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Sometimes you open yourself up to a person because you feel and believe that they're different and maybe this time they won't break your heart and that your love will be requitted. So you go out on a limb and open up so much of yourself to this person. Things that you're afraid to tell others about because of fear of being judged or rejected. But there's just something about this person that allows you to tell them everything. You become so comfortable in the presence of that person that you openly admit your flaws, you don't hide it. You just completely lose yourself in love and in the thought and concept of being loved, of being in a relationship and of being with someone that you can be yourself with. The idea of that person just completely excites you and everything about them makes you happy. Seeing them and hearing their voice just helps you in an inexplicable manner and being with them is an emotion of complete comfortability on its  own. You learn to love this person and you accept their flaws and differences. You accept how they might not necessarily love eating McDonalds as much as you do or they are crazy about sci-fi movies where you can't even get yourself past watching a chick flick. But that's just it, you don't mind. You don't mind because love is about sacrifices. Its about sacrificing your weekly episode of The Vampire Diaries to watch the most recent sports updates. Because you'd rather lose the argument than to lose the person. You'd sacrifice a part of your daily routine all for love. The worst part is that nothing is guaranteed. You're not guaranteed how long you will be in a relationship with this person. You're not guaranteed complete happiness and you're not guaranteed that things are going to be perfect. You just have to trust this person and have faith. Believe the best and hope that everything will work out for the. Best. Believe that even if you break up with this person, that you're going to be ok. Everything is going to be ok, and that new beginnings are perfectly acceptable. Believe that you're going to overcome heartbreak of any kind. You just have to believe that someone out there is looking for someone like you. What others see Wrong in you just might be the exact thing that will make someone else fall in love with you. And you need to be realistic. Not all relationships last forever. Some relationships are there for lessons and experiences. So that very person that you completely open yourself up to, can break your heart. It could be during or even after the relationship. But its all part of life I guess. You'll never know how to love someone wholeheartedly if you haven't been hurt before. You just have to turn your heartbreak in to something positive, make the most out of your situation. See the light in the darkness. But learn to deal with things too. Find closure in what happened to you and don't leave a relationship with unfinished business. Because unfinished business will have to be finished sooner or later, and I think sooner is better. Allow yourself time to heal too. Opening yourself up to someone that much can hurt you a lot, and everything you had with that person will be completely lost in an instant. And you're gonna need to come to terms with that. Remember that what's meant to be , will be. Love, is a complicated thing, and you're never quite sure how things could possibly turn out to be. You're just gonna go out on a limb each time hoping for the best and patiently waiting for your happily ever after with a special person.
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Oct 25, 2013
Oct 25, 2013 at 1:00 AM UTC
My prepared speech for school- Love.
Sometimes you open yourself up to a person because you feel and believe that they're different and maybe this time they won't break your heart and that your love will be requitted. So you go out on a limb and open up so much of yourself to this person. Things that you're afraid to tell others about because of fear of being judged or rejected. But there's just something about this person that allows you to tell them everything. You become so comfortable in the presence of that person that you openly admit your flaws, you don't hide it. You just completely lose yourself in love and in the thought and concept of being loved, of being in a relationship and of being with someone that you can be yourself with. The idea of that person just completely excites you and everything about them makes you happy. Seeing them and hearing their voice just helps you in an inexplicable manner and being with them is an emotion of complete comfortability on its  own. You learn to love this person and you accept their flaws and differences. You accept how they might not necessarily love eating McDonalds as much as you do or they are crazy about sci-fi movies where you can't even get yourself past watching a chick flick. But that's just it, you don't mind. You don't mind because love is about sacrifices. Its about sacrificing your weekly episode of The Vampire Diaries to watch the most recent sports updates. Because you'd rather lose the argument than to lose the person. You'd sacrifice a part of your daily routine all for love. The worst part is that nothing is guaranteed. You're not guaranteed how long you will be in a relationship with this person. You're not guaranteed complete happiness and you're not guaranteed that things are going to be perfect. You just have to trust this person and have faith. Believe the best and hope that everything will work out for the. Best. Believe that even if you break up with this person, that you're going to be ok. Everything is going to be ok, and that new beginnings are perfectly acceptable. Believe that you're going to overcome heartbreak of any kind. You just have to believe that someone out there is looking for someone like you. What others see Wrong in you just might be the exact thing that will make someone else fall in love with you. And you need to be realistic. Not all relationships last forever. Some relationships are there for lessons and experiences. So that very person that you completely open yourself up to, can break your heart. It could be during or even after the relationship. But its all part of life I guess. You'll never know how to love someone wholeheartedly if you haven't been hurt before. You just have to turn your heartbreak in to something positive, make the most out of your situation. See the light in the darkness. But learn to deal with things too. Find closure in what happened to you and don't leave a relationship with unfinished business. Because unfinished business will have to be finished sooner or later, and I think sooner is better. Allow yourself time to heal too. Opening yourself up to someone that much can hurt you a lot, and everything you had with that person will be completely lost in an instant. And you're gonna need to come to terms with that. Remember that what's meant to be , will be. Love, is a complicated thing, and you're never quite sure how things could possibly turn out to be. You're just gonna go out on a limb each time hoping for the best and patiently waiting for your happily ever after with a special person.
