2010 was rough. 2011 hasn't started well.

My new year's resolution? Have less faith in people and stop being so fucking naïve.

I think I've unwittingly made my theme (design-wise, at least) for this year nostalgia. I'm nostalgic for yesterday, for two months ago, for highschool, for ten years ago. It's surreal how quickly life passes by and how things change over time...how people and relationships and how much people mean to us change ( Read more... )

Right now, I am happy.
Sure, some things still kind of suck.
I miss a few people and I don't have time for much anything, but I'm good.
Maybe it's the power of positive thinking? I don't know...and that's okay.

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I was cleaning my computer - putting files in the appropriate folders and such - and came across what I'm assuming was a livejournal entry in progress. Over a year ago I had this entry listing fifty-something things about myself, all beginning with "I". I think what I was going after is the same thing, but in all honesty, I don't remember. ( Read more... )

"it is not the big events that hurt the most but rather the smallest questionable shift in tone at the end of a spoken word that can plow most deeply into the heart. it seems to him that nothing in the world of relationships proves to be generally true, that nothing follows a logical sequence, and that his search for cohesion leaves him empty of ( Read more... )

it's 7:13 am and i'm still not sleeping ( Read more... )

"You're cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you're stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up in the morning and that today that you wasted is gone forever. It's now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you, but now ( Read more... )

I had forgotten before why this had been one of my favourite books...

On John Mayer-esque 'clarity'

"It's in the morning, for most of us. It's that time, those few seconds when we're coming out of sleep but we're not fully awake yet. For those few seconds we're something more primitive than what we are about to become. We have just slept the ( Read more... )