{"id":46340,"date":"2022-02-21T09:59:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T09:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/?p=46340"},"modified":"2022-02-21T09:59:13","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T09:59:13","slug":"never-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nieuw.marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/2022\/02\/21\/never-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Never wrong."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sometimes I hear myself talk or read my writings, and I think<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ugh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s hopeful and bright and smart and happy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maybe it\u2019s even spiritual and poetic and philosophical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But is it life?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is it real, and true?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Am I avoiding stuff, running away from things?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What about<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Poverty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Breakups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hatred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sadness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What about darkness?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then I realize:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maybe I am just here to bring some light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To be optimistic for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To tell stories that are hopeful and bright and poetic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To be something you can hang on to in the middle of the death and the breakup and the sadness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maybe I don\u2019t have to cover it all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maybe I don\u2019t have to be perfectly real or realistic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And maybe, I don\u2019t know, maybe I am just fucking scared of what is out there, of what is in me, and this is my way to deal with that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maybe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But there\u2019s one thing I DO know:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m expressing life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m an expression of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And that can never be wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Photo by @reyslafisher, for Unsplash)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I hear myself talk or read my writings, and I think Ugh. It\u2019s hopeful and bright and smart and happy. Maybe it\u2019s even spiritual and poetic and philosophical. But is it life? Is it real, and true? Am I avoiding stuff, running away from things? What about Death. Cancer. Poverty. Breakups. Violence. Hatred. Sadness. 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