March 2011
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She was sitting at a small table by the window. It wouldn’t be for another half hour before the person she had to meet was going to show up. She was gazing out the window.
Then she saw him. He exited a door beside the cafe she was sitting in and was walking across her plane of horizon. It had been four months, and he looked exactly the same as she remembered him.
It was like she was...
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It’s this vicious compulsion to find out. It’ll upset me, but I can’t stop checking. Unjustifiable and incontrollable. Maybe I’m looking for the ultimate closure. Or maybe I’m waiting to be reassured that this was the way it was meant to be.
February 2011
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People get so easily caught up in their own lives that they forget about you. I just want to know that in the midst of all that busyness, you took a second and thought of me. Not asking for anything out of it. I just want to know you remembered. Sometimes it is the thought that counts.
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You know it’ll hurt you to see it. You know it won’t change anything. But you want to know. You want to who she is. You quickly skim through the pictures. You see a picture of a birthday girl. It’s labeled “me + my sister in law”. You keep flipping through. You come to another girl. He’s standing beside her, his arm wrapped around her. They’re both looking...
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Please
Thank you
So simple. But so practical. Sometimes I think they’re underrated. Please make use of them. Thank you.
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Touch
Sometimes we forget how much comfort we can derive from a simple touch.
An elderly Italian woman with chin length pale blonde hair and piercing blue eyes sat in front of a desk that curved around her. Her right arm slid slowly across the table from her right side to her left, and then slowly back. “Push push push push push,” she cheered herself on. After several repetitions, she...
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Dream
What do you want to be when you grow up?
I remember my earliest answer was, I want to make a difference I want to change the world. It was a grand idea of course. But while growing up, my dream got cloudy with what seemed like other more important things. Things like financial and economic stability, and status and prestige. Things like going after something that I felt like I could achieve...
January 2011
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“I let you take the lead
because I’m depending on you
to help me find my...”
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Strangers
You can’t assume two people that walk right by each other are strangers.
It’s the beginning of summer and a spring breeze still lingers in the air. She’s walking toward the subway station with her mp3 plugged in. From a distance she sees a figure that she instinctively recognizes. Maybe it’s the way he walks, or maybe his stature, or maybe just simply his presence. She...
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“Dance like no one is watching,
love like you’ll never be hurt,
sing like...”
– William Purkey
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Mould
An old lady is standing by the kitchen counter. She looks more than ninety years old, and has a cane beside her in case she loses her balance again. She has a pair of kitchen scissors in one hand, and is cutting something.
With a closer look, you’ll see that she’s cutting bread. On a plate are pieces of already cut up bread, that are about a quarter of the original size. She takes...
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“When you like someone,
you’ll wish them happiness.
When you love...”
December 2010
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Perspective
When he was looking at her like that…what did he see? Did they see her differently? Did they see the same girl? Did they see the same girl that she sees when she looks in the mirror?
It’s Tuesday. She purposefully gets up ten minutes early so she’ll have more time to get ready. Tuesdays are the days she has class with him. She straightens her hair, and passes on the sweats. She...
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Does love at first sight exist? I’m not sure…I’ve never experienced it before. Can you fall in love with a stranger? That’s never happened to me before either. But then again, do you need to know everything about someone to love them? Sometimes you can know someone for years and still not know everything about them, because there are so many layers and sides and secrets to...
November 2010
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When it comes to relationships and people, I rely on intuition a lot. I have these…what my friend calls “gut feelings”. I can’t explain it using reason or logic, but my intuition has proven to be pretty reliable. Maybe my subconscious is sharper than me. The problem with this is when I try to explain it to people, it doesn’t sound very credible. “I just have a...
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For me, reality follows a progression. It begins as a thought. And of course, thoughts tend to creep up on you without your control, and before you know it, you’ve thought it already. If it ends as only a thought, then it’s something quite abstract, and perhaps unrealistic. But if I can put it into words, then this thought has formed into a coherent idea. And suddenly it’s become...