To you who found this

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I'll stop the world and melt with you.

To Our Noble Ambitions

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Why do we do what we do? We struggle to aim for something, but do we really know why we're doing this? We could have a lot of noble ambitions in life but what is our end goal, really?

Karen

To Stubborn Situations

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In the beginning, it seems like a happy and playful experience to rock back and forth on a horse. But soon as you notice it's getting you nowhere, and you still keep on rocking back and forth, it frustrates you and you would want to leave and move forward. That's when you realize, time for the real horse now.

Rock ahead.

Karen

To Fables

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We read and we listen,

we leaf through your pages.

In your simple world you speak of truth,
in her extravagant life, she speaks of beauty.

You are wisdom, and she is love.
She is popular, and you are barely known.

Is it not wisdom that we need
Are you not the words we need to hear?

You speak of a simple life,
Life in simple happiness and truth.

//karen

To A Couple

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They looked beautiful,
smiling and dancing and in each other's arms.
The naturalness of how they look at each other
the happiness in the corners of their eyes and lips
every detail was captured, in black and white
in highlighted hues, and desaturated photos
without words, without motion.
in still, lighted and shadowed photos
they whispered things to each other,
and to the spectator, their love.

Karen

To Your Random Ways

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In fragmented pieces you walk on the ramp.

In incomplete thoughts, you speak your words.

You act like you're certain, but aren't really.

In confusion, you laugh and walk away slowly.

Karen

To Your Unbelief

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There is magic even in your state of disbelief. You are awed even if you show refusal to concede.

To You

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Breakfast is always best experienced when shared. Have you eaten breakfast? I made one for us.

Karen

To Dad, on Christmas

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Hi Dad! Christmas is nearing already, and you know what that means. You used to fear of the expenses made on this season, but not this year. You used to watch us hurry our preparation for Christmas, but maybe not so this year. This is not the first Christmas without you, and I don't think I can keep on counting the next of it without you. You know I never stopped missing you, it's just that, Christmas is a perfect excuse to voice out how much I miss you.

Anyway, may this year be as special as the ones we spent together. At the same time, may this year's Christmas be special in a way that it's uniquely ours, not just spent on reminiscing, but creating new memories together as a family.

This year's Christmas will be different because of the whole lot of new people I met, and with the few which I'll be happy to spend and wish a good Christmas with. And this year will be the first Christmas we'll spend away from home --- new sights, new taste, and a different Christmas breeze. The thought of it excites me already, but more than that, it's cherishing our being together as a family.

I know, I know. There really is no point trying to make you feel envious of what our Christmas celebration will be. I'm pretty sure yours is grand and utterly joyful. I guess all I want to say is, no matter how much we try spending Christmas differently, you will always take part in it, and you will always keep the family together.

We won't be home for Christmas... but so will you. I'll still wait for you, though.

Love you, Dad.

Your daughter,
Karen

P.S. I still have a Christmas wishlist to give to you. :)

To My Unnamed Friend

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You probably won't think this is you, but read on, and I'm sure you'll understand what I'm talking about and realize this is you.

You're a person in search of greatness in other people, for this I'm sure you know how it feels to meet someone you deem to be great. For so long we've been talking about people and their wonderful capabilities and unrelenting principles. For a long time already, we've talked about people who are courageous and are out of the norm and are already living their dream. And now I wonder, why did it take me this long before I realize your own greatness?

You have no idea how this feels. It's a cognitive dissonance between feeling proud and feeling deceived. I feel deceived, because all this time that we talk of other people's greatness, you are already living your own greatness. But at the same time it leaves me a little pride that I am witnessing these and more of these unfolding right before me.

It was stupid of me to have asked you, why do you keep these things to yourself? You never intended to keep them in you, you were simply living it, without you thinking about it, without you being aware of it... you were simply on it. And it's up to the rest of us around you to discover these things in you little by little.

You're an irony. You hope of being great, when you already are. You admire other people's greatness, when you live like it doesn't really matter if you exude this greatness or not. You're simply you, and I guess that's what makes you genuinely great as a person.

Your friend,
Karen

P.S. The photo: may you as well fly above your own ocean. May you see where the sky and the ocean meet like there's no difference between them anymore.

To Today

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I woke up with the wrong pair of socks today --- a happy-anxious feeling.