Thursday, 28 April 2011

with arms outstretched we give a little love.


The sun, the air, the sea. I breathe beauty, I feel fine. I am alive and light and smiling. It's amazing, the power of the blazing sun beating down on skin, welcoming. Life is nice when you feel alive. I used to aspire to being a professional dancer, on the stage, on the road; travelling and performing and living life to the fullest. You make me feel safe and alive and happy, and I don't know what I'd do without you. You make me believe that anything is possible and make me want to give and love with all I have.

Wednesday, 30 March 2011

happy endings are only in the books we read


It's hard to say goodbye. Packing up lives and storing them away as memories. It's unfair how change is how we all live. I just wish I had a friend more than anything. I want someone to have a laugh with, to stay up all night watching movies with. I long for adventures right now.

The weather's been amazing the past two weeks. I just long for the days when I used to have all the time in the world; when I used to get bored at the lack of much to do. I want to make mud pies and forts in the garden. I want the summer breeze and warm sun on my back. I want a friend to share things with, the smell of sun lotion and the ice cream van pulling up in every street with its annoying but rightful melody. I long for the times when we used to go rollerskating along the streets, when I was terrified of falling and scrapes and bruises. I want adventures and walks along streams, trying to pass over the rocks. Late nights on the lawn, the air between my toes as we swing. I don't know if things can ever be the same.

Tuesday, 29 March 2011

if the ending is the start, are you ready? on your marks

Everything comes to an end sooner or later. It just all goes by so quickly though, it's amazing how last October feels like it was only a month or two ago. I had my first exam today, I'm pretty sure I've passed it but i've got two more major ones in May which I've got to get my head down for. I'm 21 soon and it feels like I was only just 18 last year. I hate growing a year older, but I mean, this time I do feel more accomplished. Still lost, but definitely like I've got somewhere with something at least. And i'm also okay with not being in a relationship. It's cool though, I know I deserve much better. He just doesn't want to admit he only wants me to use me, and so that he's not alone. I feel stronger in general, though tired. I seem to have lost my iron tablets... that may be why. Only one more (revision) lecture tomorrow, a mock on Thursday and then it's officially the end of year one. I hate endings, but it's the start of something new. Summer's all about work and getting somewhere, I won't even have much time to think about me.. hopefully.

Also, been watching a lot of ER (from S6 onwards, Abby. Luby and Carby! haha.) And I love Blip Blip Bleep!

Wednesday, 23 March 2011

fragile things


Will power will get me through this. I have a mock exam tomorrow, and I think I'm going to be able to pass; at least I have a few more days before the actual exam. Then there's the packing and whatnot & I'll be heading back home a week tomorrow. It's a sad feeling, time has flown by.. So much, so many things and people and laughter and sadness. It's practically zoomed by. And now not only distance and silence is keeping apart, but soon, other things will come in the way. I don't like letting go, I mean, I never imagined it would be like this. I thought you'd leave my heart, my mind, me. I don't know if we can be friends one day...

The weather's been amazingly warm, and the sun's been out. It's bright on the outside, but it's not how I feel on the inside. Friends, nowhere to be seen. You, not even existing anymore. It's not the way things should be. And I don't know how to change it. I'm worried that your words are going to haunt me sooner or later. I'm fighting against it now, but there will come a point. Fragile on the inside.

Light, light,
bright as stars in the daytime.
Fragile flight,
careful, careful, careful.

Tuesday, 22 March 2011

words can break us, but words are all we have to live


I don't like writing. It's rather funny, I tend to write and get creative only when I'm sad / in a relationship. None of that matters though, I'm okay, other than feeling a millions times sleepy (probably because of the heat.) The school year is coming to an end, and then time will move on and different things will happen, change will occur. There is an infinite amount of change, and I want to welcome it with timid arms.


Spring is finally here,
and now you are gone.
I train my mind not to wander,
forgotten, forgotten, forgotten.

Tuesday, 15 March 2011

i never should have said that the books you read were all i loved you for

I'm finding it hard to cope without you here. I need some help, I want someone to talk to. I wish I had a true friend. Why can I only talk to you about these things; my thoughts, my feelings? I'm ill, self-destructive and you wish I was better and I know.

