Creative-Writing

it is so easy to lose your dreams. the pieces of yourself that you wanted to carry, and make into your legacy. the things that make your life yours. sometimes i worry that i’m forgetting my dreams, letting them go. it is so easy to do that. to get carried in the motions of everyday life. forgetting to organize. forgetting to remember. however, just as easy as it is to forget, you start anew. every morning, you wake up to take care of your body. it does not forget the desire to continue. you…remember things from your past, and bring them back into your future. your dreams don’t need continuity. you are not a movie. but you are a story. a story that decides to rewrite itself from time to time. a story that dwells in the petty detail and the mundane stress. a story that sometimes needs room to breathe, and sometimes desperately needs something, anything to progress. ...

what is our obsession with wanting to be in-person? what difference does the body make when it’s close to us? friendships that go forgotten, only because a walking distance turns into a bus ride. relationships gone, for the warm hug is not there anymore. the easy access, turning into effort, turning into nothing at all. but I have seen the distance not even making a dent on some. mails sent, not expecting a response for months on end, but still expecting an answer regardless. couples on airports, meeting at the first chance they have and having their moment of pure joy. friends, having never even met in person, relying on purely the acknowledgement that they have managed to keep a connection going for years on end. managing to make the embrace of two minds more important than the embrace. trusting that you have someone on the other side of the world who’s doing exactly the same thing. an unspoken trust. ...