“If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.” ― Jean-Paul Sartre — do i feel lonely? with my mother oceans away my father mountains of continents away and my brother in …
my first racist interaction
“Our true nationality is mankind.” ― H.G. Wells — It happened today. For the first time. Left me shocked and bewildered. I was on the bus. Listening to stories about Costa Rica and plant …
goodbye my friend
Here is an unsent goodbye letter, that I wrote to a friend. My beautiful friend is okay and doing awesome. I wish she could stay close to me forever, but life happened differently to us …
an evening swing
“It is the evening that questions thus from within me.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra — spring evening the sun sits low almost kissing the horizon its blinding glow leaks into the …
self-love to narcissism
“I don’t care what you think unless it is about me.” ― Kurt Cobain — I am scared, scared that if I practice self-love, I will manifest narcissism. The question sprouts in my mind, when …
once, on an early morning…
“The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.” ― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin — I woke up before 6 am only once, and wrote …
comfortable pain
“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.” ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary — why is emotional …
Notre Dame
“With each passing [and passage], there is a further wearing away of the layers or coverings that obscure our essential selves. And so, as we say “goodbye” again and again, we feel thinner, narrower, more …
cherry blossoms
“What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms.” ― Kobayashi Issa, Poems — they perch plush and plum on the tree branches that used to stare naked to the sky dipped in …
how do you define yourself?
“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I’ve ever known.” ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters — how does one define oneself? by what occupies their hours during the day? …