unedited riffing take two

If you told me that destiny was real. That everything that would ever happen was predetermined. You know what I would do differently? Nothing. Why should I? Who cares that you were meant to read this? You have, and now it is over. Destiny doesn't work on my scale. If my outcomes are predetermined for all I care, I am in full control. 

shalev smokler

NY

14 years old

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