I looked in the mirror and found myself looking into her eyes, which held no secrets, if you knew how to look. I saw the lashes fanning them and saw the ones, which had fallen as she rubbed on watery eyes, eyes in pain, eyes in disbelief, eyes in boredom. I raised my hand to trace the curve of her cheek where tears found new paths everyday, where ( Read more... )

I don’t think it’s right for me to keep saying I’m okay when people ask me how I am. Not because I’m not okay, but because such a big question requires an answer that’s more thought out and more meaningful. People would probably look at me oddly if I tell them that my heart feels like the aria that the fat lady sings at the end of an opera, or that ( Read more... )

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Today, I am back in Ann Arbor. The place of so many memories I don't want to forget, and nightmares I don't want to remember ( Read more... )

I'm having a fantastic time.

Can you believe that?

I think, I've already said too much. At some point, I have to let all of this go.

Whatever purpose it used to serve has somewhat been dissipated by time, and experience.

I'll be hanging around, because you folks are the special ones. Don't be strangers.

Especially to be the people who are really part of your life.

What paralyzes me is not the fear, but the feeling that it is wrong to be afraid. When I start off wrong, it's so difficult to get back on the right track again. Always, the feeling of mediocrity is self-fulfilling, even when one has... potential ( Read more... )

They have rehabilitation centers for drug addicts and alcoholics. There are reform schools for delinquents and criminals. They even have beauty schools for the unglamorous and unpretty. There's therapy for injured people, both emotionally and physically. There's some sort of institution of hope and change for every socially, physically, morally ( Read more... )

Love is in the fucking air.

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truths we cling on to
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on our
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