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Breakout. . .

When explanations make no sense
When every answer's wrong
You're fighting with lost confidence
All expectations gone
The time has come to make or break 
Move on, don't hesitate
Breakout

Have you reached your breaking point? Is it time for you to breakout?
You can be involved in situations or scenarios where it doesn't matter what explanations may be offered, whatever kind of rationale is put forward - it may make sense to you, but not to anyone else.  What is the right explanation for anything these days?  The last thing you want to do is have an argument with someone and lose your confidence in mid fight, not because their points make more sense than yours, they're just louder at speaking up, I mean, they're practically shouting really.  That's all it is.  Just volume.  Lots of it.  Whether you can have any expectations that are reasonable or not - you suddenly find that they disappear.  Maybe things weren't quite what they seemed in the beginning.  Now it's time to make or break. 

Don't stop to ask
Now you've found a break to make it last
You've got to find a way
Say what you want to say
Breakout

Why do we restrict ourselves from asking the hard questions?  We live in a world where unless you're on the move, you're not really going anywhere - and technically that is true, because you'd just be in the same space.  I guess it comes down to knowing who to trust and who do we stop to ask for advice, for support, for answers that we might not even be willing to really seek, let alone really hear.  What would it take for you to have a break that would last?  What are we trying to make last?  Connections with people that are tenuous at best, barely able to keep yourself together, and now you have to carry someone else too?  Do we finally want a break from our defeatist attitude that threatens to darken our doorstep each time we try to leave the house? 

When situations never change 
Tomorrow looks unsure
Don't leave your destiny to chance
What are you waiting for?
The time has come to make or break
Breakout

It can easy to get stuck in a rut and just believe that nothing changes - particularly when you want them to change.  Depending on what life experiences you have had, how you have responded to them, they have either shaped you to be able to respond in your best interests or result in self sabotage.  I have had people ask me often, where do you see yourself in five years time?  When I was younger I could answer this with certainty and perhaps with youthful naivety that has since hardened over time.  I am learning to live in faith and to go where I am called, rather than where I think I would like to go.  We don't have to leave our destiny to chance, but we shouldn't be planning it to death either.  We never really know what we are waiting for until we see it or feel it.  We just need to be more open to allowing those opportunities and moments entertain us and bring us joy.


Don't stop to ask
Now you've found a break to make it last
You've got to find a way
Say what you want to say
Breakout

The best times to break is when they suddenly creep on you and before you know it, you're out.  Being able to make those moments last mean the most when you just enjoy it and you're able to park everything else to the side - until you have to deal with the reality again.  The same can be said for the rat race that we reluctantly must participate in to meet the means to our own individual ends.  I have found that breaks have lasted the best and been at its most enjoyable when they have not been forced, when they have naturally transpired on their own without any planning.  Sometimes you can't plan for the best moments of your life.  The conditions and series of events that lead to serendipitous moments are only known when you are in them. 

Some people stop at nothing
If you're searching for something 
Lay down the law, shout out for more
Breakout and shout day in and day out
Breakout

How do you avoid regret?  Try to live a life that leaves no room for error, continually playing it safe and never willing to risk anything at all?  What will people stop at nothing to do?  Get ahead in life?  What areas come to mind for you?  What drives people to stop at nothing?  If you don't know when to stop at nothing, how will you know how to stop when it's everything?  Do we get little lessons that help us to learn to take things one at a time?  But life isn't like that.  Everything bombards you all at once.  We all have things and people that we seek.  That we will never stop searching for.  Whether it is something that is inexplicable, we can never really tell when we are faced with nothing.  Whose laws do you follow?  Which laws resonate more strongly for you than others?  Will we know?

Don't stop to ask
Now you've found a break to make it last
You've got to find a way
Say what you want to say
Breakout

I hope that whatever you are going through in your life, that you find the chance to have a break.  Take a step back and assess what is going on; what you want to be doing, where you want to be heading but also bearing in mind to be kind to yourself at the same time.  It is important to know when to take the break.  If you are surrounded by smart people they should know you well enough to figure out when you need to have a break and to have a time out from the pressures, obligations and duties that take up your life.  Take the opportunity to say what you want to say.  If the occasion doesn't arise and the conditions just aren't right, there is no need to rush it.  Things have a way of resolving themselves and sometimes they may not be perfect resolutions - just imperfect solutions.  Just need to remember, once in a while, it's ok to breakout. . . 

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