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Parentheses - An interruption of continuity; an interval.
"This is one of the things I wasn't prepared for — the amount of unfilled time, the long parentheses of nothing" (Margaret Atwood).
“For every period of time when you exist, short or long, there is a temporal part of you that exists only then. And for any temporal parts of any objects whatsoever, there is a larger object made up of just those parts.” - John Locke
"Every time I enunciate 'I', even in my thought, an identity is assumed, and this identity is itself not simple, but a figure of a complex gathering of personal and impersonal histories, texts, discourses, beliefs, cultural assumptions, and ideological interpellations...it is not an artifact but a process." - Richard Dyer
Sunday, June 21, 2009
i remember, when i was very young, i would smile at everyone i saw.
you wouldn't believe it, but i'd plaster my face against the car window while my dad drove, smiling at everyone outside.
i did so because i chanced upon a piece of advice which went like this, "smiling at someone will brighten up their day".
but hardly anyone smiled back, or even noticed.
it takes a lot to be an idealist.
~
sometimes
even in the company of many, i can feel very lonely.
yet
when i'm alone (walking home or something like that)
i feel as if everyone/thing is my friend.
you wouldn't believe it, but i'd plaster my face against the car window while my dad drove, smiling at everyone outside.
i did so because i chanced upon a piece of advice which went like this, "smiling at someone will brighten up their day".
but hardly anyone smiled back, or even noticed.
it takes a lot to be an idealist.
~
sometimes
even in the company of many, i can feel very lonely.
yet
when i'm alone (walking home or something like that)
i feel as if everyone/thing is my friend.