Walk On – U2

And love is not the easy thing
The only baggage you can bring…
And love is not the easy thing…
The only baggage you can bring
Is all that you can’t leave behind

And if the darkness is to keep us apart
And if the daylight feels like it’s a long way off
And if your glass heart should crack
And for a second you turn back
Oh no, be strong

Walk on, walk on
What you got, they can’t steal it
No they can’t even feel it
Walk on, walk on
Stay safe tonight…

You’re packing a suitcase for a place none of us has been
A place that has to be believed to be seen
You could have flown away
A singing bird in an open cage
Who will only fly, only fly for freedom

Walk on, walk on
What you got they can’t deny it
Can’t sell it or buy it
Walk on, walk on
Stay safe tonight

And I know it aches
And your heart it breaks
And you can only take so much
Walk on, walk on

Home…hard to know what it is if you never had one
Home…I can’t say where it is but I know I’m going home
That’s where the heart is

I know it aches
How your heart it breaks
And you can only take so much
Walk on, walk on

Leave it behind
You’ve got to leave it behind
All that you fashion
All that you make
All that you build
All that you break
All that you measure
All that you steal
All this you can leave behind
All that you reason
All that you sense
All that you speak
All you dress up
All that you scheme…

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When you were a child everyone allowed you into their lives.. they picked you up and gave you the false impression that you’d be accepted all your life…

But as you grew up people found more and more reasons to outcast you! Some incurable disease, a physical condition, a caste and some irrevocable reason to typecast you and throw you into the trash.. and people don’t trust you any more… even your truths are suspected.. who is to blame?

Why does one accumulate all of one’s learning in a place like this for the world to see? All the time the world thinks you’re painting a picture to earn respect … bullshit.. not me!

And all your life you’re kind and nice and polite and humble and follow rules and what comes of it? Nothing! Might as well live while you can and ignore the moral policing!

I sometimes think I empathize with people like Cho Seung Hui… the society creates them. How the hell is poor Ed Kemper supposed to retain his sanity, love and respect for the world, while his father and mother kept shuttling him between them and sent him to his grandparents because they did not want the child to intrude in their freedom? What happens to these people like Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris? You think they’re born that way with a gun in their hand? They are made! Slowly…

Every time you ignore somebody because you find them ugly and boring, you’re probably sowing a seed of hatred in someone else. Nothing hurts like indifference. And all the clever ones seem to know this very well. It is a power game isn’t it? It is not about coexisting, living and letting live. It is about who is better, who is greater, who is smarter, who is fitter!

It is about running all the time. Running away from one problem to another… till the running itself becomes a problem. It is fear… panic, incapability to stop and look at the problem. It is the fear itself which usually exaggerates the problem.

Fine …. keep your stinky chastity, money, good looks and snobbery to yourself… yeah weirdos like me exist… aberrations exist.. if not for aberrations you cannot build your damned systems. There will be a day when your own system would crush you down.. it does not care!