I’ll forgive you for thinking that by how much time I spend planning for everything, anticipating whatever pitfall imaginable and counter-strategizing all that, the things I choose to do go as smoothly as I intended them to. Because they don’t. Sure, I’m well-known for brooding, for weighing things for far too long and theorizing conspiracies [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Sorry, but I can’t help the thought bubble
Posted in short is best, tagged acceptance, follow-up, friendship, hypocrisy, random on January 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
…though I guess it’s hypocrisy, too, to say we can make it alone – our haters and dissidents be damned – that keeping our own identity is far more important than acceptance, that we wouldn’t let it get into our heads, when in the end, we’ll clamor for attention, watch American Idol with the fangirls, [...]
“No, Miley, you can’t have the best of both worlds”
Posted in short is best, tagged decisions, sacrifices on January 22, 2009 | 3 Comments »
You know the irony here? It’s when people put so much emphasis on not wanting to compromise, when you know for sure that the thing in this life is, you’ll always have to sacrifice something. As far as I’m concerned, sit too long in the bleachers and the moment passes you by. Keep obsessing about [...]
The Misplaced Preposition
Posted in as a college student, as a metaphor guy, as an obscure commentator, tagged this is not what you think it is on January 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On cruder times, I would have asked you the age old question; the one that goes ‘what do you do when you find yourself positioned squarely against an idea – do you speak out and hope that it would matter whilst running the risk of being seen as some insufferable killjoy, or do you keep [...]
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