attachments

26Jun09

People weave in and out of our lives all the time. The attachments we develop become us, and forge a path for what comes next. The people who matter – they start to transform our lives from the beginning, but when they decide to walk out on everything we have built together, we become a [...]

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Tags: attachment, memories

tainting the memories of yesterday

31Oct08

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

slipping away

24Sep08

We know when we’re slipping away. We feel the tug of a person we don’t know, trying to take away everything we used to know. When nothing is left, we go on unable to find a trace of what used to reside here. The unknown beckons to us, trying to hold us in its icy [...]

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Tags: memories, slipping away

opening the floodgates

09Sep08

Sometimes our pain is too deep for even darkness to inhabit what is left of ourselves. The build-up of trapped emotions lingers on the doorstep of our lives waiting to surge out into the open, to infiltrate everyone else’s false happiness. It slithers and crawls into every corner of our world hoping to infect any [...]

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Tags: flood of tears, memories, pain