A recurring thought that only seems to strike you late at night—an overdue task, a nagging guilt, a looming and shapeless future—that circles high overhead during the day, that pecks at the back of your mind while you try to sleep, that you can successfully ignore for weeks, only to feel its presence hovering outside…
Tag: circle
Beautiful World
The world is kind, the world is beautiful, the world is full of people just like you, that want to be heard, that dream of being understood.. just because the circle you’re clinging to is insensitive doesn’t mean the world isn’t humane, get out there, there are better ones to love. The End Just some…
Zenosyne
The sense that time keeps going faster. As a kid, you run around so fast, the world around you seems to stand still. Summer vacation can stretch on for an eternity. With each birthday we circle back and cross the same point around the sun. We wish each other “many happy returns”. But soon you feel…
The Hoax
Screeching and screaming, I don’t see no end to this frustration. The never-ending drama, that people call life- stress, anxiety, caring about what people think, trying different things just to reach the same result. Wanting to do so much, but doing so little. Love bursting inside, but can’t let it out. Fear chewing my insides,…
Being a Human
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us the “Universe”, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our…
Anecdoche
A conversation in which everyone is talking but nobody is listening, simply overlaying disconnected words like a game of Scrabble, with each player borrowing bits of other anecdotes as a way to increase their own score, until we all run out of things to say. Coined in 2012 by John Koenig in The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows,…
Once in a Lifetime
The best kind of people are the ones that come into your life and make you see sun where you once saw clouds. The people that believe in you so much, you start to believe in you too. The people that love you simply for being you. The once in a lifetime kind of people….