you know, honestly, i don't know why i write. especially on a blog...it's one blog, one minuscule blog in an entire database of information called the interweb. i don't know why i bother. it just doubles the fact that i am one person in a world of other people and my thoughts are also just one minuscule cluster of opinions. no one cares. and if they care to read just one sentence, that sentence will dissolve from their memory the moment they leave my blog page. i am forgotten, as the people i meet on the streets every day. i see someone different every single day yet i cannot remember any one of their faces. and i am sure i will never meet them again.
Labor of Love
I imagine a dark, inky, brown desk with old carvings and rusty drawers which atop would settle my 1940s typewriter. Although who am I kidding?, one of those would be a fortune. A laptop it is. I'd read news articles all day, composing stories and literature work to submit for publishing all the while editing works from fellow writers as well. I swivel in my chair, maybe kick my feet up on the desk and sip some British coffee, whatever that is. It's the creamy and smooth stuff, the kind where you pick up little sugar cubes with dainty silver tongs and drop it into teacups intricately designed with flowers and cherubs and blue birds peeking out from behind lush crops. Maybe there'll be music slipping into the atmosphere from the vintage record player I found in the attic. King Cole and Fitzgerald will be serenading long into the night. In the morning I'll find myself buried beneath books and fan letters and front page newspapers with my face plastered on it of how I'v...
Google recommended me to read your blog, so here I am browsing through. Hope you don't mind! I liked what you said! " it just doubles the fact that i am just one person in a world of other people and my thoughts are also just one minuscule cluster of opinions. "
ReplyDeleteHello Houa! I can't believe it! You're the first person to stop by! Honestly, it makes me a little nervous. I'm a very...peculiarly apprehensive writer...or self-named writer, rather. I'm glad you can connect to something I've written. I honestly have neglected my blog and writing in general but it feels good to know I have an audience, no matter the count. I appreciate you stopping by, truly! I hope that you'll find yourself reading my blog in the near future! :)
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