February 2012
10 posts
why i did it
i needed to prove to myself that i was wrong. i need to know that there was beauty in the world beyond you. but i ended up realizing, you weren’t so beautiful at all.
“And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the...”
– Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
1 tag
No. 2 - Go to the Chapel of the Trinity
The Chapel of the Trinity in the Château de Fontainebleau
3am makes you honest. strips you down naked until you’re quivering, incapable of deceit. at last, you can be a decent human being.
but the truth is, i lied. because for most of us, 3am means cowardice, clandestine hide-outs and chewed up nails.
we are far from decent, just fragments of little white lies
you are not the same person at 2am. you look for faces in your coffee and your mind wanders to far away places. you feel drowsy yet your senses are heightened. creaks and squeaks don’t startle you but the silence alone is enough to break you down. 2am is a strange place.
it’s a darn thing how we waste away our lives doing hard and boring things. i never understood it.
i simply accepted it. lived it. learned to love it.
January 2012
9 posts
“I’d imagine the whole world was one big machine. Machines never come with any...”
– Hugo Cabret from Hugo
1 tag
No. 1 - Build a fort and live in it for a day
i’m shining like fireworks over your sad empty town
to conquer your own fears
to release your inhibitions
to put on a brave face, chin up, big smile
that is heartbreak warfare.
today, i won.
December 2011
7 posts
“I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better,...”
– The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
““Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child...”
– Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
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without you
the trees are just trees
i don’t know how else to put it
a few things
call of duty
holiday flavoured anything
mayonnaise
small mammals