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Am I worth saving?
It is going dark. The skyline is red. The screaming hasn’t stopped, but at some point it comes closer, inside the building.
Pets knew what they liked and their owners respected that. It always got to Graham when he knew a customer was on the bones of their arse and their food shopping was reduced to loaves of cheap bread, potatoes, tins of tomatoes and cheap cuts of meat, but the pet food stayed the same, even when it was a luxury brand.
By the middle of the third day I welcome death, but death is busy elsewhere.
She smelled of quiet things and happy things.
I understand momentarily why people drink – to spark that sunshine inside themselves – creating internal sunsets as they willed.
told her that I recognised everything she did for me. I would have acknowledged the sacrifices she had made for me from the moment of my conception to the time she wandered out and returned with Brown – pushing the puppy into my hands with a smile that still warms me when I think of it.
By way of reply, she farts quietly,
Let’s address the elephant in the room: me.
What he meant was that he wanted someone who shared her characteristics. Namely, a strong and independent woman with her own thoughts and beliefs.
Above all, the things that she had committed to, she held fast to her heart and never abandoned. Ben was so grateful that one of those things was him.
He wanted warts and all – he felt that all he had to offer was warts.
“If you can do something about a problem then you should do it; if you can’t, you should should pray about it and go to sleep.”
Is Disneyland even still there? Of course it is. It has to be. Disney is a universal constant, like time or gravity.
It never ceased to amaze Ben just how insane parents could be. There were certain experiences that they were seemingly biologically compelled to provide for their children.
This world is broken, but it doesn’t mean that I must be broken too. I have a chance to be better.
Fortunately, I also have something far better: PUP, the eponymous debut album of Canadian punk rock band, PUP. I choose the track Dark Days, because it’s a great song which sticks in your head for days, giving me value for battery usage, and the more I think about it, the lyrics might be about the secret to survival. It’s certainly eerily fitting for me: “We celebrate life at the end of the earth/When everything is gone/there’ll be nothing left to lose.”
There will always be problems, all I can do is to focus on what I can solve now.
