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I'd like to think the best of me
Is still hiding
Up my sleeve
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They love to tell you
Stay inside the lines.
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I just found out there's no such thing as the real world
Just a lie you've got to rise above.
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I am invincible.
I am invincible.
I am invincible while I'm still alive.

"No Such Thing"

"Welcome to the real world", she said to me
Condescendingly
Take a seat
Take your life
Plot it out in black and white
Well I never lived the dreams of the prom kings
And the drama queens
I'd like to think the best of me
Is still hiding
Up my sleeve

They love to tell you
Stay inside the lines
But something's better
On the other side

I wanna run through the halls of my high school
I wanna scream at the
Top of my lungs
I just found out there's no such thing as the real world
Just a lie you've got to rise above

So the good boys and girls take the so called right track
Faded white hats
Grabbing credits
Maybe transfers
They read all the books but they can't find the answers
And all of our parents
They're getting older
I wonder if they've wished for anything better
While in their memories
Tiny tragedies

They love to tell you
Stay inside the lines
But something's better
On the other side

I wanna run through the halls of my high school
I wanna scream at the
Top of my lungs
I just found out there's no such thing as the real world
Just a lie you got to rise above

I am invincible
As long as I'm alive

I wanna run through the halls of my high school
I wanna scream at the
Top of my lungs
I just found out there's no such thing as the real world
Just a lie you've got to rise above

I just can't wait til my 10 year reunion
I'm gonna bust down the double doors
And when I stand on these tables before you
You will know what all this time was for

James Collett You are not born again each day.
#JustSaying

Alan Austin-Smith How on earth did you ever end up on my courses James haha

James Collett Alan, me old mucker - I get your point. I made it to your courses because I want to make myself a better me. And they probably helped me in that pursuit.

I confess to having a predilection for trite aphorisms. However, I have become increasingly frustrated with the ones that state something that is plainly wrong, in order to convey something that might have value.

I get the sense with some of these that simply because a trite statement is aphoristic and clearly intended to be "deep" or insightful, it demands that we accept it as such without analysing or questioning it; and I refuse to do that.

They are trying to make a point. I get that. So I say, "Make the point."

Each morning we are given a fresh day. It's unmarked, unwritten. But it is not a new life, free of obligations and complications from the past; it is a new day, but with shadows cast from yesterday. What we do today is the only thing we can do. We cannot travel backwards in time. So our focus needs to be at least partly on the immediate.

However, stuff in the past matters. Sometimes the stuff in the past is in fact what "matters most" - an example being grieving for a lost relative, say. How we do the grieving would be the immediate thing.

In that this little ditty from the unquestioned wisdom of the Buddah has got me to explore and express these thoughts, I'd say it has been useful.