I've never understood and probably never will, how such a beautiful, wonderful thing can kill, or how it can hurt and hate, how it can dissipate, the most  complex piece of art, is none other than the human heart.

I don't know anymore than this ( Read more... )

I used to collect rocks. The rock tumbler machine (put rocks from the ground in and add soe active ingredient magic pouch, let it spin in it for what feels like a year and beautiful, colourful, smooth stones come out) was one of my favorite things. I had quarts, fools gold (lots of fools gold), and a million others with things I can't even remember ( Read more... )

In the night i see the light
hides in the sun
days hide reality
lies to your face
eyes to eyes
night
look away
truth spills from lips
cold and harsh
ice breaking glass
smooth now jaged
rain falls
drips in the sand
waves crashing in
washes away footprints
left by
you.

So here I sit in my kitchen. Nobody else here, no music playing or TV for background noise. Just silence and the ticking clock. I don't feel sad, I don't feel happy, I feel like I'm sitting in silence. I am. The ticking of the clock is the only way I'm even aware that time is passing. I assume it's passing. It ticks and ticks and I sit and sit and ( Read more... )

Breathe the brisk cold air ( Read more... )

I don't remember when I started loosing faith in humanity, but that's where I've found myself stuck right now. I'm a compassionate person and really can't help but to be that way... but honestly I wish I wasn't. I know some very amazing people- a good number of them are my friends. But really I look at the world and I just want to know what the ( Read more... )

do things happen for a reason? maybe the reason is simply that you think them. you look for things to mean something else. so then, when something does happen that's outside of your control, you make it relate to what you want it to mean ( Read more... )

"Sometimes rescue comes to you. It just shows up, and you do nothing. Maybe you deserve it, maybe you don’t. But be ready, when it comes, to decide if you will take the outstretched hand and let it pull you ashore."

The lighthouse had guided me so close to harbor, but I was still terrified to actually go ashore. So long in the water makes you aware ( Read more... )

are such shit. if you have 100 points towards labs and 5 labs, each are woth 20 points. so when you get 13/20 because one person didn't do their part it is such bullshit to the others... especially if you are the one who is first to pick the portion of the paper that you want to write (and it's the easiest part that requires NO thought) then there ( Read more... )