought she was crazy. Didn't change a thing--all it did was mess with her health, both physical and mental.
Just giving you my views on the matter, not so much critiquing your piece
I don't think it's rude. But like all philosophical statements (and I mean this in general, not in direct reference to what you've said here), there's so much scope for hypocrisy. I know that it frustrates me when people say they can't do anything about something, but at the same time, I know there are situations when I've said similar things myself. I also think one person standing up alone, unseen and unsupported to something enormous is rather useless. I mean, it's morally great of them to do so, but unless I know I'm going to make a palpable difference in at least one person's life by what I do, I'm not going to take that stand, especially if it means throwing away my life. I know someone who decided to take a stand against the fashion industry and society's insistence on thinness by starving herself--she wanted people to see how wrong it was. Problem was, no one really understood what she was getting at and thought she was crazy. Didn't change a thing--all it did was mess with her health, both physical and mental.
Just giving you my views on the matter, not so much critiquing your piece