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My Life

My life is a paradoxical monstrosity

A contradiction in itself

Where to start?

Anywhere, everywhere, nowhere perhaps

Occupation,

I play with words.

How naughty does that sound?

Really, I'm in a complicated relationship with words, terms, definitions, metaphors

Writer by day, storyteller by night

And of course I love what I do

And I hate what I do

How very poetic of you!

Why thank you!

Sorry, the inner child speaks.

Back to writing,

And the moments of fantastic ecstasy

Where this jumble of verbs and nouns and adjectives you're trying to assemble

Clicks.

The bigger picture develops with crystal clear clarity

No fastidious statements

Or meaningless passages.

Just words, feelings, meanings

Soul.

That doesn't sound so bad you say

IT HAPPENS ONCE EVERY MILLENIA!

For the most I am frustrated.

Stumped to the point where rage overcomes and the only cathartic release is to sleep.

When I do manage to squeeze something out of the depths of my mind, it appears substandard, to say the least.

Zadie told me to get used to non-satisfaction

So I am satisfied with never been satisfied; does this make me satisfied?

Ow.

Please, I need an answer

I've been looking for answers for nineteen years,

But have I been asking the right questions?

Are there any answers?

Another question

No, that was the question

Confusion and befuddlment ravaging through your mind?

I recently realised there are no facts

Only really good suggestions by excessively knowledgeable and esteemed

I quite fancy being one of those guys

A visionary complete with the stereotypical glasses and overgrown beard

And I'd declare that being yourself is the first step to finding your purpose

Fact.

But what if finding your purpose is your purpose?

I'll leave you with that.

This is my life.

Complaining would be ungrateful of me; it's a good one really.

I can walk and run and play basketball and see my friends where we laugh endlessly.

Oh and Saturday morning cartoons.

I have problems, enormous world ending problems

But it's all relative.

Some think I'm strange, I prefer quirky.

I wonder how life would be if I'd chose the 'normal' option

Most likely, frightfully boring

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Jul 30, 2013
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