Monday, January 30, 2023

I can buy myself flowers...

Life is like riding a train. The journey begins when we buy our ticket, board and take our seat. We meet people along the way of which some are strangers, some friends and some strangers yet to be friends. There are stops and more and more people fill up the crowded space. At times some of them make their presence felt, while on other occasions they remain indifferent, or worse, quite destructive. But then it is important for some of them to make an exit, to get off at the next stop and walk the paths they were destined to because if they never left, then we would feel suffocated and confused, the purpose of the journey would lose its essence and it would altogether be neither worthwhile nor smooth.


I believe in the theory of chaos. What it means is that everything that happens in this moment is an accumulation of everything that's come before it. Every breath. Every thought. There is no innocent action. Some even end up having the force of a tempest. Their impact cannot be missed. Others are the blink of an eye. Passing by unnoticed. Perhaps only the universe knows which is which. You can think that what you've done is only the flap of a butterfly wing, when it's really a thunderclap. And both can result in a hurricane.

Thursday, January 26, 2023

Friday, January 20, 2023

I bet we'll see stars...


I must down to the seas again, 
to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship,
and a star to steer her by.


Inevitably, though, there will always be a significant part of the past which can neither be burnt nor banished to the soothing limbo of forgetfulness. Especially when it comes to issues of oneself. I guess in a sense I was and still am that same ship which carried me to new shores, the same vessel containing all the memories and dreams of that little scared boy, who was running so fast in the night, he didn't notice that he was nowhere near home. I am the shore I left behind as well as the house I search for every evening. The voyage cannot proceed without me. And it is once again at hand.