Learn To Downsize
Embrace Humility: Ambivalent Roads' Lesson in DownsizingLyrics
You'd want to become the lord of this corner
Aspiring to dominate a specific domain or niche.
You'd want to start your career as a little landowner
Desiring to embark on a career as a small-scale property owner.
But you strive for the role, you're just not made
Struggling to fit into the desired role, realizing it may not be a natural fit.
For this thing, you're way too far
Acknowledging that the desired position is beyond reach or capability.
Learn to downsize
Emphasizing the need to learn the skill of downsizing or simplifying.
Accept the fact the world is too big for you
Recognizing the vastness of the world and understanding personal limitations.
Accept the fact you can't have more than an inch of the ground
Accepting the limited influence one can have, symbolized by "an inch of the ground."
You stand on, the rest of the world is going
Realizing that while standing firm, the world continues on its own path.
Through its route, you don't have to follow
Choosing not to blindly follow the world's trajectory but to carve one's own path.
Learn to downsize
Reiterating the importance of learning to downsize and simplify.
Learn to downsize
Repeating the message of the necessity to downsize for emphasis.
And one day you'll learn to accept
Highlighting that through downsizing, one can eventually find acceptance.
Your existence a little more
Encouraging acceptance of one's existence in a more humble and modest manner.
You'd want to become the lord of this corner
Reiteration of the desire to dominate a specific area.
You'd want to start your career as a little landowner
Expressing the aspiration to begin a career as a small landowner once again.
But you strive for the role, you're just not made
Acknowledging the mismatch between the aspiration and personal suitability.
For this thing, you're way too far
Reiterating the incompatibility with the desired role due to distance or capability.
Learn to downsize
Restating the essential message of learning to downsize as a key lesson.
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