Caitlin once said; what the fuck has happened in the world, to end up here?
Mim once said; cant we just disappear and take our chances??
It souned good.
Haha, someone once said that they'd find me....
you'll never find me where I'm about to go.
When you turn your back, I'll be out the door;
"I don't love you anymore, goodbye."

why is it that when something happens to us, we always feel the need to tell somebody or something? no matter how lame, or stupid, or annoying, or just plain boring the story is; we continue to pass them on. other people's narratives have always interested me, but i still don't understand why i feel the need to keep telling my own.

sometimes you hear of, or experience, the part of humanity we like to forget exists. the part that we briefly see on the five o'clock news, or in the papers, or hear of as we pass the mothers talking in the condiment isle of the local supermarket. working at doveton primary school these past two days has reminded me that this part of humanity is ( Read more... )

somehow i reached this on wikipedia. i read about earthquakes above 9 on the richter scale, and a 'megatsunami' that could happen if meteorites hit... i read about nuclear winters, pandemics, supervolcanos... oh and something called "Sudden mass migration".... anyway the point of making an lj entry about this was because the wikipedia article made ( Read more... )

i know people say: "live each day like it's your last". and everybody knows that they might die tomorrow. but does anyone actually consider it? people our age often choose their funeral songs, but do we really expect to die before we become old and wheelchair bound? do we cherish the people in our lives knowing that tomorrow we might not be around ( Read more... )

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i was pondering........ perhaps it only exists in our memories, and as memories are false representations of events therefore the past cannot exist at all. but then i was thinking of the line in memento something like: "memory isn't reliable. do the police rely on eye-witness testimonies to solve a case? no. they gather facts". Which means such ( Read more... )

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i wish i knew
where this
was.


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Over 3 million people worldwide die from smoking-related causes each year.

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