God, grant me the serenity 

to accept the things I cannot change, 

the courage to change the things I can,

and the wisdom to know the difference.

AUM

Everything is burning, burning away

and you, you, I see that match you are holding

but it isn't you and it isn't a match

because every thing is burning, burning away.

We are burning too, you and me, for we,

we were and are and shall be anything and any thing;

we were and are and shall be the fire that burns

and the thing which it burns.

AUM

If I showed you the river,

would you know it was time?

If you stood in the boat and rowed forever

would you know you were still next to me on the shore?

I tried, I tried to teach you, tried to show you how.

Damyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.

But all you heard was the thunder.

"He discerns that 'Birth is depleted, the holy life fulfilled, the task done. There is nothing further for this world.'" That is what the Blessed One said.

No saccharin shantih here. It is escaping the flames.

The Last Five Years (Minus One and a Half)

I should probably refrain from listening to musicals which encapsulate too perfectly my feelings. It doesn't even make me feel better about myself. I look at the relationship it depicts, I recognize the man as me and the woman as her; neither of them are people I particularly like, but I love them both. The end of their marriage is simultaneously inevitable and heartbreaking.

Aristotle would say it's a tragedy, but then again, Aristotle didn't know shit about love.

Cathy: I will not be the girl/who gets asked how it feels/to be trotting along/at the genius's heels
Jamie: If I did't believe in you/I'd never have loved you/at all.