~Eric~

**learn from yesterday... live for today... hope for tomorrow... the important thing is not to stop questioning**
**imagination is more important than knowledge... knowledge is limited... imagination encircles the world**
**the most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious... it is the source of all true art and science**
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~/~my name's eric, most of my friends call me E and i'm a musician at heart... i absolutely cherish music and the audible elation it brings me... i play the drums and guitar and have a general familiarity with all things musical... i am a soft-spoken, eccentric, introverted, awkwardly off the wall geek who always thinks outside the "everyday conventionally routine conformist" box... although i'm shy, i do love control and will speak my mind when i believe it is necessary... i'm bothered easily by failure in both others and myself... so if i stumble upon a problem i'm inclined to focus in on all aspects of that quandary until i'm able to solve it as swiftly and decisively as i possibly can... i also have a tendency to be stubborn... i often refuse to argue with people, usually... i would rather just ignore them altogether even though sometimes i know i shouldn't... i love to think and imagine while smothering myself with the sound of music... i drive around often, sometimes just to reflect upon the big picture and tune in to music... music keeps me grounded but it also allows me to cope with the monotony of life and to escape the albatross... most people think i'm crazy and i wouldn't disagree... at times there's an opulence of thought, introspection, music and reverie flooding my cerebrum that every so often even i think i should be committed... haha... but i'm very adept at explaining things to others, at anticipating certain situations and predicting sequences and patterns which is why people trust my instincts and can turn to me for direction... i can be lazy sometimes, especially when you have those somber or trite and uneventful days where you either wanna sleep it all away or somehow physically hasten time... i choose to pass those moments artistically and constructively by reading or writing, creating music, maybe playing some video games or watching a movie... your worst days are usually the best motivation to allow your creativity to flourish... well overall i would say that i'm a gentle, caring nerd who is at sometimes a little dorky, even a bit weird with a smidgen of crazy thrown in for good measure but still a good friend and listener... i'm just a fun and funny person to be around~/~
||AIM - DEEM1ER||
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Man down
This hardened shell is broken
My fate is bound to what I’ve done
Regrets - I shuffle down the hallway
Precious time - It’s all gone overboard
Here is your calm down pill
I’ll never be the same – It’ll never be the same
With eyes open - My body’s floating down the river
This life - Why have I confined you for?
It’s all inside – It’s all in silence
And when the raven gets its way
A million thoughts are swept away
And then you leave it all
Leave it all behind
And maybe next time we’ll meet again
And maybe I’ll be less of a bitter man
When I feel more
I refuse to pay the ferryman – I’m so attached to my temple
He has to burn it down to get me
Ebony demon, shriek all you want - I am not tagging along
The shade, the burning blackness - It is my protector
Fear before the fall - I can’t grasp it all
But at least I’m trying
A light, a smoldering cinder
Getting colder, ashen
And letting all this go
I’m not letting go
I’m not really done here
I won’t let go
Life’s too short to be wrong
And maybe next time we’ll meet again
And maybe I’ll be less of a bitter man
And if I could do it all over again
I’d be the same man all over again
When I feel more
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