Loving the perfect person

Here’s something to think about. Suppose you meet someone who you feel like you’ve known forever. A friend, a confidant—someone you can tell anything and who always knows exactly what to say. A person who opens your eyes and change your outlooks on a daily basis, not only making you question how you believe, but someone who works to do so, asking you questions, and truly listening to your thoughts and feelings about the way your mind and feelings are moving. Someone who you can talk with for hours about everything and nothing and never feel like you need to take a break or fill a silence with unnecessary words. A beautiful human with just the right composure and composition to make your face smile and legs tremble. A perfect person.

Could you know you loved this person from the moment you met, or would you have to wait a set period of time before you finally admitted to yourself this truth? Would you tell them when you knew? Would it matter if they lived across the world? Would it matter if they were the same sex as you? What if they were a different race or religion? What if they felt differently from you about having a family? Would you want to live with them right off? Now think about your feelings for this perfect person, and ask yourself, “Why do I feel like this?” How does your love work? How does your heart react? Do you like it, or do you wish you felt a different way?

On making light of terrible things

Today is the one-year anniversary of the shootings at Virginia Tech. I found this out while I was sitting in the campus police station right before I was shown a doodle of a guy I had drawn shooting some people. I had the presence of mind to not only caption it "SCHOOL SHOOTING!", but include the URL to my web comic. Shit got deep.

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Music

Forget all the substances used to soothe, to calm, to relieve. Music is the best self-medication available. For years, I’d listen to others wail, jam and rock, using their pain and joy to help me feel better about whatever I needed to accept. It wasn’t until moments ago that I realized how big a crutch they were to actual self-discovery. Creating my own music has allowed me to think, reason and relax hundreds of times better than relying on the passions of others.

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11 June 2008

This thick, Alabama summer has been smothering me all week, and I really wish it would rain. Work has been work, school has been work and falling asleep alone has been work. A few months ago, I thought two months was an eternity, but now knowing El’s boxes will be arriving in a week and she will be arriving shortly thereafter makes me wonder how I survived for those two long, waiting months without tearing my hair out; a fortnight is an eternity.

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