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You used to tell me how you didn't like the way I lacked a sense of intimacy, How I wouldn't hold you the way you wanted to be held, The way she held you, I wouldn't kiss you much in public, So you didn't give me a chance to get away, You would hold me tighter and my escape was found within the lock of our mouths, I liked it, But I always wondered what normal really is, Were you like this with her or was she normal, Do you crave the touch of women who lack the intimacy you desire, or do you simply like playing our little game, As of late I've tried to touch you more, say words which feel like rosebuds, So sweet and elegantly delicate, And the more I show this foreign concept if an intimate relationship, The more I fall in love, The more I fall into your trap of smiles and fingers running through my hair, The more I crave your kisses, your touch, What happened to me? Because darling, I'm afraid.
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Dec 10, 2014
Dec 10, 2014 at 9:28 PM UTC
Intimacy
By and by Man will try To get out into the sky, Sailing far beyond the air From Down and Here to Up and There. Stars and sky, sky and stars Make us feel the prison bars. Suppose it done. Now we ride Closed in steel, up there, outside Through our port-holes see the vast Heaven-scape go rushing past. Shall we? All that meets the eye Is sky and stars, stars and sky. Points of light with black between Hang like a painted scene Motionless, no nearer there Than on Earth, everywhere Equidistant from our ship. Heaven has given us the slip. Hush, be still. Outer space Is a concept, not a place. Try no more. Where we are Never can be sky or star. From prison, in a prison, we fly; There's no way into the sky.
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Science-fiction Cradlesong
Do I relate to the post-postmodern True-life voodoo incomes are hard-earned If I put a hyphen between words Does that spawn a new one like lovebirds Isn't love the same word that I saw Don't crows live like bandits and outlaws Don't they have the outlook of bourgeois Carry stolen crackers in their claws There's no change that I couldn't change Every change that I change always stays the same I wanna sing with a slingshot serenade I wanna donate change to a masquerade I wanna die while I'm in the spotlight I want my death to inspire a rewrite I want to blur the lines of insight I want to make them think that I'm their height So give me all your red green yellow blue If you can find a pool then I'll refract with you You're a mirage and your favorite color's see-through You're my fata morgana from this point of view Are there any words for my freakshow feelings Isn't sugarcoated terminology appealing Wouldn't it be easier to represent the meaning Of a hard to swallow concept with an arbitrary ceiling Cryptic cultish crease in the catalog Paranoia backtrack to analog I can run much faster than I can jog Magic circle summoning Chernobog I can break the barrier of sound and space With these essential elemental explanations in your face But it doesn't matter everything I say will go to waste Because the power of the mind is putting power out of place Hindsight reflecting, teenagers texting Late to the punch with the big money flexing Let's settle this with a match in the ring Or a match to the rope of a cannon firing I wanna die while I'm in the spotlight I want my death to inspire a rewrite I want to blur the lines of insight I want to make them think that I'm their height I wanna hypnotize and paralyze I wanna make them think that I'm their size I wanna break their spirits drink their blood I wanna **** their souls I wanna **** them good
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Dec 18, 2013
Dec 18, 2013 at 7:58 PM UTC
lovebirds
Do I relate to the post-postmodern True-life voodoo incomes are hard-earned If I put a hyphen between words Does that spawn a new one like lovebirds Isn't love the same word that I saw Don't crows live like bandits and outlaws Don't they have the outlook of bourgeois Carry stolen crackers in their claws There's no change that I couldn't change Every change that I change always stays the same I wanna sing with a slingshot serenade I wanna donate change to a masquerade I wanna die while I'm in the spotlight I want my death to inspire a rewrite I want to blur the lines of insight I want to make them think that I'm their height So give me all your red green yellow blue If you can find a pool then I'll refract with you You're a mirage and your favorite color's see-through You're my fata morgana from this point of view Are there any words for my freakshow feelings Isn't sugarcoated terminology appealing Wouldn't it be easier to represent the meaning Of a hard to swallow concept with an arbitrary ceiling Cryptic cultish crease in the catalog Paranoia backtrack to analog I can run much faster than I can jog Magic circle summoning Chernobog I can break the barrier of sound and space With these essential elemental explanations in your face But it doesn't matter everything I say will go to waste Because the power of the mind is putting power out of place Hindsight reflecting, teenagers texting Late to the punch with the big money flexing Let's settle this with a match in the ring Or a match to the rope of a cannon firing I wanna die while I'm in the spotlight I want my death to inspire a rewrite I want to blur the lines of insight I want to make them think that I'm their height I wanna hypnotize and paralyze I wanna make them think that I'm their size I wanna break their spirits drink their blood I wanna **** their souls I wanna **** them good
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Somedays my thoughts shriek so loud that they congest the rest of my mind other days they chant lullaby's as if nothing traumatic has ever happened one moment i'm up the next im crumbling to my knees one or the other its consistent drowning with no one to rescue me I'm keen on telling myself its all in my head at times, but doctors tell me its all me but for gods sake do they realize what horrid phrases the voices scream? death would be so heavenly I long for the passing of sides im awaiting to go home where its all white and peaceful i have days where im so narcissistic; I swear I can commence the world as if every millisecond is a luxury of sighs and sounds at moments my dispute comes out so rapid all i get is crooked looks and mumbles some days, I love him other times I swear he's the devil in disguise during my manic episodes you spoke soft as if I was a fallen angle that was overflowing with life. You had mentioned a world that disculded me was a world you cannot exist in You said I influenced your heart to skip beats, that I saved you, I was your fresh air Once he witnessed myself during a dreadful episode you declared loving me was exhausting and space is what you desired for hell could i control this? he was the one isolated concept I could ever make my ******* mind up about I loved him; I love him he said that his devotion to me was similar to staring into a black hole but seeing the reflection of the delicate sunset it never made sense to him BUT HELL DID IT MAKE SENSE TO ME? when he stranded me, i couldn't help but dissolve in tears i was nowhere adjacent to happy but that's all I've ever comprehended my doctor says they've observed a change maybe its the sleepless weeks and collection of mood stabilizers consuming pills in hopes to not feel so ******* empty anticipating on my next manic episode waiting for the door to open to go home If I have learned anything from living with BPD it is im constantly dilapidated upon everything one day soon I hope to recover from this disorder that replicates a loud room without recognizing how loud it was and all I hear is the ringing in my ears that doesn't seem to have an end some day this will be over some day my lover will stay I pray to fall in love with another angel again
