The only emotion that I want to feel right now is despair, but I think I’ve become more resilient – more vaguely hopeful, as if the cumulonimbus descended and everything beyond my immediate field of vision turned hazy and indistinct, and therefore possibly better. — They did not just expect me to play soldier; I …
Tripping Over Ourselves
Every mistake mints us into the people we are. We feel fire, fire that rushes up, all-consuming, from the jowls to the forehead; we hear thunder, unexpectedly and frighteningly self-manufactured; we experience the painful catharsis of realizing the thing that’s happened and what we had done to cause it. And in that moment of truth …
The Future
It’s always there, isn’t it? Right in front of you; that cloudy mirror, forever reflecting more light than image, more hope than cold reality. We hurt our eyes squinting to get a glimpse of how we’d look, what we would’ve accomplished – but at the same time we cautiously draw a veil of illusion over …
Suddenly, Responsibility
From the position I’ve always assumed, assiduously and rather inconspicuously behind the vanguard of sharp minds and keener ambitious, it seems like a lifetime’s work is required to finally transcend that delimiting reassurance of being merely ‘better than average’, straddling the line between obscurity and celebrated brilliance. I am in fact fond of this liberating …