Lived doubles

There’s a routine we all follow, there’s a path we take strolls on which millions have travelled on.

I see young men of all races fight for their manhood in taking responsibilities with only a few who fall off their duties. I see young women of all sorts working their way up fighting for an equality which hasn’t been promised. These actions of young men and women have been perceived throughout thousands of years ago. We claim to be different when society knows very well we are all the same individuals travelling similar paths at different times, races and different parts of the world.

Bench watching we witness the exact same actions with different faces, we work trying to support our families, we sweat in order to keep loved ones smiling and we break rules fighting for equality. Hasn’t that been done before and hasn’t this been written before by a different writer who thought they were the first?

We are change or is ‘time’ change? Do we really stop the fight or does the fight fade? Is there equality or is there still division amongst race, gender and religion? Do we paint new paintings or do we revise our grandparents’ art?

Leaving a legacy might be the only way we can live forever, leaving a legacy not for society but for our children and their children’s children. Having the audacity to sacrifice our time in order for whoever follows our footsteps write their happiness instead of writing their pain like we did.

Men from the past are the men in the present.

Women from the past are the women in the present.

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