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Nov 14, 2015
Nov 14, 2015 at 2:27 PM UTC
Living with BPD( Bipolar Disorder)
Somedays my thoughts shriek so loud that they congest the rest of my mind other days they chant lullaby's as if nothing traumatic has ever happened one moment i'm up the next im crumbling to my knees one or the other its consistent drowning with no one to rescue me I'm keen on telling myself its all in my head at times, but doctors tell me its all me but for gods sake do they realize what horrid phrases the voices scream? death would be so heavenly I long for the passing of sides im awaiting to go home where its all white and peaceful i have days where im so narcissistic; I swear I can commence the world as if every millisecond is a luxury of sighs and sounds at moments my dispute comes out so rapid all i get is crooked looks and mumbles some days, I love him other times I swear he's the devil in disguise during my manic episodes you spoke soft as if I was a fallen angle that was overflowing with life. You had mentioned a world that disculded me was a world you cannot exist in You said I influenced your heart to skip beats, that I saved you, I was your fresh air Once he witnessed myself during a dreadful episode you declared loving me was exhausting and space is what you desired for hell could i control this? he was the one isolated concept I could ever make my ******* mind up about I loved him; I love him he said that his devotion to me was similar to staring into a black hole but seeing the reflection of the delicate sunset it never made sense to him BUT HELL DID IT MAKE SENSE TO ME? when he stranded me, i couldn't help but dissolve in tears i was nowhere adjacent to happy but that's all I've ever comprehended my doctor says they've observed a change maybe its the sleepless weeks and collection of mood stabilizers consuming pills in hopes to not feel so ******* empty anticipating on my next manic episode waiting for the door to open to go home If I have learned anything from living with BPD it is im constantly dilapidated upon everything one day soon I hope to recover from this disorder that replicates a loud room without recognizing how loud it was and all I hear is the ringing in my ears that doesn't seem to have an end some day this will be over some day my lover will stay I pray to fall in love with another angel again
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When I opened my eyes I did not see my husband. No longer was I staring into the eyes of the man I had married. What stood over me was dark... Was like a demon ready to feast on a meal that could serve an entire colony for a month. This monster gazed over my body and stared at me like the last ounce of satisfaction in existence. And with that final smirk he unleashed the beast that would rob me of total control and devoured me whole. My soul was painted with the lust of this being. This creature... this thing... this being of unholy and complete dominance... he had done the unthinkable. He was not the man I had married... oh no.. he was much much more... he was my soul mate... and that night... we made total and complete love. not in the sheets of a single room, but we broke the laws of the universe and let the stars bare witness to this event.. this new chapter. A new type of beginning. A new type of... 'Big bang"... A new start of creation. This was not simply a kink but absolute and pure passion. His eyes roared with obsession and utter desire to please me and worship my very existence. Gods would not understand such treatment, Titans could never even begin to comprehend the concept of it. It just simply was and forever could be known as... Love.
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Sep 10, 2015
Sep 10, 2015 at 1:08 AM UTC
What is Love 3... ****** Trials..
I'm a lot gayer than originally planned. ******* Gay. But I'm worried about the concept; not sure if it's right to use the word “gay” when (I'm sorry I said it) I'm really bisexual, just particularly into women right now. Like, is that bad representation of my sexuality? Only encouraging bi-erasure? It just doesn't have the same “umph” to say I'm feeling particularly bisexual today. But I've been telling myself over and over that it's okay, no matter what I'm feeling today. I don't need your box anymore.
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Jan 24, 2015
Jan 24, 2015 at 1:33 PM UTC
Gay I?
hindi mo alam kung gaano kahirap ang pinagdaanan nya bago sya magdesisyon. hindi mo alam kung anong impact sa kanya ng desisyong ginawa nya. hindi porket sya ang nang iwan hindi na sya nasaktan. may mga bagay na hindi masabi ng direkta kaya itatago na lang sa salitang "ayoko na" pero ang totoo may malalim na dahilan kung bakit ka nya binitiwan. may malalim na dahilan bakit ka nya iniwan. hindi natin pwedeng husgahan ang isang tao base sa pinakita o pinapakita nya. Hindi lahat ng nang iwan walang pinaglalaban. hindi lahat ng nang iwan sarili lang nila ang dahilan. sa totoo lang mas masakit dun sa side ng taong nang iwan sayo na may malalim na dahilan kesa sayong binigla ng di mo inaasahan. alam mo kung bakit? kasi sya buong buhay nyang dadalhin yung sakit kasi nag Letgo sya kahit ayaw nya. oo andun na sa "kung mahal mo ipaglalaban mo" quit that **** concept. hindi all the time pag mahal mo ipaglalaban mo. hindi sapat yung mahal ka nya para manatili sya. maraming bagay ang hindi mo alam pero mas pinili nya talagang hindi ipaalam. Kase ayaw nya na ikaw ay mas masaktan pa. hindi mo alam kung gaano kasakit sa kanya yung iwan ka ng ganon ganon lang. pero mas masakit kung mananatili sya sayo kung ikasasama mo naman. hindi lahat ng nang iiwan sumuko na. hindi lahat ng nang iwan napagod na. Hindi lahat ng nang iwan wala ng pakealam. Hindi lahat ng nang iwan hindi nasaktan. at hindi lahat ng nang iwan hindi kana mahal kasi may mga bagay na mas mabuting bitawan na lang kesa panghawakan parin kahit alam natin na mag eend-up din ng parehas kayong masasaktan.
