How do you watch something or someone slowly die? How do you decide when to throw a piece of wrapper from a foreign country that holds no meaning to anyone except yourself? How do you know when is the right time to end one's suffering knowing fully that your own suffering will continue for a long time? Do you do it with the knowledge that ( Read more... )

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Let's stroll down to the sea.
I'll come to my senses there and you'll come to me.

Occasionally, without rhyme or reason, a screaming begins in my head. I know not the source of this screaming but it feels familiar and unrecognisable at the same time. Along with it comes the image of a face i do not know with his mouth wide open as if in the act of screaming. The source of the screaming does not come from this gaping mouth but it ( Read more... )

I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly ( Read more... )

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So many things have changed.
Yet so many remain the same.
10 years on.

“If love isn’t the effort you put in, then what is it?”

These days it’s difficult for me to concentrate on any given task.
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“Thank god every morning when you wake up that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best will breed in you temperance, self-control, diligence, strength of will, cheerfulness, content, and a hundred other virtues which the idle will never know.”

“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”