Blood in the Water

[rachg82]

I am damned near delirious at this point from yet another night of all-too-brief, constantly-interrupted sleep, but I did write a quick poem/story this morning (it seems like a lot of my personal poems even are turning into stories. I still call them poems though because they're written in free-verse, but yeah. Interesting), so I guess my being

Comments

[limone1]

Keep writing my friend, you have a rare talent. Your final line feels very Shakesperian.

My So Called Life was on 20 years ago?! OK, it wasn't yesterday but it wasn't that long ago... right?

[rachg82]

Thank you so much for your continued support, bb -- I can't tell you how much I appreciate it. Your comments make me feel like I'm not here just talking to myself, and your praise really helps me push my insecurities down so I can keep writing. You're invaluable to me.

And I KNOW, RIGHT? Like it doesn't even seem possible. But yeah, twenty years ago exactly. I watched it in 1995 when I was 13. If that's not reason enough for people to watch it--the fact that I STILL think about it now, twenty flippin' years later--then I don't know what is.

[tempertemper]

Rach, you are amazing. You are such a gifted writer, you write from the heart and you share a piece of yourself each time. It's an honour to read your words ♥

Annnnd 20 years ago I was getting ready to start university - we have a reunion in September. Seems unreal!

[rachg82]

I really needed to hear something like that today. Thank you.

That's what no one tells you when you're growing up -- how freaking *weird* aging feels. Sometimes it's like you can look back & feel that the past was a hundred years ago, and then a second later it's like, "But wasn't that yesterday?"

[tempertemper]

♥♥♥

SO true! I sometimes feel like stuff from my early childhood is fresh as a daisy.. I'll be 40 in 2017 and it's unreal!