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Aug 27, 2018
Aug 27, 2018 at 2:19 PM UTC
HINDI PORKET SYA ANG NANG IWAN HINDI NA SYA NASAKTAN
hindi mo alam kung gaano kahirap ang pinagdaanan nya bago sya magdesisyon. hindi mo alam kung anong impact sa kanya ng desisyong ginawa nya. hindi porket sya ang nang iwan hindi na sya nasaktan. may mga bagay na hindi masabi ng direkta kaya itatago na lang sa salitang "ayoko na" pero ang totoo may malalim na dahilan kung bakit ka nya binitiwan. may malalim na dahilan bakit ka nya iniwan. hindi natin pwedeng husgahan ang isang tao base sa pinakita o pinapakita nya. Hindi lahat ng nang iwan walang pinaglalaban. hindi lahat ng nang iwan sarili lang nila ang dahilan. sa totoo lang mas masakit dun sa side ng taong nang iwan sayo na may malalim na dahilan kesa sayong binigla ng di mo inaasahan. alam mo kung bakit? kasi sya buong buhay nyang dadalhin yung sakit kasi nag Letgo sya kahit ayaw nya. oo andun na sa "kung mahal mo ipaglalaban mo" quit that **** concept. hindi all the time pag mahal mo ipaglalaban mo. hindi sapat yung mahal ka nya para manatili sya. maraming bagay ang hindi mo alam pero mas pinili nya talagang hindi ipaalam. Kase ayaw nya na ikaw ay mas masaktan pa. hindi mo alam kung gaano kasakit sa kanya yung iwan ka ng ganon ganon lang. pero mas masakit kung mananatili sya sayo kung ikasasama mo naman. hindi lahat ng nang iiwan sumuko na. hindi lahat ng nang iwan napagod na. Hindi lahat ng nang iwan wala ng pakealam. Hindi lahat ng nang iwan hindi nasaktan. at hindi lahat ng nang iwan hindi kana mahal kasi may mga bagay na mas mabuting bitawan na lang kesa panghawakan parin kahit alam natin na mag eend-up din ng parehas kayong masasaktan.
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We know the world is a crazy place and that is it easy to give up, throw in the towel. The idealism of youth gives way to the cynicism of middle age when we realize that despite our best efforts, change is very difficult. To be a parent and, in particular, to be a father....why bother? Some say fatherhood is driven by ego, the child providing the ultimate selfish representation of oneself. Others say driven by fear, the fear of mortality and the unconscious and genetic need to propagate and maintain our lineage, our species, our world. While both can be true, I believe the best manifestation of fatherhood is  driven by tikkun olam, a Jewish concept that we all have an obligation to better the world, to move it to a better state than currently exists. We do what we can when on this earth to love our family, friends, and be as righteous as this world will allow. Our genetic legacy is not nearly as important as our obligation to pass on what we know, have learned, have experienced, and enable our children to carry the mission to an always higher level. No matter what our belief in the afterlife, and what the future may hold we are here now in THIS life, and as long as we move the ball further and further in the right direction, there can be hope. Truly being a father, a good father, enables hope.  Maybe that is enough.
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Jun 19, 2011
Jun 19, 2011 at 7:17 AM UTC
Fatherhood is Hope
I've never understood the concept of being unique 'One of a kind' 'Irreplaceable' 'Nothing can take your place' Doesn't it all sound lonely? Every 'unique' person leaves a 'unique' void It's like trying to finish a puzzle with the wrong pieces In the end the piece ends up misshapen From years of trying to fit in someones unique place A place where they just don't belong
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Mar 9, 2015
Mar 9, 2015 at 6:39 PM UTC
'Unique'
This thing I thought I could grasp, Desperately I try to hold on to it, This thing I never had, I knew this illusion wouldn’t last, It disappears as soon as we reach for it, It’s as thin as the mountain air, For a moment we lie to ourselves, placing it securely and safely on a shelf. Even though it is a forced perception, A contrived illusion. Once we leave the room... As soon as we lock and bolt the door... we wont see it anymore. We never realize the freedom there is in letting go, We would be happier admitting this concept is completely fictitious. We could break this circular pattern, this cycle so vicious. I've spent too much time trying to hold it in my hands, Making myself the victim of my own laid out plans.
