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I wish every day would last forever, like they seem to in the summer. With nothing to do but dwell in your thoughts and bask in loneliness. Human contact is annoyingly necessary and sometimes I wish I could escape it. I'd like to be alone, away from judgements, just me and my thoughts. Just me and my wants, hopes, dreams, desires, sifting and floating in my eyes and in my mind. I see them quite clearly now, only the thin fog of time clouds my view, making them seem like an illusion. Why do I wish for the future with such anxiety and at the same time, long for the past? Everything is temporary. That thought has been headlining every corner of my ideas and hopefulness. Everything is temporary, everything is an illusion just waiting to dissolve into the past wanting me to miss it and yearn for it back. Everything ends the same. Why worry about a broken window a ripped page, a battered heart, when everything will end up fixed, or in the trash, or healed and scarred over. Everything ends up in the past and the things you once looked forward to with such fear and excitement become irrelevant. If material possessions aren't important, then what is? Possessions are all we have. We possess cars, computers, phones, clothes, books, money, knowledge. Everything we know, feel, do, are revolved around what we possess. What more is there? Even love is a possession. You hold it, you keep it, you cherish it, and it's painful to part with it. Everything in life is temporary, nothing can cause joy without eventually causing pain. Nothing gold can stay.
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Aug 9, 2013
Aug 9, 2013 at 12:38 PM UTC
2-25-13
I wish every day would last forever, like they seem to in the summer. With nothing to do but dwell in your thoughts and bask in loneliness. Human contact is annoyingly necessary and sometimes I wish I could escape it. I'd like to be alone, away from judgements, just me and my thoughts. Just me and my wants, hopes, dreams, desires, sifting and floating in my eyes and in my mind. I see them quite clearly now, only the thin fog of time clouds my view, making them seem like an illusion. Why do I wish for the future with such anxiety and at the same time, long for the past? Everything is temporary. That thought has been headlining every corner of my ideas and hopefulness. Everything is temporary, everything is an illusion just waiting to dissolve into the past wanting me to miss it and yearn for it back. Everything ends the same. Why worry about a broken window a ripped page, a battered heart, when everything will end up fixed, or in the trash, or healed and scarred over. Everything ends up in the past and the things you once looked forward to with such fear and excitement become irrelevant. If material possessions aren't important, then what is? Possessions are all we have. We possess cars, computers, phones, clothes, books, money, knowledge. Everything we know, feel, do, are revolved around what we possess. What more is there? Even love is a possession. You hold it, you keep it, you cherish it, and it's painful to part with it. Everything in life is temporary, nothing can cause joy without eventually causing pain. Nothing gold can stay.
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Aug 9, 2013
Aug 9, 2013 at 12:38 PM UTC
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