The terms retrenchment, lowered wages and the all too familiar 'Times are bad...' never fail to remind us of the finiancial recession that broke out just a few years back. Peoples' impression of their cushy jobs and bright futures suddenly became bleak, almost as if a dark blanket was being pulled over the once-thought-to-be recession proof economy
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You wake up to the familiar sound of your cellphone's 'alarm function' and after a few reluctant groans you force open your ever-so-heavy eye-lids and stumble to the bathroom. You pick up the same blue-green toothbrush from the same toothbrush holder, squeeze the exact same volume of toothpaste with deathly precision but casually, and start
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Here i sit, with a heavy head, lacerated back, bruised head, hips, ass, feet, and a stinging cut in my left toe. Still remotely dazed, i can only wallow in quiet contempt with regards to last night's events... swirling through my mind like a chocolate marble cake. Yes, that's how i feel like, soft and spongy.
Scrolling through the whitewash of these pages just days ago revealed the voids in my life i had long forgotten. The different phases in which collectively influenced me to be who i am today... Or supposedly
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"Hey. Could we do that again? I know we haven't met, but I don't want to be an ant. You know? I mean, it's like we go through life with our antennas bouncing off one another, continously on ant autopilot, with nothing really human required of us. Stop. Go. Walk here. Drive there. All action basically for survival. All communication simply to keep
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