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Jun 10, 2018
Jun 10, 2018 at 6:48 PM UTC
Control
"sly wordplay, it glows, feels like a shimmering address, half warning and half blessing, really alive with cadence" read Kiki Dresden poetry^ once more into the sea trench divide, I dive to devise, Your provoking comment, demands my full attention, you divert me from struggling with ginger & clay, a contra concept that molds and enflames, yet strikes overtly sweet, it does not come so easy as this playful notion But your words deserve the attention immédiate atenção imediata that births this script, tumbling forth in an instantly instantaneously me student, you mistress~master, schooling me on sublimity subliminal, capturing the capering stylistic that bursts forth from within, that my fingertips provide, while my brain connives & connivers continuously you overlay analytics that never are to me revealed, the what and wherefore of the whom hiding within of the im~perpetuity impish essence of i m p ishness by charmingly doing me, not once, but many times better here a spillage: an observational ditty, dressed in a tux, most formally, to render the greatest wordplay ever invented t, the uniqueness of a simple thank you my favorite poem a forever for ever, the song that plys and plays me in the me so often, the linguists have banned the word repeatedly from my lexicon so in its stead, this all-in-one mighty steed (verb phrase, a noun, or an adjective depending on its usage) this phatic expression, here disguised in Portuguese, muito obrigado! muito obrigado! muito obrigado!                                                                     nml 5:39am nyc 10/4, 10/4
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Oct 4, 2025
Oct 4, 2025 at 5:44 AM UTC
Love of Wordplay for Kiki Dresden
"sly wordplay, it glows, feels like a shimmering address, half warning and half blessing, really alive with cadence" read Kiki Dresden poetry^ once more into the sea trench divide, I dive to devise, Your provoking comment, demands my full attention, you divert me from struggling with ginger & clay, a contra concept that molds and enflames, yet strikes overtly sweet, it does not come so easy as this playful notion But your words deserve the attention immédiate atenção imediata that births this script, tumbling forth in an instantly instantaneously me student, you mistress~master, schooling me on sublimity subliminal, capturing the capering stylistic that bursts forth from within, that my fingertips provide, while my brain connives & connivers continuously you overlay analytics that never are to me revealed, the what and wherefore of the whom hiding within of the im~perpetuity impish essence of i m p ishness by charmingly doing me, not once, but many times better here a spillage: an observational ditty, dressed in a tux, most formally, to render the greatest wordplay ever invented t, the uniqueness of a simple thank you my favorite poem a forever for ever, the song that plys and plays me in the me so often, the linguists have banned the word repeatedly from my lexicon so in its stead, this all-in-one mighty steed (verb phrase, a noun, or an adjective depending on its usage) this phatic expression, here disguised in Portuguese, muito obrigado! muito obrigado! muito obrigado!                                                                     nml 5:39am nyc 10/4, 10/4
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On whether technology has influenced the seeming rise in mental health issues: The concept of technology as separate than Nature is impossible to pin down, but to say that a lifetime of social pressures, advertising, television, and processed and genetically altered foodstuffs would not affect what the brain is used to, and what is was designed to do, is a non sequitur. Certainly an entirely separate set of influences also had negative consequences in the brains' of pre-man, but these were not of his own making, as he still lived in an organic environment, and therefore wasn't a part of the "feedback loop" we have going on with humans becoming the products of a man-made environment (one of the only things that sets us apart from most the animal kingdom). Either way, whatever you're doing you're getting better at it, so with the increase in time spent on the web and watching TV we are increasingly better at watching other people - being passive, non-accountable, constantly comparative and self-obsessed, impotent in light of the mass of information constantly flooding towards you - which the brain was not originally intended for. This seems obvious. So the fact that some people have things like crippling anxiety and OCD, or develop anti-social disorders and the like, seems like a logical result produced by a system (the brain) presented with new and inorganic conditions. On top of that, being a non-douche is naturally and evolutionarily based because it increases the likelihood that others will want to chilll'n'stuff and help you when you need it, but when transposed onto a crowded, fast-paced modernity it twists into something like flattery and competition to appear the most altruistic.
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Sep 18, 2012
Sep 18, 2012 at 11:45 AM UTC
Technology and Mental Health
On whether technology has influenced the seeming rise in mental health issues: The concept of technology as separate than Nature is impossible to pin down, but to say that a lifetime of social pressures, advertising, television, and processed and genetically altered foodstuffs would not affect what the brain is used to, and what is was designed to do, is a non sequitur. Certainly an entirely separate set of influences also had negative consequences in the brains' of pre-man, but these were not of his own making, as he still lived in an organic environment, and therefore wasn't a part of the "feedback loop" we have going on with humans becoming the products of a man-made environment (one of the only things that sets us apart from most the animal kingdom). Either way, whatever you're doing you're getting better at it, so with the increase in time spent on the web and watching TV we are increasingly better at watching other people - being passive, non-accountable, constantly comparative and self-obsessed, impotent in light of the mass of information constantly flooding towards you - which the brain was not originally intended for. This seems obvious. So the fact that some people have things like crippling anxiety and OCD, or develop anti-social disorders and the like, seems like a logical result produced by a system (the brain) presented with new and inorganic conditions. On top of that, being a non-douche is naturally and evolutionarily based because it increases the likelihood that others will want to chilll'n'stuff and help you when you need it, but when transposed onto a crowded, fast-paced modernity it twists into something like flattery and competition to appear the most altruistic.