I wondered which was harder, in the end. The act of telling, or who you told it to. Or maybe if, when you finally got it out, the story was really all that mattered.
Sarah Dessen

Friday, 11 March 2011

come on my love, we've got oceans to sail

If falling were easy, we'd never take the jump that could change everything that we are and everything that we believe in. We're taking that jump and falling fast, hoping that we don't crash to the ground. You've been gone a few days and will be gone for a few more. I have missed you terribly, and I hope you've missed me too. I hope there'll be a chance for us again down the road. We're figuring things out that matter the most and letting go of the things that don't. I hope I matter to you.

Come on my love, we've got oceans to sail.

Wednesday, 9 March 2011

the lovely bones

"I wasn't lost, or frozen, or gone... I was alive; I was alive in my own perfect world."

"I was in the blue horizon between heaven and earth. The days were unchanging and every night I dream the same dream. The smell of damp earth. The scream no one heard. The sound of my heart beating like a hammer against cloth and I would hear them calling, the voices of the dead. I wanted to follow them to find a way out but I would always come back to the same door. And I was afraid. I knew if I went in there I would never come out."


“These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections - sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent - that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life.”

- Susie Salmon

Monday, 7 March 2011

a bird in a cage, chained to the sky


A fluttering heartbeat, a sign of spring, a little warmth and a kiss on the lips.


Walks by the reservoir, looking at getting away. We're not trapped anymore, the ropes around our ankles are starting to loosen. The merry chirps we now sing bring us hope and impatience to fly, to move and swoon about like no one cares. We're basking in the fresh air, the lovely sunshine and the puddles of yesterday. We're not chained down or kept apart any longer, or so we think.

Sunday, 6 March 2011

there is nothing to fear but fear itself


Money can't buy us happiness. I had an amazing weekend full of well deserved rest (and a few treats!) The sun really uplifts me, it's quite inspiring to go on long walks by lakes and resevoirs. The glimmering sun on the still, cool water and smiles as far as the eye can see. I like better weather, it gives me a sense of hope. Hope that I am not being left behind or forgotten, that I am not static or unkind. Everything is better when it gets warmer, I just need more of this weather to occur now. It's sort of rejuvenated me, I'm hoping I can get on and finish my work and revise for my exams. Mum says she's looking at Prague for a week away for my birthday; something special will be good. I also saw The King's Speech, Colin Firth acted amazingly; and the film itself was pure brilliant. The ending note was that we all create fears that don't really exist, it's all in our minds and we are the only people who can resolve them. We are the only ones stopping ourselves from getting further. It was all quite interesting and inspiring. Plus pizza and mum making my favourite foods was great. I shall put up a post just for The King's Speech soon.

Wednesday, 2 March 2011

a destination into the sky, fly like a bird, fly.

I want to escape into the infinite vast earth. I want to get lost; fly away from consumerism and love, and responsibilities and trivialities. I want to be in nature, where survival is the only thing that matters. I am a creature of the dark; I have some bright inside, but my dark wins over in the end. I wish the beauty of the world could keep me going, I wish there were always a clear reason to stay. I blindly keep going, keep hoping.. I don't believe, I don't have faith. I just am, and I just want to be. I need to breathe and be. I want to get away, disappear from the world and it's savage people for a bit. That will help. That will bring me a new perspective. Travelling always does, that's probably why I'm still standing now. It's all a battle, really. Love, pain, sex, power, money, resources, war, murder, politics, music, carnivalesque. It is what it is and will always be, no matter who is here and who is not. No matter who tries to speak up, who tries to give a voice to change or who sits meekly, passing years by as quickly as they come. Is evolution at an end? I wish I could stop thinking so much. I want to sleep right now, sleep is the only thing I love about life right now.

Why is everybody so obsessed?
Money can't buy us happiness
Can we all slow down and enjoy right now?
Guarantee we'll be feeling alright.
It's not about the money, money, money
We don't need your money, money, money
We just wanna make the world dance,
Forget about the Price Tag.

