[ ON HOLD, FOR THE TIME BEING] "How do you explain it to someone that you hate them, solely because you cannot stop thinking about them?" '''''''''°'°'°'''''''' For Raven Adams, fighting and resilience- veiled in the silhouette of normalcy, came with no surprises. For Raven Adams, normal was changing towns when things got hard. For Raven, stability was a lie, and the promise of a home that she only experienced by flicking the pages of worn out books. When you have been alone all your life, you do not understand the concept of loneliness. Raven thrived in solidarity, embraced darkness and allowed her thorns to shelter her. And Damian Knight? She could care less about him. He was beautiful when his eyes smiled, and cared for her, always seemed to be around her, wherever she looked. He was there. He was always there. And she hated it. and she hated that she felt so lost. Damian Knight didn't know what the concept of saving one was. People weren't sculptures, and hearts weren't the substitute for tools. That's what he thought, until he beheld Raven, a chaos in her he was strangely familiar with. A promise, he was willing to show her how to live and not survive just another day. She showed him a tenderness that she kept hidden within herself, gave him a chance to feel the enigma that was love. And in return, he showed the girl with those cold eyes and bruised knuckles that perhaps sometimes, being lost was the only way to being found. --- #80 in poetry. (8/5/2021) #11 in mental health awareness. #14 in Dark Academia. #13 in melancholy. (21/5/2021) #72 in poem. #19 in lost soul. #15 in heartbreak. (24/8/2021)

The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise that was written during the 16th century BC by Sun Tzu. Composed of 13 chapter, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare, it has long to been praised as the definitive work on military strategies and tactics of its time. The Art of War is one of the oldest books on military strategy in the world. It is the first and one of the most successful works on strategy and has had a huge influence on Easters and Western military thinking, business tactics, and beyond. Sun Tzu was the first to recognize the importance of positioning in strategy and that position is affected both by objective conditions in the physical environment and the subjective opinions of competitive actors in that environment. He taught that strategy was not planning in the sense of working through a to- do list, but rather that it requires quick and appropriate responses to changing condition. Planning works in a controlled environment , but in a competitive environment,