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Disillusioned
Saturday, August 24, 2013 at 10:09 PM
Here's a confession; I have always been terrified of people who can give me more than what I have right now. I am terrified of people who could make me think twice. I am terrified of people who make me doubt everything that I live for. I am terrified of people who challenge my virtues and principles. I am terrified of people who bewilder me. I am terrified of people who stir up something inside me I thought wasn't asleep to begin with. I am terrified of people who linger in my thoughts more than they ought to.
I guess I am terrified of you. |
“In most books, the I, or first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference. We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking. I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience. Moreover, I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what he has heard of other men's lives; some such account as he would send to his kindred from a distant land; for if he has lived sincerely, it must have been in a distant land to me. Perhaps these pages are more particularly addressed to poor students. As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them. I trust that none will stretch the seams in putting on the coat, for it may do good service to him whom it fits.”
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