Tuesday, 1 March 2011

your love is gonna drown


Running through forests, past streams and wild creatures; freeing yourself, running away from it all. Perhaps you want some solitude, isolation can be good for the soul. And you find an old house with the paint dulling, the windows tarnished and nails sticking out from the walls. But you call it your home, make it your own and all in an instant you forget where you came from. It's nice to get lost in the wild, running away to a house on a field in the middle of nowhere, where no one can tell you what to do or how to be. The sounds of birds chirping and the wind through the wild, rugged grass surround you. One of the streams you passed along the way can be heard if there is no motion outside. Trees, and flowers half in bloom keep you company.
It is all more or less like living in a dream or a fairytale. Until one night soon after you moved in to your new humble abode, you wake up in a cold sweat soon after dawn. A moment of jolting terror as the windows sweep open when the wind howls and the silent storm rages in your heart. You realise you are lost and alone, cut off from everyone and everything; even the sound of your own beating heart. There is no one laying beside you in your king sized comfy mattress and it is all grey and doomed. Warm, wet tears trickle in streams down your face, like the ones you passed on your journey to nowhere. You were trying to escape and hide, but there is no hiding now. It's just you here, alone, now.


Find your heart again, love.

Sorrow drips into your heart through a pinhole
Just like a faucet that leaks and there is comfort in the sound
But while you debate half empty or half full
It slowly rises, your love is gonna drown.

Monday, 28 February 2011

despair in bloom


How will you make me happy again? I'm in such despair; a death, dying, disease. Can love conquer the destination of life? Everything is questionable and although you're opening up, I am closing my walls down further. I don't know how to tell you things, I wish I said the truth more often. I keep thinking, wondering; getting pulled down by the harsh blows of the tides of my thoughts. I achieve, but barely. I'm a magnificent mess. I just want a soft kiss, a tender embrace. I want some bliss.

I want to be summer
and bloom.

Sunday, 27 February 2011

voyages


Sailing distances in stormy weather. There is nothing but haze and fog on the horizon, the ghastly wind blowing the ship right off course. All on board wish to see land, they want a destination; but it is unclear if they will make it. Perhaps they turn back and give up discovering? Or they wait out the storm from afar and venture on once the worst has passed? Or maybe they head right through the damn thing, praying they will survive.

I hope for a bountiful voyage. An inviting, foreign land. Life is kind of like a ship in a stormy sea right now. I'm half lost, unsure why I am in this state. Maybe it's a kind of limbo, I just have to figure things out. Get things done. I want a reward; some joy, perhaps at the other side of this terrible journey I'm going to have to go through.

Don't lose your way.

Saturday, 26 February 2011

je m'ennuie de ce lieu


Weepy, weary, achey, under-the-weather. How fun it is to be in a cold country(!) I wish I were somewhere warmer, maybe Europe is a little bit better this time of year. I'd love to be in a hotel room in France with a box of macaroons and soft French music blaring out from a sidewalk restaurant, like Yann Tiersen or Jean-Yves Thibaudet; maybe even Serge or Charlotte Gainsbourg. Everyone would look cosy, walking arm in arm to and from the streets of Marseilles. I'd love to have a balcony in my hotel room with a view of the patisserie on the corner, all of the delicious aromas wavering off everywhere so that i'd feel hungry. The boulangerie would be sold out of bread, with a plump French man going "alors, alors!" exclaiming there is no more.


Sometimes I long for a French friend, and we'd have laughs sitting in café's and walking along the edges of fountains throwing bread for imaginary ducks. We would chase pretty French boys into dark side streets and pick up tips from wandering mimes and living statues. It would be a happy time in my life if I lived somewhere in France.

Friday, 25 February 2011

tempus, time


Days go by so fast, there is still so much to do. I feel some sense of repetition, it's all getting boring, stale, there is no fun, hardly much enjoyment. If one does not roam outside, how can one dwell inside as a sane being? It's like not noticing the phases of the moon. Usually captivating and beautiful, it's a missed opportunity to have not seen the wonder. Don't let lethargy set in.

