Getting Colder

[mistersleepless]

Monday, I wanted you back. Tuesday, I decided you couldn't have me back. Wednesday, I realised it didn't matter to you. Thursday, I tried to make it not matter to me. Friday, I figured it was time to leave

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[starra_lain]

It's odd-- I think that's exactly how pain works over time (for me anyway), but I haven't been able to articulate it words before.

[polypolyglot]

Wow. Thanks for this.

I'm reminded of the quote (possibly attributable to Harlan Ellison) about how "real pain only lasts 12 seconds. All else is self indulgence." Something like that.

Re: You're ever-fantastic, Mr. Ellis

[mistersleepless]

In a couple of months, you'll forget I was ever here. Internet time moves fast.

Re: You're ever-fantastic, Mr. Ellis

[dancinglights]

Internet time moves fast, but it doesn't make people forget, only get bitterly nostalgic about the so many more things that come and go in the same calendar time. Once each settles into bitter nostalgia, it stays for just as long as it ever would outside. I've been here twelve years, half my life, and at twenty-four I miss good old days of long ago like hundred-year-old grandmothers mumbling into their oatmeal. No sir, you'll be missed in our early old age.

Re: You're ever-fantastic, Mr. Ellis

[ponderingsloth]

The fastest.

The internet has a way of reducing the human mind to nothing more than faulty RAM.

[razrangel]

Yes.

And on the coldest days I go back to walking. Or maybe I walk because it's cold. Regardless. Bravo.

[petite_tadpole]

Wow...