The Idea-smithy

She said, “I miss sitting next to you.”
He said, “I miss sleeping next to you.”
She turned away, thinking “That’s all it ever was to him. All those conversations, all those memories, he never was listening or even being himself with me.”
He stood there, staring into thin air as always, thinking “She never really understood, did [...]

Some days I’m so weary with the constant struggles.
Fight for a seat, run to be on time, fight to inch forward, fight for your rights.
Fight for time, fight for space, fight for your reason to be.
Fight to be yourself.
There are times I’m so tired, so bone-weary, so exhausted that I am suspended, zombie-like in time [...]

We live
We awaken
We run
We work
We worry
We laugh
We frown
We jostle
We cram
We breathe…just about
We hear
We gape
We jump
We run
We carry
We drip….blood, sweat and tears
We walk
We sleep
We awaken
We survive
……………….
We awaken
We run

She thinks I’m some kind of a tramp for having had more than one boyfriend. She’s willing to let a 22-year-old friendship go to hell over it. She’s judging me. And I’m falling woefully short of her exacting standards.
Well, she falls short of mine too. Her lack of ambition, lack of desire to do something [...]