A hard pill to swallow

The realisation that you're asking for too much is painful to digest.

We have been lead to understand that there is a utopia in which lives a man bearing qualities of a charismatic gentleman.
Actually, that is rarely on the menu.

We are brainwashed by a 2D world that leaves our hearts polluted as we face the three-dimensional reality where, when our table is laid, it doesn't look as appetising as we once imagined.

It is crucial that we uphold our values and maintain our high expectations rather than trivialising them and settling for the next best thing - or the biggest tosser on the planet.
Failing this would mean neglecting ourselves.
We need to keep our nails strong. Who knows when we'll next have to fight our way out?

Excessive time spent concerned with others and their motives.

Knowing enough is unachievable. Understanding enough is incomprehensible.

In a storm, we're living in the flicker of a lightning bolt. When the storm passes, that split second is the only light we can shine on the situation and we're left blinded by it.

So we're caught in the next storm, back where we started: behind a grey cloud of fog.