Word.

You need to be lost, to find yourself.

Give.

This is a pledge. To stop being self-centered,
To stop talking about 'my pain' and 'my complications'.
Because people have it harder
and we owe it to them to live and give.

Cold hard Ruth

Some of us have to live with the harder truths of life.
We're working for some future we believe in.
Everything now is our sacrifice,

and I hope we're right.

Elongated Painful Overnight

You've changed. My maps I drew of you are useless now. It took me time to find who you really are. The detours, the challenges, the possible bipolar. And now you've changed. I lost the way to your heart, right?

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I am embarking on a personal project with another writer. It is a chapter by chapter story project where I'll write a piece and the other writer will continue the story with his chapter.

This is not an advertisement. But I would appreciate it if you could offer comments. Otherwise, you could always read it when you're out of good books to read.

The link will be pasted at the side bar when we're ready. :)

Note to Self

Dear Stranger, yes you.

If you left behind something important.
If you just broke up/ apart.
If you went into hiding to find yourself.
If you are addicted to drugs.
If you think you're all alone.
If you come here and say this is me.

Please let go.

Keep calm and carry on.

A Reason When

Escape is inevitable when you suddenly realise that you've lost yourself.

It's not like you just did lose you, but it has been a while since you've asked yourself how you really felt about how your day was/things. And for once, while waiting for an answer, you answered yourself

only this time, with silence.

"But I just want to be alone."

I realise that people are made up of bonds. Bonds that are stronger than covalent and ionic. Bonds forged out of memories, a simple greeting, or a mutual friend. Bonds can be assuring. But at times, bonds are so stifling that it slowly limits your breathing space and it dawned one me that

the only true way to be free is to pry yourself away from these gripping hands. It is probably time to turn away from people who blind yourself with the connection you share with them, and find yourself amidst these normal, non-traumatised people.