Ramblings

“Write a tragedy, articulate all that pain, and maybe you’ll get paid” – Rilo Kiley

A friend told me to see her perspective instead of feeling sorry for myself. That friend didn’t realize the self-pity is born from recognition of that perspective, not ignorance of it. And I thought she knew me.

Romance and tragedy are contributing partners of the emotional spectrum’s diametric extremities. Romance amplifies life’s little joys making them transcendent experiences for which to wax eloquent. Leaves stirred by a brisk springtime breeze become the strings of nature’s orchestra. Tragedy elongates life’s shortcomings..