Gary Jules - Mad World

All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
Their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow
And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very
Mad World
Mad world
Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday
And I feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson
Look right through me, look right through me
And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very
Mad World
Mad World
Enlarging your world
Mad World. 

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I've now accepted that I'm going through my mid-life crisis. I question the most basic and fundamental assumptions, and marvel at the hypocrite I've become and the level of duplicity I'd begun to endorse. This is NOT who I wanted to be, not the values I want to pass on to the kids I might have. Something's certainly rattling the cage I've built around myself and I believe I know what it is - my conscience.

I just know that there awaits a whole new level of peace at the end of this stretch. But as always, I remain Yours Impatiently.

P.S. - This video gets to me even today. And the lesson in it is one very simple to comprehend. Now to apply it...