Thursday, 24 February 2011

star no star


It's better to leave the past behind, I know what you are; the predator before the kill, foaming at the mouth for your prey. It's not a love story at all, perhaps it's the opposite. You are black and I am white. Two oppositions that will just never be. I will not be weak in your vile attempts to sully me. We will not be. There is no tragedy for you here to see.


I cannot distance myself
You were the one who believed
that only half of a girl
half more than you could deceive

I watch your face on TV
All that I am turns to fear
When you're the boy that I want
I will be waiting right here

I don't know what to believe
Sew up the sore make it fake
When you're the boy that I want
I'll be the girl that you hate

You end up dead in the end
Star no star
You end up right here my friend
Star no star
We end up dead in the end
Star no star
We end up right here my friend
Star no star

I can not distance myself
You were the one who believed
that only half of a girl
half you but never half me

I see your face on the street
Burnt hands but features so clear
When I'm the girl that you want
I will be waiting right here

I don't know what to believe
peel all the scars from our way
When you're the boy that I want
we will have one perfect day

You end up dead in the end
Star no Star
You end up right here my friend
Star no Star
We end up dead in the end
Star no Star
We end up right here my friend
Star no Star

I am so distant myself
I guess I never believed
that you could take it away
and I'd have no time to grieve

I don't believe in TV
I don't believe in the fear
When you are searching for stars
You will be looking right here

You end up dead in the end
Star no Star
You end up right here my friend
Star no Star
We end up dead in the end
Star no Star
We end up right here my friend
Star no Star

We end up right here my friend
Star no Star
We end up right here my friend
Star no Star
We end up right here my friend
Star no Star

Wednesday, 23 February 2011

painted skies


Underneath the mountain ranges
Where the wind that never changes
Touch the windows of my soul

I'm just a child of nature

I don't need much to set me free
I'm just a child of nature
I'm one of nature's children

Tuesday, 22 February 2011

three wishes


I used to think that we all had three wishes in our lifetime. Sometimes I'd be selfish and use one of my wishes to wish things were better but generally, I kept my wishes until I was eight or so (and then became more aware.) I used to be desperate sometimes, wanting to be safe in my own home, wanting to be happier. That's all I really wished for. I always felt guilty I'd used up one of my wishes. It seems all the more silly writing this down, but it just reminds me how bad things really were. I remember, particularly on scary, long plane rides I used to hope my life, and the lives of everyone else on there were safe. I've always cared, I often wonder why I care more than most.

I unsuccessfully tried to see how he was, after the email he sent me - I just thought... I can't reply. I need to talk to him, hear his voice. He misses me. I miss him. If only his idiot of a sister mother didn't have a pea-sized brain.


: EDIT:

We talked, in the end. Sounds like there is a story behind his mother. I'm not sure if I can believe in him, in us anymore. I'd like to remain friends though. We'll see.


We'd be so less fragile
If we're made from metal
And our hearts from iron
And our minds from steel
And if we built an army
Full of tender bodies
Could we love each other?
Would we stop to feel

And you want three wishes;
One to fly the heavens
One to swim like fishes
And then one you're saving for a rainy day
If your lover ever takes her love away

You say you want to know her like a lover
And undo her damage, she'll be new again
Soon you'll find that if you try to save her
It renews her anger
You will never win

Monday, 21 February 2011

like flowers in bloom


Flowers in bloom, fresh air and light rain. I remember I used to enjoy long walks in the rain. Once I was travelling back from someone's house and it started to lightly drizzle. I smiled and started running. Ran all the way around bends and along the pavements of the estate. People were staring at me from nearby, and surely enough I was probably acting like a kid. But I loved every minute of the freshness and exhiliaration of being carefree in the light rain. I smiled for the whole afternoon after that.

Nature is beside you, all around you. You are never alone.

