A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action. - Alanis Morissette

Do you derive joy when someone else succeeds?
Do you not play dirty when engaged in competition?
Do you have a big intellectual capacity,
But know that it alone does not equate to wisdom?
Do you see everything as an illusion,
But enjoy it even though you are not of it?
Are you both masculine and feminine, politically aware, and don't believe in capital punishment? These are 21 things that I want in a lover,
Not necessarily needs but qualities that I prefer.

How can you just throw words around?
Like grieve and heal and mourn
I feel fine we may not have been born
As awake as you were
It was much harder in those days
We had paper routes uphill both ways
We went from school to a job to a wife
To instant parenthood.

I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.