{"id":2852,"date":"2007-08-23T02:08:33","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T02:08:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-08-23T02:08:33","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T02:08:33","slug":"-Just-One-Of-Those-Days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=2852","title":{"rendered":"Just One Of Those Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\">Some days I just feel like being random &#8212; and speak in tidbits instead of coherent sentences. I hate these days when I&#39;m right smacked at the bottom of the wheel.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-family: arial\"><\/p>\n<p><b>I.  Keep Moving<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\">Everyone has bad days right?  And every once in a while we get slammed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\">Right?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\">Today was a pothole down my road&#8230; more like a giant manhole infested with maggots the size of big macs. I don&#39;t know why I constantly let trivial things get to me like the pettiness of people, for instance. I know I&#39;m entirely above that but why does it still bother me? Why do I let it bother me? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\">I know better than to trust people. It&#39;s something that I&#39;ve picked up along the way &#8212; mostly from smart people who give me sound advice. It makes sense; it&#39;s the wise thing to do. Sometimes I slip though. I feel that I&#39;m naturally trusting&#8230; or perhaps just too naive. There are atypically atrocious people crawling the earth. And it&#39;s beyond me why I insist on getting burnt multiple times. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\">Another thing that bothers me is the obscene amount of self-absorbent people out there. When did the vexed ship from Planet Selfish sail over to Earth to bring all these immigrants in? And why do they procreate in exponential rates? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\">People who are true and sincere listeners are a rare commodity. But when I seemingly find someone like that, I get scared&#8230; I get scared that they would think I&#39;m self-absorbent. I don&#39;t like being the epitome of my own worst enemy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\">Sadly, I think it&#39;s getting there.  I&#39;m becoming my own worst enemy.  I need to listen to myself more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\">Before, during my hey days (or so-called ones), when I was upset I would reach for a cigarette and a glass of soda+vodka. I would tell myself that it&#39;ll make me feel better. And it did. The only problem was, once my lungs could no longer tolerate the killer smoke, the problems come back. It&#39;s like they were put on hold while I finished taking in my toxins and then would come back to bite me even harder in the behind. After I flick the last butt, I realize that I&#39;m back to square one&#8230; again.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: arial\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic\">II.  Need&#8230;More&#8230;Sleep&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes it feels like trudging through mud and glue. So exhausting &#8212; both physically and mentally. As as we get older, it seems like responsibilities and obligations just keep on piling up. Never running out of things to do. I pray that life won&#39;t lose its meaning&#8230; and for everyone I care about to never stray. It&#39;s only at the end that you realize what is most important. Through the everyday dealings, they seem rather trivial &#8212; often we take for granted the presence of our reasons for living.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: arial\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: arial\">Every moment that I get where I don&#39;t have to deal with worldly things, I just wish to sleep. If only I can sleep forever and never have to open my eyes again. I feel drained, I feel tired. And I especially feel lost. And scared. What if the feelings of dread never stop???<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: arial\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: arial\">I like the musical laughters that I hear and the smiling eyes that I see. It keeps me grounded&#8230; it gives me hope. Perhaps at the end of this long tunnel, there is a light after all. It&#39;s just something we all have to go through. But why? What for? Is the light worth seeing and working hard towards?<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: arial\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: arial\">Having to hurt some people on your way over, will they heal? Will they forgive? Will they understand? And getting hurt by the people most important to you&#8230; they&#39;re just going through the tunnel as well. You can&#39;t blame them now, can you?<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: arial\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: arial\">I&#39;m tired. I just want to sleep. Because in my dreams, there are no tunnels. All just light.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic\"><br \/><b>III.  Doh!<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial\">I have learned that there are things that are better left unknown. I know someone who always told me: <em>&#8220;Remember in the play Oedipus? When the chorus would always go &#39;You don&#39;t want to know&#39; over and over? Well, most of the time, they have a point.&#8221; <\/em><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: arial\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: arial\">Stupid chorus. Stupid Oedipus. Stupid me! <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: arial\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: arial\"><strong style=\"font-weight: normal\">Ignorance is bliss<\/strong> &#8212; I semi-agree with this&#8230; but the left part of my brain knows that this is not good enough for me. Why must I have the need to know everything? Why do I always need to know what the score is? <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: arial\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: arial\">To get ahead of the game&#8230; that&#39;s why.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some days I just feel like being random &#8212; and speak in tidbits instead of coherent sentences. 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