Sunday, 20 February 2011

garden parties on the summer lawn


I'm just waiting for the smell of freshly cut grass and the sound of airplanes going by, creating white lines in the sky. I wish for the nights I can sit on the swing in the back garden with my barefeet feeling the air as I go back and forth into the air and out from the reality of the harsh world. When it gets warmer, things feel better at least. This summer will be about job hunting and volunteering as well as travelling and resting. I should try and prepare for next year too.

the grass between your toes,
a kiss upon your nose.
a ladybug comes to sit,
as a butterfly whizzes by.
here's an apple from the tree,
it's not quite ripe yet for me you see.
on the horizon the sky is blue,
and i daydream and think of you.
the warmth of the sun on my back,
forever,
forever,
this time shall last.

Friday, 18 February 2011

a horse is not a home


Home is calling,
and it's haunting.
I wanna be wild,
wild and free.
Like the horses,
and the wind.

Thursday, 17 February 2011

l'amour et la violence


I was trying to see if you were okay, I wanted to still see if we could be friends and see how you're feeling. After a few dozen calls, your sister finally tells me that "no one wants to speak" to me. That's cool, i'll try again. I've got fourty-five free minutes to use up still. Oh, but right now I am content, i'm tired and annoyed with the work I have to do; but I'm content within myself. Hopefully that won't change when I go back home. Everything's better, the heating's back and I love how i'm not really affected by the need of wanting to be in a relationship or seeing/hearing about relationships and I don't feel down about it. I think I've made some progress, I need to figure out what makes me happy and in the meantime just focus on my work.


Books about the seaside,
by candlelight.
Dreaming of the freedom,
with flowers in bloom.

Wednesday, 16 February 2011

it's hard to get by just upon a smile


Sometimes I feel strong enough to go it alone, and it's better to cut your losses at the end of it. If something's not working out then there is no point in being unhappy all of the time. I am content, i am at peace. Although it is cold, I will survive.



But if you wanna leave, take good care
I hope you have a lot of nice things to wear
But then a lot of nice things turn bad out there

Oh, baby, baby, it's a wild world

It's hard to get by just upon a smile
Oh, baby, baby, it's a wild world
I'll always remember you like a child, girl

You know I've seen a lot of what the world can do

And it's breakin' my heart in two
Because I never wanna see you a sad girl
Don't be a bad girl
But if you wanna leave, take good care
I hope you make a lot of nice friends out there
But just remember there's a lot of bad and beware


Baby, I love you

But if you wanna leave, take good care
I hope you make a lot of nice friends out there
But just remember there's a lot of bad and beware

Tuesday, 15 February 2011

there are ghosts in the air i breathe

Everything is so cold, and it's starting to get to me. Where did the hope of better and sunny days dissolve to? Ehh.. I sometimes wish I weren't physically living, I wish I could be a ghost. If I were invisible and I could just get on with travelling and seeing and being in the world then I would be a lot happier. It's weird how once you lose a good feeling, it is so hard to regain. If I were invisible, I would do whatever I felt like; I would get my joy of life through nature and listening to other people's laughter. I wish I could learn a thousand languages when I stowaway on flights to every location in the world. I would peek in on others' lives and sort of live vicariously through them as human beings. I would be content with just existing and being.

Oh how I wish.

Monday, 14 February 2011

love is love is love..

We all love someone or something, Valentines Day doesn't have to be hard. It's more about appreciating what you have than what is missing. I do long for a strong pair of arms wrapped around me, I want kisses and breakfast in bed. The ecstasy in sex, and watching TV together; laughing at silly stuff. I'm hoping my time will come, and that it's true and real. Until then, I appreciate the world and all of the beauty in it.

Cassie: Do you know what hurts most about a broken heart? Not being able to remember how you felt before... try and keep that feeling, because... if it goes... you'll never get it back.
Chris: What happens then?
Cassie: You lay waste to the world... and everything in it. ♥

Sunday, 13 February 2011

on the edge

Maybe we're all meant to be a piece of history, just a story to tell. Some of us may inspire someone after we die, who actually knows? I mean, every life is just a series of random events; triumphs and losses through time. Life is short for some, but prolonged for others. I don't know if there is a reason for this, perhaps people who live longer need to impart more knowledge. But then again, it doesn't work with some people who do nothing but the necessary all their lives. I wonder what people think of me, quite a bit of the time. I wonder what they will think of me when I am gone. Is life just really going through the motions with no real purpose? They say it's about the journey and not the destination, but why are we really here? I hate when I think about inexplainable things.

