My whole life is about forgetting. It's my most valuable job skill.
My whole life is about forgetting. It's my most valuable job skill.
You can guess this is how men have been handling Eva's hostility for her whole life. Just distract her. Get through the moment. Avoid confrontation. Run away. That's pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our own attention. Jacking off. Denial.
The same as real life, there is no happily ever after.
When you're thinking about the rest of your life, you're never really thinking more than a couple years down the road.
If you died right now, how would you feel about your life?
In the world I see you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rock feller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Towers. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying stripes of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighways.
Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn't.
There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with.
Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die.
You love me. You ignore me. You save my life, then you cook my mother into soap.
My point is, that if I'm honest, my life is all about me.
Your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. Then puberty makes you Satan, just because you want something better.
Amber saw getting infected as the ultimate commitment. Like her and the guy would be doomed to be with each other. Looking back, she figured a brush with death would make her really enjoy her life. Like she would feel more alive.
Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.
Mylife might be little and boring, but at least it's mine - not some assembly-line, secondhand, hand-me-down life.
You see, life only turns out good or bad for only a little bit. And then it turns out some other way.
First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life
Id like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff.
The best way to waste your life, ... is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate.
You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.
I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.
You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories