{"id":1119,"date":"2013-10-10T12:58:32","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T17:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2013-10-10T13:02:11","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T18:02:11","slug":"poem-disillusionment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/10\/poem-disillusionment\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Disillusionment"},"content":{"rendered":"

You say that you’re disillusioned like it’s a bad thing<\/span><\/p>\n

My whole life I’ve heard people talk about being disillusioned in one way or another.\u00a0 Not once have I heard this with anything but a negative connotation.\u00a0 This one line poem alludes to another way.\u00a0 Some years ago, it dawned on me that losing your illusions is a great thing.\u00a0 Disillusionment may, in fact, be one of the grandest goals in life.\u00a0 What greater meaning can be attained than aligning one’s life with reality, as it is, not as we happen to think it is.\u00a0 And how can this happen except by letting go of our illusions?\u00a0 I would like to see humanity reclaim the term disillusionment.\u00a0 Will you join me in claiming an attitude of gratitude when our illusions run into reality and those illusions lose handedly?\u00a0 Let’s rejoice at this inescapable process of disillusionment on the way to enlightenment and more truthful living.\u00a0 Alas, hope springs eternal, even in the face of determined cynicism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You say that you’re disillusioned like it’s a bad thing My whole life I’ve heard people talk about being disillusioned in one way or another.\u00a0 Not once have I heard this with anything but a negative connotation.\u00a0 This one line … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[353,458,135,555,255,388,305,614,359,486,100,658,94,601,421],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-political-and-philosophical-musings","tag-attitude","tag-cynicism","tag-disillusionment","tag-enlightenment","tag-gratitude","tag-hope","tag-humanity","tag-illusions","tag-life","tag-meaning","tag-one-line-poems","tag-poems","tag-poetry","tag-reality","tag-truth"],"yoast_head":"\nPOEM: Disillusionment | Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings | Top Pun's Poetry, Funny Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show! 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