Apocalypse to Genesis

Black_Bird said:

What, in your life time, changed your world the most. How did it change for the better? How did it change for the worse? How did it change you?

What, in your life time, changed you the most? Again, how did you change for the better? How did you change for the worse? How did it change the world around you?

Now I want you to concider those two changes as being Apocalypse and your life before those changes, Genesis. Now rewrite your the story of your life, event by event, *starting* with the events of your personal Apocalypse, and ending with the events of Genesis.

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AzureAngel said:

I think this could be two threads, the way I'm reading it.

Way 1 - Think back when your world changed the most. What happened? How was life different before and after?

Way 2 - Same as above, but introspective... when YOU changed the most.

Maybe bust it into just the latter, or both...?

I could be reading this wrong.

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RhumbRunner13 said:

Blackbird be between that philosophical drunk and that "hey you mofuks what de sheets dis.." drunk

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freescorfr said:

Nice one B_B. Too early for me to post, but I wish I'd really done this as young as you
"Then I broke away from the expectations of others; I was not willing to be anyone else but myself."

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Black_Bird said:

What, in your life time, changed your world the most. How did it change for the better? How did it change for the worse? How did it change you?

What, in your life time, changed you the most? Again, how did you change for the better? How did you change for the worse? How did it change the world around you?

Now I want you to concider those two changes as being Apocalypse and your life before those changes, Genesis. Now rewrite your the story of your life, event by event, *starting* with the events of your personal Apocalypse, and ending with the events of Genesis.

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Black_Bird said:

Mine:

I began to realize the importance and power of human relationships when she left me. It tore me apart, but I now knew human connection and became much wiser because of it. I saw humans needed one another in ways that I never drempt.

Inbetween us grew a web of communication, that touched each of us and allowed each to speak without fear. All parts of humanity quickly began to tap into the web, feeding off the information there in.

There was a man who I thought was my companion. He would humiliate me and judge me. I found others who would not judge. The web expanded.

And I began learning about myself, expanding my vision in all directions. I learned what my will is, I learned what my ideals are, I learned secrets of being and becoming. These were the arts of the soul; rituals of fire, prayers of blood.

And I was quite. I learned from the quite. That which was sexual was beyond me, so I waited and learned.

Then I broke away from the expectations of others; I was not willing to be anyone else but myself. I rebelled through poetry, through ideas and through words. I wanted to be free to express myself to others; I wanted to be a part of the web of humanity.

After that, there was a time when I wasn't in control at all. I no longer knew who I was, and was faced with daily questions of self worth brought on by conflict after conflict. I was tired. I had tried to make peace among them, but they would not be still.

So I became innocent, and did not know of these problems. And then I was born.

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RhumbRunner13 said:

You aren't drunk on booze, you're drunk on sorrow!

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Black_Bird said:

What, in your life time, changed your world the most. How did it change for the better? How did it change for the worse? How did it change you?

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