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The Gloriousness of Giving Up

Elizabeth Harper

When you’ve given up the striving
to be something you’re not.
When you’re too old to change,
and at this point, you don’t even want to.

When you’re content with who you are,
where you are, and you don’t care if you die tomorrow.
Because, hey, you had a pretty good run,
and at least you can still wipe your own ass.

You’ve done enough.
Not as much as some other people.
But hey, you’re not someone else.
You’re you. And you had your part to play.

You had your share of friends and love affairs.
Your share of successes and failures.
And even failures contribute
to the general knowledge and general good.

Who were you trying to be anyway?
You can’t even stand that guy.
With his perfectly stiff hair, perfunctory girlfriend,
and inexplicably stiff and hard and black
American Express Card.

 
give it up let it go
give it up let it go

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