Elysian Fields

"I really hate the concept of school for one reason, because somehow in this modern day we have made young people believe that because of their results on a test it determines there smarts. How does getting a 98% on an English essay deem you to be what is considered intelligent? Everyone is intelligent in their own way and just because they aren’t successful in school doesn’t deem them to be unintelligent. The basis of school testing is that people who can write the fastest, pull out the smartest sounding words, and memorize large chunks of information makes them the smartest people in society and I am just not okay with that. Intelligence cannot be tested on paper and this whole idea that you have to get the highest marks in your subjects to show your smarts is beyond my comprehension."

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Jay Gray.

Im not like most people. If I say I’m okay, then I’m fucking okay. Its not me crying out for help, I am okay. Not good, not bad, but okay. So will people stop fucking thinking I’m sad when I say it. Just because a few Tumblr posts say that that is what it means, doesn’t make it true. If I’m sad I’ll fucking tell you. Mind you’re own Goddamn business.

"Sometimes I feel like life is not worth living, as if the seconds do not matter and people are just people in a dying world. The moment I think this, I have to remind myself of all those people who fight for one more day and who would give anything just to see the horizon again. I have to tell myself that those people will die before ever seeing it, and that I wake up every morning seeing the sun rising from the mist, and only in that moment I know that those seconds matter. Everyday people die trying to hold onto the hope of seeing tomorrow, but while lost in that hope, their body gives out on their soul and they are then never to see what we take for granted every day."

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Jacinta Gray

"And then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the saddest smile I ever saw."

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Charles Bukowski

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