"You can't control the things that happen to you, but you can control the way you react to them. It's all about perception."
- Marnie Olsen(Kristen Bell), You Again.

Saturday, 12 February 2011

kiss me, and never, never. never let me go

I like movies that create twisted human worlds, it's so creative and fascinating. It reminded me of The Island, but a more humanistic, idealistic and realistic approach. I wonder what life is sometimes, but then, so do most people. Maybe we're all just here to be lab rats.

It’s been two weeks since I lost him. I’ve been given my notice now. My first donation is in a month’s time. I come here, and imagine that this is the spot where everything I’ve lost since my childhood has washed up. I tell myself, ‘If that were true, and I waited long enough, then a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the field, and gradually get larger until I’d see it was Tommy. He’d wave, and maybe call.’ I don’t let the fantasy go beyond that. I can’t let it. I remind myself I was lucky to have had any time with him at all. What I’m not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people that we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we’ve lived through. Or feel we’ve had enough time.

- Kathy H., Never Let Me Go

Friday, 11 February 2011

sleep is the perfect escape


I dont know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That’s why I’m trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning.
The Perks Of Being A Wallflower



"People say, ‘I’m going to sleep now,’ as if it were nothing. But it’s really a bizarre activity. ‘For the next several hours, while the sun is gone, I’m going to become unconscious, temporarily losing command over everything I know and understand. When the sun returns, I will resume my life.’

If you didn’t know what sleep was, and you had only seen it in a science fiction movie, you would think it was weird and tell all your friends about the movie you’d seen.

They had these people, you know? And they would walk around all day and be OK? And then, once a day, usually after dark, they would lie down on these special platforms and become unconscious. They would stop functioning almost completely, except deep in their minds they would have adventures and experiences that were completely impossible in real life. As they lay there, completely vulnerable to their enemies, their only movements were to occasionally shift from one position to another; or, if one of the ‘mind adventures’ got too real, they would sit up and scream and be glad they weren’t unconscious anymore. Then they would drink a lot of coffee.’

So, next time you see someone sleeping, make believe you’re in a science fiction movie. And whisper, ‘The creature is regenerating itself.' "


George Carlin

Thursday, 10 February 2011

inhale, exhale


There I go, watching my lungs fill with air; with a new hope, with life. It takes no concious effort to breathe for a healthy person, we are all alive even if we don't feel like it. I'm beginning to dislike rapid chemical changes; the balances, imbalances inside of me. No more depression, I don't really want to die you know. I want to live, to breathe and be. Preferably by the sea, in nature; the wild is where I am in my mind. I am strong, I am brave and I will be free. It's all a series of miscalculated ups and downs, really. Just need to get used to it.

Just keep breathing.

Wednesday, 9 February 2011

what is worth living for, is worth a fight


A spider spins it's web so intricately and carefully. I wonder how tired the spider gets from making a home, sometimes even their home gets destroyed and then it's back to square one. Lately i've been feeling like i'm regressing, and it's not good really. Usually, when the sun comes out I feel relieved and sort of look forward to what's ahead. Maybe it's because this year is a big birthday, higher expectations and not so much fun. I do tend to get depressed around the few months before and after my birthday, and it is drawing ever so closer.

Valentine's, and I realise it's almost 7 years since that text. It's strange and marvelous how I keep people in my life. I hope there is happiness in love for me, I hope love triumphs over all. I think it's my secret wish. To be loved and to love.

I have all of this love to give.

Tuesday, 8 February 2011

i know pain and sadness like the back of my hand


You know that feeling you get, where you see someone's reaction and you think, 'i've felt that, i know that feeling all too well.' Sometimes the mind wanders into dark and dangerous places, sometimes it's hard to know how to be. The sun was out today, though temperature was near 0. But it definitely makes a difference, it's an inexplainable positive, penetrating feeling. I just hope there's more to come. And make it warmer please!

