Posts Tagged ‘truth’

anaesthesia

23Aug08

Hiding from the truth is like getting tranquilised. The numbing sensation hits us, just as the pain prepares to invade the inner sanctum of our consciousness. The anaesthetic protects us, closing our eyes to the very things that would break down the barrier between what we want to know and what we refuse to accept.
There’s [...]


scrapbook

26Jun08

Over time we create this scrapbook of memories in our mind. Every pitfall, every success, every moment in our lives recorded in the hope that we’ll remember everything that have shaped us, good and bad. While we can’t recollect every fragment of the past, every now and then it all comes back to us deepening [...]


It seemed an eternity ago that a smile came so easily. That the stars would shine so brightly against the deep navy sky. An eternity later, I’m standing here wondering what happened to that girl. The girl who would make friends with everyone she met. The one who would sing a song wrongly [...]


trust

04Jun08

Trust: faith, hope, and a million other things that are described by this one word.
We often find ourselves placing trust in almost everything around us: from the latest Ford car ad which promises us the new Falcon is “bigger and better” to our very own friends. We WANT to trust everything because then we’d probably [...]