January 2012
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December 2011
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The System
People blame society for placing them in the situations they are in, what many of us lack is the continued will power to follow what was so clear to us when we were young. Youth holds an abundance of ideas and opportunities that fizzle out into mediocrity when The System curls its slimy tentacles around your throat, heaving you onto the conveyor belt we accept as life. Those among us that may...
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“The unexamined life is one not worth living”
“He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.”
– Philip Roth - extract from “American Patoral” (via myfuckingthinktank)
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June 2011
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“my body is a cage, that keeps me from dancing with the one i love, but my mind holds the key”
dance like you want to, like you do at home when you just feel the music, it’s all in your head what other people are thinking about you, and most of the time they are just jealous that they don’t have enough courage to get up there and dance how they feel as well.
prove to...
April 2011
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February 2011
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Cogito Ergo Sum
The man knelt down softly next to the grave. Softly he muttered a few words that were inaudible to the emaciated girl watching. How did she come to be here? Why was she following this man and that irresistible pull to the grave?
As the girls’ mind became clouded with these thoughts, she was oblivious to the man. Whose hands were weathered and leathery, but intangible at the same time? He turned...
“existence, well what does it matter? I exist on the best terms that I can, the...”
– Ian Curtis, Joy Division
July 2010
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Story with no ending
The rain fell softly against my cheeks, almost like delicate snowflakes floating down. I hurried in the direction of my house, for fear of catching a cold. I had almost reached my destination when something odd caught my eye.
Down a small alley there was a man. He was dressed all in black and his pale skin shone against his clothes. The man looked quite young, perhaps in his late twenties. He was...
"you can't always get what you want"
you can’t always get what you want, seems to always come on at the most appropriate times. This can be depressing at times, but always reminds me that even thought that this time, I haven’t gotten what I wanted but if I keep trying then something will prevail. Atleast this is what I tell myself.
Its hard to think something good will happen when all this shit keeps being hurled at you...