The salt at the tip of my tongue and freckled across my lips.
A mix of tan and pale, blue locked on blue.
Motions like waves, crash and dissipate.
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
I thought about telling you the news when I found out, but I've been thinking about telling you a lot of things I haven't.
Call me masochistic, but I seem to prefer to carry my burdens on me and me alone. Though that is not to say that I do not enjoy the occasional helping hand or arms to hold me when the weight is too much to bear. Or maybe we could chalk it up to communication issues- I can't communicate what I feel when I know it may burden or hurt another.
I digress, the real point of the matter is damn genetics. How can one little gene have such a hold on my family. A single gene; an unrelenting brute with the desire to kill.
Call me masochistic, but I seem to prefer to carry my burdens on me and me alone. Though that is not to say that I do not enjoy the occasional helping hand or arms to hold me when the weight is too much to bear. Or maybe we could chalk it up to communication issues- I can't communicate what I feel when I know it may burden or hurt another.
I digress, the real point of the matter is damn genetics. How can one little gene have such a hold on my family. A single gene; an unrelenting brute with the desire to kill.
Saturday, April 13, 2013
I hate the heart-sinking feeling of disappointment.
The sudden onset of downcast eyes and a hanging head.
I've always considered myself to be someone who is easily pleased. Show me an act of kindness and I'll show you an eternity. However, when I'm let down, it hits me hard. I do not understand why it is so hard for people, friends and enemies alike, to show common courtesy. It's unfathomable, to me, for so many people to only care about themselves--to lack a vital quality such as empathy.
I'm not trying to preach and I know I often come off as a "Holier than thou" personality type--but I can say that 99% of the time, I try to treat others how I'd want to be treated. I always look at a situation from every angle and treat it as fairly as I can. Is it truly THAT hard to place yourself in another person's shoes? To think of their situation as your own?
I guess it really is difficult to some people and that is what disappoints me. To put forth every effort you have into doing your best for everyone around you and constantly being let down by them. Sitting back and watching people mistreat others. People holding grudges, lying, using and abusing. Witnessing 23 years of that and I still have the naivety to not assume the worst in people--innocent of all of the above until proven otherwise.
Sigh. SSDD.
The sudden onset of downcast eyes and a hanging head.
I've always considered myself to be someone who is easily pleased. Show me an act of kindness and I'll show you an eternity. However, when I'm let down, it hits me hard. I do not understand why it is so hard for people, friends and enemies alike, to show common courtesy. It's unfathomable, to me, for so many people to only care about themselves--to lack a vital quality such as empathy.
I'm not trying to preach and I know I often come off as a "Holier than thou" personality type--but I can say that 99% of the time, I try to treat others how I'd want to be treated. I always look at a situation from every angle and treat it as fairly as I can. Is it truly THAT hard to place yourself in another person's shoes? To think of their situation as your own?
I guess it really is difficult to some people and that is what disappoints me. To put forth every effort you have into doing your best for everyone around you and constantly being let down by them. Sitting back and watching people mistreat others. People holding grudges, lying, using and abusing. Witnessing 23 years of that and I still have the naivety to not assume the worst in people--innocent of all of the above until proven otherwise.
Sigh. SSDD.
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