The true meaning of suffering. No amount of melodrama in life can strip a person so bare, but only death has this power to really crush your spirit.

"Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless ( Read more... )

"Excessive jealousy comes down to possessiveness. And a woman, my friend, is something to be cherished, not owned ( Read more... )

Empty-handed. The wind is sweeping into my ears, shifting my thoughts, packing them into a corner. Like magic, I am forgetting who I am, my place. Where am I? Like a scrabble game, I am a scrabble tile and I make a word together with the many other scrabble tiles I mix with. It's like I've been displaced, like you've taken this one tile that ( Read more... )

"Ruin is a gift. Ruin is a gift for transformation."
- Eat, Pray, Love

For my Grandma: Departed 6 Nov 2010

I am a dreamer, but I cannot run.

It's a Friday and we gather to see
Altogether.
She is unmoving, but faultless.
Speechless, but clearly speaks.
There is no sound but I feel the voices
ringing still and clear.
There are no words.
Are you waiting Popo?

"Amazing grace, how sweet the sound"
We sing and laugh, we clap
We sing ( Read more... )

I remember the afternoon, cloudy and quiet, and I remember, too, almost leaving myself, the person I was, the ordinary way I felt about things, my perception of - there’s no other word for it - the depth of life, and above all the thrill of successive lines.

-- James Salter, "Give" 

I would tell you flatly I am disappointed with Life and very accepting of how we all get dealt a different set of cards - some clearly more favourable, some downright pathetic and sad. I can't live, unvalued, and for everyone else. Perhaps in my search for a solution, for a while I believed I found it. But now my solution has exposed itself merely ( Read more... )

I say everything really well with music?

I could say that I'll always be here for you,
But that would be a lie and quite a pointless thing to do,
I could says that I'll always have feelings for you
but i've got a life ahead of me, I'm only 22,

Since you've gone I've lost a chip on my shoulder,
Since you've gone I feel like I've gotten older,
And now you' ( Read more... )

I still don't have the reason ( Read more... )

There's something really sweet and innocent about two opposite-gender siblings who never seem to get along, and how when something big happens to little sister, Big Brother steps up to take care of it, and though no one says a word, Little Sister is so touched by her brother's gesture, and Big Brother is suddenly aware how much he really loves his ( Read more... )