1940's- Socialist reforms boost country prestige and revive a sense of nationalism and hope. Returning soldiers greeted with open arms, hailed as heroes, attempt to gain a sense of normalcy. Liberal democratic society deemed champion over fascism and communism and other extremist groups ( Read more... )

It had been sunny for days. Warm, jovial days capped by cloudless nights; as if the sun, stars, the cosmos were breathing a sigh of relief, exhaling a throaty sigh from the bottom of its dynamic swirling lungs. Finally, that sigh said. That sigh echoed through my world and bounced off my words and into the mouths of passers-by. I was the ( Read more... )

The greatest human tragedy is having so much to say and having no idea how to say it ( Read more... )

"You have a desire for the truth beyond what is common or easy."

I hope I can live up to this.

All I want is to convey how I feel to someone who understands so intimately how I feel nothing needs to be conveyed. I want to waste nothing on back-story, on catch-up. I want to start at a point we both understand and move forward ( Read more... )

It's weird how short this day was. I feel like I just woke up and its already almost time for bed. Where the hell does the time go? I spent a lot of time thinking and writing and drawing today though. I also spent a lot of time watching America's Next Top Model. Oops. Its funny to think about time as something you can spend. Then its funnier ( Read more... )

until I started reading some of my older LJ entries in which I have felt sad, or in a "perpetual funk" I think I put it. I was really beginning to feel the way the I felt when I wrote those entries and, again, I can't really understand why I feel the way I do. It really makes me miss my friends. My friends that are separating for the stupidest ( Read more... )

It's been quite a while my old friend, and I've got alot to say. You never really notice things changing until they've changed...unless you come and go periodically and can almost chart the progress of change. Such is my predicament. But while everyone is complaining about changes no one really stops to note all the things that are the same. ( Read more... )

I am at the lowest I think I've ever been. And over absolutely nothing. It's time i start ridding things in my life that are holding me back or making me something i'm not.

In other news, I developed a stress related cyst on my neck.

Why is it the hardest things in life to understand are the things we want and the hardest things in life to attain are the things we need?