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“You know, son… There’s a reason... God had a reason to give you broad shoulders -- It’s so you could carry this load… It’s so you could hold up all these boulders.” *“But these boulders aren’t my own, so why did He leave me them to hold?” I can hardly hold them now… surely I’ll collapse when I grow old.”* “You can’t think in terms of time, it is not a restriction by which He is bound… Instead you must think it as your cross, think of the thorns upon his crown. He will not notice the time; that’s a human concept we’ve created… Instead he’ll judge you by the size of the burdens with which you’re weighted.” *“Well, that’s a relief, but how can you be so sure? He’s never turned the night to day; I’ve never seen a disease he’s cured. Excuse me if I’m wrong, but I struggle to have faith When the world that he created has become this wretched place.”* “I can’t convince you that he’s real, I can’t show you how to feel. But if I showed you cold and silence, would you say that they were real? Yet these aren’t real things, simply the absence of others… So you must look to the voids, when you wish to discover.” *“I hope that you’re right. I hope he’s up there listening… I hope there’s golden gates I can admire, I hope that they’re still glistening. I hope God can take my hand, and tell me ‘Son, you’ve done well.’* I hope to God there’s a heaven – ‘cause I’ve been living in hell.”*
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Jun 13, 2013
Jun 13, 2013 at 10:48 AM UTC
"You know, son... There's a Reason..."
“You know, son… There’s a reason... God had a reason to give you broad shoulders -- It’s so you could carry this load… It’s so you could hold up all these boulders.” *“But these boulders aren’t my own, so why did He leave me them to hold?” I can hardly hold them now… surely I’ll collapse when I grow old.”* “You can’t think in terms of time, it is not a restriction by which He is bound… Instead you must think it as your cross, think of the thorns upon his crown. He will not notice the time; that’s a human concept we’ve created… Instead he’ll judge you by the size of the burdens with which you’re weighted.” *“Well, that’s a relief, but how can you be so sure? He’s never turned the night to day; I’ve never seen a disease he’s cured. Excuse me if I’m wrong, but I struggle to have faith When the world that he created has become this wretched place.”* “I can’t convince you that he’s real, I can’t show you how to feel. But if I showed you cold and silence, would you say that they were real? Yet these aren’t real things, simply the absence of others… So you must look to the voids, when you wish to discover.” *“I hope that you’re right. I hope he’s up there listening… I hope there’s golden gates I can admire, I hope that they’re still glistening. I hope God can take my hand, and tell me ‘Son, you’ve done well.’* I hope to God there’s a heaven – ‘cause I’ve been living in hell.”*
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Sometimes we wish... Wish to go back. Back to a time when everything was pure... Back to a time when everything was new... Back to a time where days were never blue. How could this thing... This perfect thing.... This perfect concept of thinking... This perfect imagination, become cramped with realities. With truths. With lies. We line up desperately, waiting... Waiting to get out... Waiting for the day we can do what we want... Waiting for the day we can leave. The more we grow, the more we know... The more we want to go back... Back to the day when we knew little and imagined more. Back to the day when sweets and hide and seek were all we needed.
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Jun 11, 2014
Jun 11, 2014 at 11:43 PM UTC
Taken For Granted
Inside the concept of time World within this world At the core, I realized No relevance of beginning or end Much we try to tame it Time is our imagination Past, present and future, transient Concept of being there When we change time after time
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Mar 11, 2015
Mar 11, 2015 at 1:34 AM UTC
It’s Time
Do you believe in love at first sight? It's a concept that's often portrayed in movies and stories. But maybe it's one of those things you have to experience to truly understand what it is. Let me tell you a story...
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Feb 25, 2013
Feb 25, 2013 at 2:07 PM UTC
Love at first sight ~ Intro
Something I never understand, (but ponder quite a lot) is how boys get away with things that girls simply cannot. A man can boast about his feats, and all pronounce him clever, but a woman is conceited if she speaks of her endeavor. And tell me, why is 'bachelor' a more attractive word than the female term of 'spinster' and the concept that's inferred? It's this gender inequality that renders women shamed by the ****** exploitation for which they're always blamed. Whilst men are given status for the women they've undressed, so after this, please tell me now; which gender has it best?
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Dec 11, 2013
Dec 11, 2013 at 6:10 PM UTC
Gender Wars
It still smells like human iron in your pool. There's a crack in the concrete where the bullet stopped. It still smells like human iron by the side of your pool, there's a stain. I still can't find where that bullet went. I always thought that your "love" of the higher life was overrated. Nobody ever talked about how great it is to be rich as much as you did. Even though you talked about it so quietly, most of the time. You spoke a lot about Daisies. I'm more of a Lillie type of person. There are a lot of people in New York, Gatsby. Too many people in New York. New York only needed you, Gatsby, but it looks like New York didn't want you anymore. That's not sad though, is it? Carraway's book is like gold.   I bookmarked eight of my favorite pages in it with yellow cigarettes.  I'm too afraid to smoke them. When your old mansion was bought I expected to see you as a ghost in it, you weren't there. That green light across the bay isn't there anymore, it's red now. I believe I'm sleeping in the same bedroom you once did. You aren't one of those ghosts that haunt a house, you haunt a human concept of want. I wish I'd never bought your house. I'm going to tear this place down.  Along with Nick's old place next door. The memories here in these empty, furniture filled rooms, are unbearable at best. Of course they're not my memories, but I'd be a familiar person to you if you knew me. I smash and break things, and then retreat back into my money and vast carelessness. Farewell Jay Gatsby.
