The Weight Of Commonsense

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This writing is exploring the tension between common sense and the absurdity of lack of it. A riddle wrapped in poetry hoping the reader think about how sometimes, having too much logic can make it harder to accept the irrational aspects of life. And yet, those who lack common sense seem to navigate nonsense with ease.

The lack of common sense makes nonsense easy, things that should make sense, slip through, unchallenged. Yet common sense itself makes the absurd unbearable, forcing logic upon the illogical, struggling to grasp the uncommon. To live without it is to drift through chaos, unbothered by contradiction. To live with it is to wrestle with reason, forever questioning the senseless.

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