His idea of the human condition is still somewhat the same as the existential which can be seen rather clearly this excerpt from his poem The Earth God: " To raise man from secret darkness Yet keep his roots clinging to the earth To give him thirst for life, and make death his cupbearer; To endow him with love that waxeth with pain, And exalts with desire, and increases with longing, And fadeth away with the first embrace To girdle his nights with dreams of higher days and his nights And yet confine his days and his nights"[7] In this passage Gibran shows what he feel the predic...

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Taking the first steps to bring the dream into a reality is the hardest part. ... The previous job I had was higher management and towards the end of that six year position, I grew tired of the nights of wondering if the doing the shuffle to make sense of the work I was doing was right for me and started to question how fulfilling it was for me. ... I even looked into being a paralegal, for at one point, I wanted to become a lawyer, but that dream soon fizzled when I did research and attended classes where my instructor bluntly stated that the program was not for someone with a life or family,...

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Their minds went in to a state called depersonalization; everything appeared unreal like in a dream. Second, prisoners made good use of their freedom they ate and ate as much as they could for hours, even at nights. ...

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In a way he refers to it as an allusion or a dream he wanted to be but really knowing he wasn't there. ... If he could just turn back the hands of time I'm sure he would no longer be a bad kid, he would most likely be playing chess three nights after school was out. ...

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