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Even in the event of minor tragedies, the hour when you want someone to hold your hand and say nothing but “I understand”, it is difficult to find someone. People are asleep, abed, abroad ( Read more... )

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It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about.

I cried earlier. A friend rang me up and I told her everything, that my day was terrible. We talked about a lot of things. In the middle of all my crying, an ant crawled right in front of me. Not long afterwards, he stopped moving and died. There was another ant not a foot behind him and soon they met up, and then the second ant picked him up and ( Read more... )

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Today it dawned on me that most of the people that cross my mind on a daily basis when I'm alone are people I no longer speak to. People I miss. People I haven't met. People I've met and let go of. And then there's a separate group of people I'm still directly connected to, people who are close but so distant. I miss my dad. I miss his seemingly ( Read more... )

You come home from your going-nowhere temp job, you plop down on the couch or bed and that's your night. You spend the whole day staring at one screen or another, watching other people live ( Read more... )

some emotions don’t make a lot of noise. it’s hard to hear pride nowadays. caring is real faint, like a heartbeat. and missing someone.. why, some days it’s so quiet, you don’t even know it’s there.

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