He picked up his cellphone and started scrolling through the contacts he had built up over the years. Reaching her name, his heart skipped a beat. With his finger on the call button, he sighed, and put his cellphone back upon the table from which it had been taken. He had intended to call her.... Continue Reading →
Making Sense of You
Just when I thought one and one made two, You added into the equation "you". Making a loop, pulling it taut, You entangle my life into a giant knot. I'm waiting for the day you'd tell me 'no', Tell me to leave, tell me to go. But you always treat me with ambiguity, Dowse me... Continue Reading →
Before Sunset
I watched the movie Before Sunset today. I had never heard of this movie before I watched it, and therefore went into it without any expectations. The movie was surprisingly good, and it ranks right alongside Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind as my favourite movie of all time. A fantastic film if you're into... Continue Reading →
A Pendulum on Wheels
My life is like a pendulum on wheels, trudging along. When the pendulum swings back, it feels as if life has stalled, the swinging back negating the effects the forward-moving motion of the wheels provide. Sometimes the swinging back is so quick, however, that it feels as if life may actually be moving backward. When... Continue Reading →
The Yo-Yo
I tried ignoring her, pushing her away. Pretended not to care, thought I might Stop liking her as much as I did. But like a yo-yo she always returned. One time I pushed her away too fast, Too hard, and she snapped back And nearly took my fingers off. Upon friends' advice, I decided to... Continue Reading →
Ice
They both sat in awkward silence at the café. It had been ages since they'd last seen each other, and it was only through a compulsive e-mail he had penned that the both of them were there. She had been reluctant, but he persuaded her, telling her that even if the meeting was awkward, as... Continue Reading →
The Guru
The self-help guru walked up to me and asked, “what would you do if you could do anything, anything at all, and knew you couldn’t fail?” I looked at him, thought for a bit, and shrugged. “How can you not know?” he asked. “What would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail?” My face... Continue Reading →
The Naming Dilemma
I was just about to write about an experience I had at Coffee Bean today. I was going to write on how the person who took my order made a funny comment on my name. After I told him my name was "Don", he said something along the lines of "Don? The Godfather?" I was... Continue Reading →
By Concentrating
By concentrating on other activities, one can more or less forget about the longing one feels for another.
Commitment
As she walked away, she looked back at him and saw how sad he was. She had just rejected him, and it was through no fault of his. It was, ironically, that he was almost too good a catch. She felt that she wasn't ready for a long-term commitment, and he wasn't the type you'd... Continue Reading →
