Archive for October, 2008
We hold onto memories like a patched-up old teddy. Nostalgia comes in, turning what seemed like yesterday into the events of days, weeks and months ago. We absorb these nostalgic pieces of the past, turning memories into a visual scrapbook of our lives. But that’s all they are, memories. Nothing more than pieces of yesterday [...]
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Tags: happiness, memories, nostalgia
still not enough
The numbing denial washes over us like lightning rain. The blue sky littered with clouds calls out. The person we thought we knew though merely stands there, struck with a feeling of detachment.
The world is a big place. The tears that we manufacture every single day would be enough to flood the earth. So we [...]
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Tags: denial
happy endings
Over time we realise that happy endings don’t exist. We may even realise that with every happy moment comes a handful of hard ones. The ratio between the happy and the sad will never be equalled, but despite the fact that we try to rise for every occasion, the happy endings we thought were at [...]
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Tags: end of the tunnel, ratio
living in a box
The bleak spaces drill holes in the walls. A tinge of emptiness envelopes the room in its presence, framing the half-unhinged door and its adjacent windows. The lined linoleum speaks out to the absent air, asking it to read between the lines. The air doesn’t reply. A musky smell radiates from a corner, downplaying the [...]
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Tags: sanctuary