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Mar 13, 2014
Mar 13, 2014 at 3:01 PM UTC
An open letter to Jay Gatsby (The Great Gatsby)
It still smells like human iron in your pool. There's a crack in the concrete where the bullet stopped. It still smells like human iron by the side of your pool, there's a stain. I still can't find where that bullet went. I always thought that your "love" of the higher life was overrated. Nobody ever talked about how great it is to be rich as much as you did. Even though you talked about it so quietly, most of the time. You spoke a lot about Daisies. I'm more of a Lillie type of person. There are a lot of people in New York, Gatsby. Too many people in New York. New York only needed you, Gatsby, but it looks like New York didn't want you anymore. That's not sad though, is it? Carraway's book is like gold.   I bookmarked eight of my favorite pages in it with yellow cigarettes.  I'm too afraid to smoke them. When your old mansion was bought I expected to see you as a ghost in it, you weren't there. That green light across the bay isn't there anymore, it's red now. I believe I'm sleeping in the same bedroom you once did. You aren't one of those ghosts that haunt a house, you haunt a human concept of want. I wish I'd never bought your house. I'm going to tear this place down.  Along with Nick's old place next door. The memories here in these empty, furniture filled rooms, are unbearable at best. Of course they're not my memories, but I'd be a familiar person to you if you knew me. I smash and break things, and then retreat back into my money and vast carelessness. Farewell Jay Gatsby.
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Off the train I hit the streets and start laughing. This is ridiculous, incomprehensible. How can innumerable bipeds have individual inner lives. Why are they doing what they’re doing? I have no answer New York City but to also go about my business in this case prepare for surgery, survival. But why survive with so many exact replicas to replace me? A swarm of ants or hive of bees, social organisms they’re called, climbing over each other, avoiding bumping and amazingly making way, anticipating the sudden turns and straight paths of others, strangers but brothers, sisters incubating, the cells of a small ***** nodes of a single semi-conscious organism. The concept of a higher power that cares for me is also risible yet how else can I explain the surgeon and his team, robots and magnetic resonance imaging machines, all primed and trained to save my life. They are not particularly interested in what I do with my time. I am immediately in love with the Irish brogue of the head nurse, the Indian skin of the physician’s assistant. The long extraordinarily thin fingers of the famous surgeon. All mine to savor (and the other cancer patients). Despair, lose all hope that’s what the sign says at the gates of hell and at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center the sign says Be kind to our customers who are waiting and suffering. Yesterday’s suicidal thoughts: the mind is a clever servant, insufferable master. Therefore, meditate on this: absolute need, dependence on the Other. I still like Hombre, The Shootist and Ulzana’s Raid but realize those dead heroes were subordinate to society: the gun manufacturers who armed them. Thus, I go for cancer tests, accepting, not predicting results. Hero accepting help. A torrential rain following five days of flooding, tornadoes out west busting up wooden towns all because too many of us are hoarding plastic, herding electrons. None of us know how it will end, what the outcome will be (of our surgery). The best that can be said is Don’t forget to breathe. And you might as well believe in that higher power.
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Mar 5, 2019
Mar 5, 2019 at 6:00 AM UTC
Upper Manhattan Medical Group
Off the train I hit the streets and start laughing. This is ridiculous, incomprehensible. How can innumerable bipeds have individual inner lives. Why are they doing what they’re doing? I have no answer New York City but to also go about my business in this case prepare for surgery, survival. But why survive with so many exact replicas to replace me? A swarm of ants or hive of bees, social organisms they’re called, climbing over each other, avoiding bumping and amazingly making way, anticipating the sudden turns and straight paths of others, strangers but brothers, sisters incubating, the cells of a small ***** nodes of a single semi-conscious organism. The concept of a higher power that cares for me is also risible yet how else can I explain the surgeon and his team, robots and magnetic resonance imaging machines, all primed and trained to save my life. They are not particularly interested in what I do with my time. I am immediately in love with the Irish brogue of the head nurse, the Indian skin of the physician’s assistant. The long extraordinarily thin fingers of the famous surgeon. All mine to savor (and the other cancer patients). Despair, lose all hope that’s what the sign says at the gates of hell and at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center the sign says Be kind to our customers who are waiting and suffering. Yesterday’s suicidal thoughts: the mind is a clever servant, insufferable master. Therefore, meditate on this: absolute need, dependence on the Other. I still like Hombre, The Shootist and Ulzana’s Raid but realize those dead heroes were subordinate to society: the gun manufacturers who armed them. Thus, I go for cancer tests, accepting, not predicting results. Hero accepting help. A torrential rain following five days of flooding, tornadoes out west busting up wooden towns all because too many of us are hoarding plastic, herding electrons. None of us know how it will end, what the outcome will be (of our surgery). The best that can be said is Don’t forget to breathe. And you might as well believe in that higher power.
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Is love at first sight something real? Or is it a concept created by media? Is it just an idea to keep us looking? Keep us searching like pirates for gold? Is love even real? Or did everyone just settle for what they could get? How will I ever know if I only see it in movies? Did they spread it around like an idea also? Did they use it to make people keep hope? To make people realize that there's nothing worth this life but emotional turmoil and endless working for a societal outcome? Maybe there is love at first sight maybe there is love but how do you teach your children that when all they see is pain?
