December 2008
After a while you learn the subtle difference Between holding a hand and chaining a soul, And you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning And company doesn’t mean security. And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts And presents aren’t promises, And you begin to accept your defeats With your head up and your eyes open With the grace of a woman, not the grief of a...
“There’s something inherently wrong with me that needs to be fixed, or...”
– Jessie, Intervention.
“I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when...”
– Dave Eggers (A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius)
who we never were.
People are always talking about freedom, and how to live a certain way. Course the more you live a certain way the less it feels like freedom. Me? I can change during the course of a day. When I wake I’m one person, when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else. I don’t know who I am most of the time. It’s like you got yesterday, today and tomorrow all in the same...
on failure.
There’s something to be said for failing. It’s not the failure you feel, it’s the failure that people project when something disappoints. You’re back to ground zero, where there’s no expectations, and that’s where I like to be. People like to set the bar high. I like to put the bar on the ground and barely step over it. I like to keep the expectations really...
“Don’t worry about people from your past, there’s a reason they didn’t make it to...”
– anonymous (via anotherandomspaceontheinterweb)
i love overheard.
Bum doing the robot: Zzzzzzz robot, zzzzzzz whirrr whirr, doing the robot.
Cop passing by, over car loudspeaker: That is the worst robot I've ever seen.
“You must know… surely, you must know it was all for you. You are too...”
