Unbounded

Indeed, your past has a way of sneaking up on you. You'll hear broken echoes of it everywhere, like a bad replay. You'll get mad at everyone for reminding you about it, even if it's all in your head.

I had a dinner with a good friend back in college about a month ago. Needless to say, everything I know now I learned in a swanky Italian Fusion Restaurant in Gateway.

Yes, in Cibo, Gateway Mall.

...I know.

If there are two things that stand out from one’s account of friendship, it is equality and empathy. True friendship can only be between two people who are equals, at least roughly, you can’t be friends with the truly clingy; nor can you be friends with someone who sees you beneath them, but it’s more than just rough equality.

It’s the ability to put yourself in the place of the other person, understand what they are thinking and feeling, forgiving them when it is appropriate to forgive them, and speaking your mind when you think it is needed.

Thank you for the dinner and for the evening. I’ve learned and realized much in the past year because of you.

*****

Sushi and Zen

(5 weeks ago)

My friend was right. There are no choices. Nothing but a straight line; the illusion comes afterwards, when you ask, “Why me?”, “What if?”. Now, if we all have a penny every time it swirled around our heads, we’d be friggin’ rich.

Friggin’ rich, but living a meaningless life.

See, when you look back and see the branches, like a pruned bonsai tree, or a forked lightning, or what you ordered in a sushi place, if you had done something differently, it wouldn’t be your choice; it wouldn’t be you. It would be someone else looking back, asking a different set of questions, and ordering a different set of dish.

*****

I’ve been waiting for my dreams
To turn into something

I could believe in
And looking for that
Magic rainbow
On the horizon
I couldn’t see it
Until I let go
Gave into love and watched all the bitterness burn
Now I’m coming alive
Body and soul
And feelin’ my world start to turn

And I’ll taste every moment
And live it out loud
I know this is the time,
This is the time
To be more than a name
Or a face in the crowd
I know this is the time
This is the time of my life
Time of my life

Holding onto things that vanished
Into the air
Left me in pieces
But now I’m rising from the ashes
Finding my wings
And all that I needed
Was there all along
Within my reach
As close as the beat of my heart

So I’ll taste every moment
And live it out loud
I know this is the time,
This is the time to be
More than a name
Or a face in the crowd
I know this is the time
This is the time of my life
Time of my life

And I’m out on the edge of forever
Ready to run
I’m keeping my feet on the ground
My arms open wide
My face to the sun

I’ll taste every moment
And live it out loud
I know this is the time,
This is the time to be
More than a name
Or a face in the crowd
I know this is the time
This is the time of my life
Time of my life
More than a name
Or a face in the crowd
This is the time
This is the time of my life.
This is the time of my life.

I thank God for friends who give you big hugs, not just because you're down, but rather, just because.