Monday, 7 February 2011

and he psychoanalysed that she had an electra complex


Am I a psychopath?
Did I just grow up with ID tendencies, forgetting most of my EGO and cutting out my SUPER EGO? Apparently these are the types of people only out for their own means, selfish and dangerous beings who will do anything to get what they want. There was a guy living in Dorset, and his girlfriend lived in London. She'd moved over there for a job, whilst he stayed at home and was basically a slob living off his parents. One day, his girlfriend was feeling the need for a break; and to convince her not to do this, the guy asked his parents for their car to drive down to London and sort it all out in person. His dad refused him the car, and suddenly the guy's selfish ID took over and grabbed a hammer and hit his father over the head. He then went into the kitchen, to make a sandwich for his journey - with no remorse or care for what he had just done. He stumbled upon his mother in the kitchen, and proceeded to smash the hammer into her skull as well. Then, dragging both bodies (leaving trails of blood behind,) the guy drove off in the car (with his sandwich) and dumped his parents' bodies off a cliff. Then he went down to London, acted completely calm with his girlfriend and explained that he'd seen an injured sheep (to explain the blood on his shirt.) Later that evening, the police caught up with the guy, his parents bodies had been discovered at the bottom of the cliff (they didn't quite make it into the sea) and the guy was arrested.

We do have fun talking about these things. Like human babies are more vulnerable than other animals because they can barely see, can't hear or smell straight after birth whereas within a few hours, other animals are walking after being born. However, babies have an instinctive defence mechanism for survival in their appearance of being cute; making people look at them, notice them, and care for them. They are born with an EGO, which controls their desires. This process of controlling our desires is largely learnt from parents, teachers etc. But between the ages of three and eight years old, babies are largely unconcious beings. They are fully instilled with SUPER EGO's, which promote guilt, satisfaction and remorse whenever the ID takes control.
The conflict between the ID and SUPER EGO causes stress throughout our lives. The EGO relieves stress by compromise/resolves conflict otherwise we would always stay stressed. Similarly, Psychodynamic counselling is about talking our stresses out, because if we repress certain memories, we will feel stressed. This can lead to reaction formation, which is an expression of anger where a person's repressed feelings surface. A big trauma can be repressed until the stress gets too much, then a person may explode bigtime and repress again until there is too much stress. Unconcious ID's can explode from being repressed and cause multiple personalities. i.e. MPD. A person can create up to seventeen personalities within themselves. However, it is difficult to test the unconcious mind, although the Rorscharch test is a good way, also, white noise.

It is said that healthy people get angry quickly, and also return to normal quickly. (is that me?)

Sunday, 6 February 2011

this house is not a home


There's a chill in the air. All this waiting is causing howling wind and stagnant reverie. I just want it to be sunny and warm, brightness surrounding each and every inch of the Earth. I wish I were in vast, open plains where bright moons and forests were frequent. If I were in a wolf pack, I'd feel vicious and determined. Lately it's all been calm, and maybe there's need for the storm?



"You know that point in your life when you realize the house you grew up in isn't really your home anymore? All of a sudden even though you have some place where you put your shit, that idea of home is gone. You'll see one day when you move out it just sort of happens one day and it's gone. You feel like you can never get it back. It's like you feel homesick for a place that doesn't even exist. Maybe it's like this rite of passage, you know. You won't ever have this feeling again until you create a new idea of home for yourself, you know, for your kids, for the family you start, it's like a cycle or something. I don't know, but I miss the idea of it, you know. Maybe that's all family really is. A group of people that miss the same imaginary place."



"You know, this necklace makes me think of this totally random memory of my mother. I was a little kid, and I was crying for one reason or another. And she was cradling me, rocking me back and forth, and I can just remember the silver balls rolling around. And there was like snot running down my nose. And she offered me her sleeve and told me to blow my nose into it. And I can remember, even as a little kid, thinking to myself, this is love... this is love."