Everything feels confining to me today. I look around and find walls in all 4 directions. I see houses, brick and glass and concrete when all I'm looking for is the horizon. It's too much to ask, isn't it. My gaze alone bumps into every obstacle as if trying to break through. Myself, I picked up my boxing gloves and hit a wall until my arms tired ( Read more... )

You know, it hit me lately... this feels like Tokyo all over again. I remember surviving on online conversations, saving piles of 100 yen coins for phonecalls that never lasted long enough, comfort food and going out for window shopping (I despise window shopping) and just wandering about for lack of something to do. I remember train rides for the ( Read more... )