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@hypergraphic-confessions
You are the knife I turn inside myself every night knowing well enough that the knife is no longer in my hands.
This is love. This, my dear, is love.
~ Franz Kafka (Letters to Milena)
January 10th
Grammatically (im)perfect ! Infinite souls vying for birth. Which are chosen to inhabit this earth! ? A life unwritten the path unknown. The road we choose, or the one we’re shown? . The end preordained, alone in the dark. All writing is done, but the final punctuation mark.
"I was a boy who loved a woman like a little girl"
— Ron Pope, A Drop In the Ocean
Dear alma mater,
In between the sunsets and sunrises, is life.
Anecdote
It is the sweet summer of ‘08, you can hear the chirps and chirrups of innocent souls in the corridor coming from the walls of classroom 3-B, where Bindiya ma’am proposed an innocuous question to have the students interact and speak in English. She asks the 8 year olds, “What do you want to become when you grow up?” Among the cries of ‘Prime Minister’, ‘President of India’ and ‘Astronaut’, you can hear another popular answer that goes ‘A good human’ or ‘A good person’. The naive optimism is so touching that it carves itself deeply into the memories of 8-year old Shruti and her friends from 3-B.
10 years into their future, the dreams of becoming the Prime Minister or President of India have taken the forms of becoming well-educated engineers, doctors or lawyers, holistic designers or commerce geeks. One dream that still rings common within, however, is the innate want to become better, kinder, more honest, more giving as people. They go out into the world with the belief that people are good, and our common goal is to do good. However, somewhere down the line, the vision blurs. Selfish greed and endless desire for money and power settle themselves into a corner in the innocent hearts, and like a virus attack every inch of goodness and every cell of conscience that’s left within.
These educated adults metamorph into the roles of leaders of various domains. Malpractice looms large, conscience shrinks smaller and smaller. They become what they see. They become what they’re taught to be. But who taught them to cheat? Who taught them to bend the law? There are few of 3-B, who still believe in doing good and doing the right things, no matter the costs. Yet, when they truly see the world with untainted lenses, when they see the bad people and the bad practices they have to overcome, stop and change, all hope feels lost. The naive optimism that had settled itself in the heart of the child cries tears that define no cause and still ache foolishly and terribly.
Yet still, I refuse to give up. This is my country. This is my world. These are my people, plants and animals. I have to be the change I want to see. I have to try, even if it takes a lifetime and more.
Do not despair, there is still hope.
‘Love’ makes much more sense to me now
“Just like that. From a hundred miles an hour to asleep in a nanosecond. I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the empty bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”
John Green, Looking For Alaska (via shades0fc00l)
I’m going through people’s favorite books and it’s fascinating
ca·thar·sis
“Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
You.
I would describe to you the setting of where I was, and the time when this happened but it’s all a dizzy memory; not because I have forgotten the details but because the details of what it was, how it happened, the outside and the inside, the thoughts, dreams and reality, all seemed to blend into one consciousness.
The night felt long and a never ending peace seemed to possess us. When dawn arrived, for the first time, I was dissappointed at the sun for having risen. The day break meant our long separation.
Sometime during that long night, I held your arm with both of mine wrapped around it. Head on your shoulder, I did not know how I let down my walls and let loose my inhibitions so easily around you. In murmurs and silence, even in my sleep, I seemed to be talking to you throughout the night. I was wrapped in several jackets, yet the only warmth seemed to be of your body against mine and your hands shrouding mine.
As we sat on the bench overlooking the lights beyond the river, that never seem to be lost from my sight, and the darkness of the grounds around us, there was a glowing radiance surrounding, an aura as I had never known. I had never known what it is to like someone, to love, to be absorbed in them as a whole, but in those moments it all felt naturally coming to me.
I dream of us sitting on that bench again, another long night but arrival of the morning cannot and does not separate us. Somewhere in the middle of the long night, when track of time has been lost, I tell you about the boy who tried to touch me. And I tell you about the time when your absence made me feel unreasonably angry and vulnerable. I tell you about the time when the soft music made me wish you were there, holding me lovingly by my waist, unlike that boy that time. I tell you about how I was aware how unreasonable I was being then, but that didn’t help, at all. I tell you about the time when my oldest bestfriend came to meet me, and of all the people, you were who I wished to introduce her to and tell her about. In my head, I say all of these things to you, while we sit at the bench. I see a faint shape of a smile and I sense you blushing deep. You seem to hold me closer, lock me tighter around yourself, and you whisper that I am the most precious thing in your life, that you’d never want to let go of me. A calming peace seemed to have taken over me.
Now I understand what you meant. What you meant when you said it’s important for people to confess their love, there’s no hope in waiting and yearning when you could happily have all that you ever wanted.
Bonus:
Has anyone told you you sleep like a baby? Curled up and asked if you could hold my hand in yours, that’s how you went to sleep. I couldn’t get more used to it; never have I seen anything or met anyone as adorable as you.
Every part of me betrayed me when it came to you, how the butterflies did flutter…
I’ll let this be an incomplete story, just like you let ours be
Equals
Unfortunately, under the moon and the stars, We’re all the same. You, with guns in your hand and prayers on your tongue, To the Almighty: Pleading Allah, praising Him You, who calls upon the death of the innocent, And I, with spilled ink and seized lips, With mouths open aghast, From watching the young die at your feet, Begging for mercy, begging for life. Under the moon and the stars, We’re all the same. You, with your pretty eyes and perfect hair With prodigious marvels to your name, I, just another being, We may be different but all the same, Seeking peace and satisfaction, while setting individual goals Hitherto paving our ways; Under the moon and the stars, We’re all the same. We’re all looked upon with the same Eye. We’re all heading to oblivion.
A poem begins with a lump in the throat.
Robert Frost
How many things would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
Now go, do.
Sweet as honey,
the memories of those good feelings,
These tears are acid on my skin,
As laughters turn to pain.
Always believed in myself,
In my strength and sensibility,
Yet,
something inside of me hurts.
There’s a void there
Where a heart was,
Memories of bitter feelings
I’ve forgotton their origin
Forgotten in entirety
All I remember now are
All the goodbyes I said time and again
Yet,
I never truly let go