Girls Night Glamour Shoot!!!

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On The First Warm Night

Laying in bed in an old worn out t-shirt. It has gone from zero to hot overnight. The window is open with a curious cat sitting in it, a predictor of where his favourite spot will be for the rest of this short lived summer.

There is almost no breeze. It barely even has the strength to push through my heavy curtains. I had forgotten how nice it was to hear the hum of the outside world, to feel the presence of life around me in the form of white noise. It crescendos only once in a while with a police siren echoing through the downtown buildings, or with a car rushing by pushing the atmosphere out of its way at 50 km/h.

God I wish there was a breeze right now. I am laying perfectly still so that I might feel even the slightest of one if it did come… but it does not.

The smell of the fresh spring air will work as a sleeping gas for me tonight and will put me out with a slight grin on my face because I know I will dream of the summer that lies ahead.

On Missing Someone Too Much for Too Long:

Ever miss somebody so bad you would do anything to get them back? Of course, if you have gotten to that point, you have to admit that you were the one that messed it up beyond all repair.

Have you ever tried filling that person's void with another? You tried to find something that reminded you of that someone in them.

Do they ultimately just let you down when they prove to be too different? It was actually kind of unfair but you could not help it for it has been subconscious this whole time.

Well, now I realise what has been for too long. With this recognition comes enlightenment and closure.

On Real Life Vampires

Vampires do exist! …Well at least to a certain extent.
Ever encounter one of those people who are just so unhappy with their own life that they have to make everyone else around them equally miserable? They look at the lives of others (and their level of happiness) and only see what they have that they do not. They could be the Royal Prince of Persia and still only see what that someone else has that they want and do not yet possess.

Instead of trying to work at bringing their quality of life up to a higher level, Real Life Vampires (RLVs) will just try to drag unsuspecting individuals down to their level because it is far easier. RLVs will literally suck the life blood out of the people in their lives. If one is not wary of such creatures, one could easily become one of them without even realising they have been bit. With their bite, the blood is poisoned with viral forms of bitterness, jealousy and negativity; thus one has become one of them.

If one is to discover they have, in fact, come across such an individual it is best to escape their clutches by any means necessary. Do not bother trying to tell them they are in fact a vampire because in true horror film fashion… they can not even take a look at themselves in the mirror.

In rare cases it can be known for a RLV to be cured and have their heart beat returned, but this usually takes a lengthy process of blood transfusions and a complete dialysis of their lives.

Ear Plugs

I close my eyes in the darkness and let the compressed foam unfurl, filling up the canal until there is no room left to expand. I absorb myself in the ringing in my ears, letting my eyes roll back in the silence. The ringing subsides to the muffled noises of those I am trying to block out. I hear stifled blurbs but they mean nothing to me now. They are not even English anymore... and I drift...

Spectacle

My favourite word; because art and the popular media would not exist without it. If there were no boundary pushers or out-of-the-box thinkers, there would be none of the excitement this media based culture is fuelled by.

There would be no great pyramids, no 4th of July fireworks, nor even 3D animated movies. Our favourite Mp3 player’s name would not be so iconic. Lady Gaga would be out of a career.

No singular word in my vocabulary better defines the world I live in.

*I encourage the world to see life as their own spectacle*

Blind

Does anybody really even see anymore? I feel like I’ve been walking around in a city where almost everyone’s eyes are half closed… Just walking around blindly in the paths they have been travelling since they were kids.

Our lives have been about walking around in the dark, in our middle class homes, trying not to bump into the familiar furniture. Sometimes you bump (or slam) into things out of place or forgotten and it forces you to (re)discover it. Then and only then are you truly paying attention…

I want to turn on the lights…