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Tuesday, November 28, 2017

“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.” --Harlan Ellison



Nothing feels quite real. Time just passes me by and nothing happens. Nothing happens except that I find myself dwindling down that familiar dark path again. I'm slowly sleeping less, slowly eating too much, slowly getting sick and staying sick. There isn't much of a today, there isn't much of tomorrow. Everyday seamlessly blends together in bad endings, if there were endings. Its like a reel that continues and continues, it lacks colour. That's what it feels like for me these days.

It is, however, very honestly and from the bottom of my heart, very touching to see those that were suffering for so long, finally get their break. Finally things are looking up. Finally its not all just pain and emptiness and loss and faithlessness. There is something life has to offer. This is what I tell people, when I can.

But now I can't. I've lost sight of that (again) and I am tired. So exhausted. I don't know what I'm fighting for anymore. I suddenly became unsure if its worth it, whether it was worth it at all. I realize once again that with or without me, life moves on just right. Truthfully, I know those thoughts as they form in my head, they're all made up, all real, but all fake.

"A paradox to most observers, Architects are able to live by glaring contradictions that nonetheless make perfect sense – at least from a purely rational perspective. For example, Architects are simultaneously the most starry-eyed idealists and the bitterest of cynics, a seemingly impossible conflict."



This conflict is eating me up from the inside, driving me less than sane.


I'm learning my place. Again, and again. Every time I become close to forgetting, I get this loud painful reminder that usually just ends in silence. So much silence. There's so much silence, its deafening; but there's no loud noise or music enough to silence that.

What am I even saying. I need sleep. I need to get away.
 

Soul machine

Monday, November 6, 2017

"As humans, we instinctively develop a loyalty and affection for those who show us the most loyalty and affection. This is all love really is: an irrational degree of loyalty and affection for another person—to the point that we’d come to harm or even die for that person."
--A brief history of romantic love


I've grown to love a handful of people in my measly 24 years of life. Some I've lost, some have stayed. In those stories, I've also collected a lot of heartache in all those years. When I was all young and naive and unable to reason the pain away, the common idea was to not love anymore, to prevent that kind of pain to repeat again in this lifetime. I may have lived like that for a year or two. Then, I had one very kind friend who was honest enough with me to tell me to re-evaluate the way I am treating people. And so I did.

Actually, I think I did a good job at ensuring that the pain didn't repeat itself after the 2nd time experiencing it. As the saying goes, the first time is a mistake, the second time is a choice. So after that second time, I became much more resilient, my shield was up and strong. Sometimes, too strong, it deflected a lot of good people too.

Currently, I think I've reached a good balance of good and strong. Not entirely a pushover, but not ignorant. I'm surrounded by a lot of good people. People who subconsciously make me a better person. More like force me. Is this what peer pressure is? Lol, peer pressure to be kind? Whatever it is, I think its a good kind of pressure.

But that painful experience that I had been deflecting for so long, I think its creeping up on me now. Its like an imminent approach, and while I did anticipate it, I do not look forward to it. I'm not sure what this experience will make me become. What if I become more monstrous? I'm already so old (hopefully much more matured), how much more damage can I do, right?


And on the days when we're alive, I choose to love.

I hope you do too.



"I wish somebody would have told me that
That some day, these will be the good old days
All the love you won't forget."


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