<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=438398" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Just The Way It Is</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'What makes a town, <br>Some would call...small? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The minds of the people.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Well...<br>If that is known, <br>Why do they continue to choose<br>To prove their ignorance? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Maybe they are not doing that for you.<br>You see the others? <br>They are doing that with them too! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And since you are observing this, <br>To bring it to my attention...<br>Perhaps if you do not mention it again, <br>No one will know that you are the one out of place.<br>The one who criticizes their lives and the pace.<br>Look around...<br>See the blank look on their faces? <br>An absence of thinking, <br>Connecting together the process of thoughts! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do you think what they and I have chosen to do...<br>Will make a difference to the very few, <br>Who have chosen to live peacefully...<br>Amongst those who have been blinded, <br>By a lack of identity? <br>When invited to a bar-be-cue, <br>The best thing to do...<br>Especially if you accept, <br>Is not to profess to be a vegetarian! <br>Or begin to sermonize about the eating of cows...<br>And the drinking of milk.<br>Who do you 'think' would be considered the fool? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So maybe they are not out to prove anything...<br>To you or to me or to anyone else! <br>That's just the way it is here! <br>Just like some places have Palm Trees.<br>And here you will find Maple and Pine! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now...<br>If you chose to move away from all of this.<br>My guess is that no one here would mind...<br>Or notice.<br>That's just the way it is, <br>Here!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+S.+Pertillar">Lawrence S. Pertillar</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=438398" data-title="Just The Way It Is de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="'What makes a town, Some would call...small? ' The minds of the people. 'Well... If that is known, Why do they continue to choose To prove their ignorance? ' Maybe they are not doing that for you. You see the others? They are doing that with..."></div> </div> </div>

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