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Mar 21, 2013
Mar 21, 2013 at 10:22 PM UTC
Love at First Sight
A Birthday Poem for Sally B: what-matters-can-neither-be-created-or-destroyed ~~~ the principal thing about principles, like the concept of time, that in time, with time, they come to reflect our immutable essence's own best reflection, come only, round or square come only, too little too late come, too much too soon so the simpler, the better, so the matter of what really matters needs capture in some capsulated summary form, a daily vitamin for the soul so I thank you for the gift of your birthday, the anibersaryo of a day of naissance, this one solo, kakaiba, among the many, a present presented to the world *so on this particular day, we must thank you for the wonder of wonder that justifies existence, for what truly matters cannot be created or destroyed, and your matter, mass, your presence's  Grace upon this earth, graces the hearts of thousands, today and forevermore this is what matters and can never be recreated, can never be destroyed... ~~~
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Oct 24, 2015
Oct 24, 2015 at 6:15 AM UTC
A Birthday Poem for Sally B.: what-matters-can-neither-be-created-or-destroyed
I like my women like I like my flowers, down to Earth, and she’s rooted to the concept. From her orchard, orchids cry out that she’s a beauty. A beauty as bold as baby’s breath but she’s not soft-spoken. It’s written in her blue-eyed, irises that she’s a stargazer with a heart made of marigolds, laced together by Queen Anne. She sprouted out of that cracked cement with tulips curled to the cosmos, greeting morning glories with a stellar smile, that I fell for like a shooting star. She’s a bloomed-beauty that’s bound to this Earth, and well, I’d pick her up any day. © Matthew Harlovic
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Mar 24, 2014
Mar 24, 2014 at 12:09 AM UTC
Bloomed Beauty (04/24/14)
you sowed this **** into my brain... why do you even "think" that i want... you?              i, want your children... the meme-mutation is what i'm after...    and there are plenty of useful idiots to allow me to process the intermediating processes for: the sigma, "accomplishment"; which is unlike what infected mushroom's -   trance party track sounds like, outside of my own head. why do these people even think i'm after their genes of memes?                 i want, their infantile replicas...                  i want to craft a worthwhile curiosity, on a canvas, that that they call their gene replicas, children, and... like why called me... easy meat..                  einfachfleisch... what?     i'm not here for these news' anchors... i'm here for their children... nibble nibble nibble chew chow cow tow and main...             prawn crackers... ah... news anchors are easy targets...     slightly pointless 20x bulls eye honing devices... it's their children...      i want their children...     i want their cognition to become replica of wheelchair bound infirmaries; why?     oh... you know... football and wrestling, given the Qatar investment plan... the whole sport "thing" became a tad bit boring...   had to resort to secondary sources of entertainment; children of news anchors? the secondary, "last", albeit, the best resort;    schindler...   required a list,      to become reincarnated... and revive a **** a heartlessness of an reincarnation     anomaly:   i.e.: what, a limited number of people, to begin with?!      so the rest is primitive "a.i."? now i'm starting to think... thank the blue indians for their culinary innovations... but when it comes to their theology?                            **** 'em; did i advocate that? if i did... within what pronoun guarantee of advocacy? playing the grammar card...         which pronoun? the plural singular, or the singular plural, or the gender neutral?    thank you jean-paul sartre,      for the...  "i"... i simply love, this revised concept of a unit...            the revision clinging to the royalist affirmation of pronouns... i.e. 1 would say... so...          and 1... would, so, will, do so. **** the pronoun debate in Canadian politics...    if i have to resort to this? then i will... like your plain citizen...      may "i" speak within the confines, of the royal, one, given the example:    one might suppose... to be the former, and the current, highest, etiquette? gender neutrality of pronouns... last time i checked... one was never allowed pronoun stature... why not address this conundrum, to begin with?! oh, right... too late... too many loud mouths without a guillotine... so, basically, a cow fart's worth of argumentation.
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Aug 2, 2018
Aug 2, 2018 at 11:51 PM UTC
I non Q
you sowed this **** into my brain... why do you even "think" that i want... you?              i, want your children... the meme-mutation is what i'm after...    and there are plenty of useful idiots to allow me to process the intermediating processes for: the sigma, "accomplishment"; which is unlike what infected mushroom's -   trance party track sounds like, outside of my own head. why do these people even think i'm after their genes of memes?                 i want, their infantile replicas...                  i want to craft a worthwhile curiosity, on a canvas, that that they call their gene replicas, children, and... like why called me... easy meat..                  einfachfleisch... what?     i'm not here for these news' anchors... i'm here for their children... nibble nibble nibble chew chow cow tow and main...             prawn crackers... ah... news anchors are easy targets...     slightly pointless 20x bulls eye honing devices... it's their children...      i want their children...     i want their cognition to become replica of wheelchair bound infirmaries; why?     oh... you know... football and wrestling, given the Qatar investment plan... the whole sport "thing" became a tad bit boring...   had to resort to secondary sources of entertainment; children of news anchors? the secondary, "last", albeit, the best resort;    schindler...   required a list,      to become reincarnated... and revive a **** a heartlessness of an reincarnation     anomaly:   i.e.: what, a limited number of people, to begin with?!      so the rest is primitive "a.i."? now i'm starting to think... thank the blue indians for their culinary innovations... but when it comes to their theology?                            **** 'em; did i advocate that? if i did... within what pronoun guarantee of advocacy? playing the grammar card...         which pronoun? the plural singular, or the singular plural, or the gender neutral?    thank you jean-paul sartre,      for the...  "i"... i simply love, this revised concept of a unit...            the revision clinging to the royalist affirmation of pronouns... i.e. 1 would say... so...          and 1... would, so, will, do so. **** the pronoun debate in Canadian politics...    if i have to resort to this? then i will... like your plain citizen...      may "i" speak within the confines, of the royal, one, given the example:    one might suppose... to be the former, and the current, highest, etiquette? gender neutrality of pronouns... last time i checked... one was never allowed pronoun stature... why not address this conundrum, to begin with?! oh, right... too late... too many loud mouths without a guillotine... so, basically, a cow fart's worth of argumentation.
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