Posts Tagged ‘musings’

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20Nov09

“tell me, do you love him?”
“i love him enough.”
and so, is that how it will be from now on? a second-rate type of love? if so, let me know, so that i can ’settle’.
maybe my ticket for first-rate love has already expired.


excerpt

06Nov09

the thing is. it was like wearing a pair of comfortable shoes. well-worn, pre-loved. you know exactly where the seams are falling apart, where the grooves are, the one way to walk such that it doesn’t make that flappy noise, and those soft spots, that make it your favourite pair in the whole wide world.


was talking to R the other day when she brought up the term ’social incest’, which struck me with such force; akin to a block of wood coming towards me at full speed. perhaps it was the relevance, or maybe even the fact that the pairing of these two words had never occurred to me, [...]


oh so true.

01Nov09

dream.

29Oct09

all people dream, but not equally.
those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their mind,
wake in the morning to find that it was vanity.
but the dreamers of the day are dangerous people.
for they dream their dreams with open eyes,
and make them come true.
d.h. lawrence


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we live in our grown-up dollhouses completely unaware that, at any moment, a hand might come in and change everything we have become accustomed to.


a little adventure never hurt anyone. for isn’t it the best to spend your life living today as if it were the first (or last) day of your life?
plus, i’ve realized that sometimes you simply get no second chance. get up, pick up, and move on. it’s best to accept the gifts the world offers [...]


nicest thing

02Sep09

at every moment of our lives, we have one foot in a fairytale, and the other in the abyss.
i found out today that the injustice of life still makes me cry (so i am not numb after all, thank god). so much so that i started thinking (to my dismay) about the passions and loves [...]