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Bigdan Nigeria
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Hi Laseee... I Just Wrote Rubbish.
<p> The fish that learned to climb trees eventually forgot how to drown.</p><p><br/></p><p>Nobody noticed.</p><p><br/></p><p>The birds were too busy attending swimming classes, while the monkeys held annual conferences on the importance of flying straight.</p><p><br/></p><p>Meanwhile, a snail won a race against time simply by refusing to wear a watch.</p><p><br/></p><p>Society called him lazy.</p><p><br/></p><p>History called him patient.</p><p><br/></p><p>The clock called him unreachable.</p><p><br/></p><p>Somewhere in the distance, a man spent twenty years looking for himself only to discover he had been using the wrong name for his thoughts.</p><p><br/></p><p>He celebrated by buying a mirror and avoiding it.</p><p><br/></p><p>The mirror understood.</p><p><br/></p><p>Mirrors have always understood.</p><p><br/></p><p>They spend their entire lives showing people everything except what is behind them.</p><p><br/></p><p>Which is why a shadow is often wiser than a reflection.</p><p><br/></p><p>A shadow knows where the light came from.</p><p><br/></p><p>A reflection only knows where it landed.</p><p><br/></p><p>The tree outside my window once told the wind, "You are moving too fast."</p><p><br/></p><p>The wind replied, "You are standing too still."</p><p><br/></p><p>Neither was wrong.</p><p><br/></p><p>Yet both envied each other.</p><p><br/></p><p>That is the tragedy of existence:</p><p><br/></p><p>Rivers dream of becoming mountains.</p><p><br/></p><p>Mountains dream of becoming clouds.</p><p><br/></p><p>Clouds dream of becoming rain.</p><p><br/></p><p>And rain spends its entire life trying to return to the river.</p><p><br/></p><p>Most people call this the water cycle.</p><p><br/></p><p>Philosophers call it purpose.</p><p><br/></p><p>Lovers call it destiny.</p><p><br/></p><p>Accountants call it recurring transactions.</p><p><br/></p><p>The truth is probably somewhere in between.</p><p><br/></p><p>Here's a creative piece of "rubbish wisdom" nonsensical on the surface, yet strangely meaningful when you sit with it:</p><p><br/></p><p>The fish that learned to climb trees eventually forgot how to drown.</p><p><br/></p><p>Nobody noticed.</p><p><br/></p><p>The birds were too busy attending swimming classes, while the monkeys held annual conferences on the importance of flying straight.</p><p><br/></p><p>Meanwhile, a snail won a race against time simply by refusing to wear a watch.</p><p><br/></p><p>Society called him lazy.</p><p><br/></p><p>History called him patient.</p><p><br/></p><p>The clock called him unreachable.</p><p><br/></p><p> Somewhere in the distance, a man spent twenty years looking for himself only to discover he had been using the wrong name for his thoughts.</p><p><br/></p><p> He celebrated by buying a mirror and avoiding it.</p><p><br/></p><p>The mirror understood.</p><p><br/></p><p> Mirrors have always understood.</p><p><br/></p><p> They spend their entire lives showing people everything except what is behind them.</p><p><br/></p><p>Which is why a shadow is often wiser than a reflection.</p><p><br/></p><p> A shadow knows where the light came from.</p><p><br/></p><p>A reflection only knows where it landed.</p><p><br/></p><p>The tree outside my window once told the wind, "You are moving too fast."</p><p><br/></p><p>The wind replied, "You are standing too still."</p><p><br/></p><p>Neither was wrong.</p><p><br/></p><p>Yet both envied each other.</p><p><br/></p><p> That is the tragedy of existence:</p><p><br/></p><p>Rivers dream of becoming mountains.</p><p><br/></p><p>Mountains dream of becoming clouds.</p><p><br/></p><p> Clouds dream of becoming rain.</p><p><br/></p><p>And rain spends its entire life trying to return to the river.</p><p><br/></p><p>Most people call this the water cycle.</p><p><br/></p><p> Philosophers call it purpose.</p><p><br/></p><p>Lovers call it destiny.</p><p><br/></p><p>Accountants call it recurring transactions.</p><p><br/></p><p>The truth is probably somewhere in between.</p><p><br/></p><p>If there is one lesson in all of this, it is simple:</p><p><br/></p><p>Never ask a compass for directions if it has fallen in love with a destination.</p><p><br/></p><p>And never trust a staircase that claims to be going places.</p><p><br/></p><p>It has been standing in the same spot its entire life.</p><p><br/></p><p>The best nonsense doesn't ignore logic—it hides it in absurdity. The reader laughs first, then realizes the rubbish has been talking about life all along.</p><p>If there is one lesson in all of this, it is simple:</p><p><br/></p><p>Never ask a compass for directions if it has fallen in love with a destination.</p><p><br/></p><p>And never trust a staircase that claims to be going places.</p><p><br/></p><p>It has been standing in the same spot its entire life.</p><p><br/></p><p>The best nonsense doesn't ignore logic - it hides it in absurdity. The reader laughs first, then realizes the rubbish has been talking about life all along.</p><p><br/></p>

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