We're all human, and we ALL have flaws.
One of the best ways to get inside someone’s head and really get to know them is through their writing. More often than not, authors use writing as a coping mechanism—pouring out all of their thoughts and ideas and feelings onto paper to try and make sense of it all (even when it seems totally hopeless).
Instagram poet Jarod Wabick is no stranger to this practice.
To be honest, being human really sucks sometimes. We’re constantly trying to figure it all out, make the best of the worst situations, and — a lot of the time — just trying to make it through the day.
But, each and every one of us is an important piece to the puzzle that is this world.
Throughout the majority of Jarod Wabick’s poems, you’ll find the themes of humanity, accepting yourself, and loving others as they are. The use of metaphors and imagery will suck you in and make you believe that he’s talking about YOU.
He does an incredible job of keeping a good balance of optimistic, yet realistic points of view, along with conveying how a lot of people often feel, but are unable to put into words.
So, why don’t you let him tell you how you REALLY feel and read through these 20 poems that are sure to make you think.
On being who you want to be.
"With any luck we'll never find the things that we are looking for and, instead we become them."
— Jarod Wabick
On being optimistic and making things happen.
"Bury a hook into that light at the end of the tunnel and pull."
— Jarod Wabick
On what makes us human.
"Hell is had by all. Some prettier than others. Some uglier than others. And in the end we're more human than we started."
— Jarod Wabick
On the fire that burns in all of us.
"Stop putting out the fires inside of you because you're scared of being burned -- let them run absolutely wild."
— Jarod Wabick
On who we are now, and who we have always been.
"Problem is, the world didn't just forget who they are, but forgot what they are. What they are to each other. What they are to the reachin' trees and the sad heavy clouds. Forgot what they are to the animals, to the damned and the saintly, but mostly forgot what they are to themselves."
— Jarod Wabick
On judging a book by its cover, rather than what's between the pages.
"We're angry, it seems, because the lion's share of our beauty is on the inside, past the skin, in the caves and crevices where most never bother to look."
— Jarod Wabick
On trying to become the YOU that you want to be.
"Every shower was an attempt to wash away a layer or two of myself. And as the water grew hotter, my hopes grew stronger. But nothing ever changed. Even after the third or fourth shower in a day. So I was never really sure what swirled down the drain when I finally turned the water off."
— Jarod Wabick
On discovering who you are.
"The life I lived inside my head differed, vastly, in content and structure from the one that I lived outside of it. And I was never quite sure which one was driving me more mad."
— Jarod Wabick
On the overwhelming need for expression.
"If the words don't get out, they get comfortable and build cities inside me, then they riot and burn the whole goddamn thing to the ground."
— Jarod Wabick
On the grey areas in life.
"There's a terribly fine line between selfishness and self-preservation -- the same way there's a fine line between being human and humane -- and it's this line that's destroying us."
— Jarod Wabick
On what really keeps us grounded.
"We mistakenly believed that gravity still existed when it was really just these lead hearts and heavy thoughts that pulled us into the dirt."
— Jarod Wabick
On the demons we must face.
"I'd been up enough nights to know it was easier to dance with your ghosts than to fight them."
— Jarod Wabick
On loving the flaws of our lives.
"The scary part wasn't realizing that we were monsters -- it was realizing that we loved every minute of it."
— Jarod Wabick
On the beauty of vulnerability.
"People seemed most beautiful to me when their walls turned to drapes and fell to the floor, when their heads tilt ever so slightly to the side and they muscle a smile, and their labored lives come spilling out the corners of their mouths."
— Jarod Wabick
On our place on this Earth.
"If it could I'm sure the world would shake us off like a wet dog."
— Jarod Wabick
On the difference between good and bad.
"We were all monsters of some sort. Some of us just had softer claws than others."
— Jarod Wabick
On our relation to the animal world.
"We're just animals in button downs."
— Jarod Wabick
On society's norm.
"All at once it seemed that everyone had all the guts in the world and none at all."
— Jarod Wabick
On putting more weight on what's inside.
"You have to stop looking for beauty with your eyes. It's the only goddamn sense that doesn't have any."
— Jarod Wabick
On getting to the heart of humanity.
"Soul isn't found on the skin. You have to gut someone open with words, with compassion, with truth, then curl up inside for awhile to find soul."
— Jarod Wabick
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