I emerge like a tree from a dirty seed;

 

You are meant for greatness  Your trails create myths and stories Don't slow down Don't off-road When the terrain gets slippery Your shoe spikes will grow with it When slithering leeches get too close You will know them by their stains When your falls push you down the valleys Remember  Your leaps take over the mountains

I urge you to be gently  and respectfully dangerous  to the status quo for they will benefit mightily from being confronted  by the adventure  of your refusal to conform. If you think average means safe,  you’re not paying very much attention. I’ve found that I’m happiest  when I fit in with the weird ones. Those different,  sweet and savage souls  who have chosen to be  unique notes in the song of life who follow some  silent and invisible signal known only to them not the same constrained  monotony of mangled chords  which the suppression of spirit strangles out quietly  in a sea of manipulative  meetings and  loosened neckties  denoting faux freedom these are costumes  meant to hold up customs  and long dead antiquities  such as retirement centralized control  and treating people  as fodder in the decaying  machine of manufactured needs;  customers consumed  in the ...