...or get busy dying. So said the character Andy Dufresne in Shawshank Redemption and as Ellis 'Red' Redding said, that's goddamn right. I watched it on Monday night for the umpteenth time and the line really struck a chord. You can't change what's gone before but you can do something about the future and if you don't live the future then you're already dead. So I decided to stop moping. Sure, I'm still sad, of course I am, but you can't live your life in self-pity and regret. You have to get over it and move on and do whatever it takes to be happy...
Friday, September 10, 2010
Monday, September 06, 2010
Posted by Captain Flymo on 10:25 pm with No comments
It would seem that from the language involved there is absolutely no hope of getting back together. The first time I say "I love you" to a girl and it is wasted and I end up spending all my energy in despair and a black, black depression. It all seems so pointless now. I feel as though I will never meet anyone else like this again. Life just looks like a dull procession of routine and drudgery marked only by the growing nights and smudged by the grey, wet days. If this is love, why do we strive for it so hard? It seems, from this viewpoint, a cruel...
Sunday, September 05, 2010
Posted by Captain Flymo on 8:21 pm with No comments
It's funny. I never knew it was possible to feel at once so utterly and excruciatingly frightened and sad yet be so filled with a love that brings warmth to the coldest of places. Right now I'm sitting on a busy inter-city train under harsh, unforgiving strip lights making my way home and therefore by extension closer to the reason for that love. And I both dread and long for the experience. This very train, were I to stay on it, would take me to the place where the girl I am so hopelessly and totally in love with lives. A part of me says "Stay...
Saturday, September 04, 2010
Posted by Captain Flymo on 8:55 am with No comments
Gentlemen, take note. No matter how much you think you're a decent, modern man in tune with his feelings and able to share, I guarantee you there will come a time in life when you conform to every stereotype of the reticent male there has ever been. I thought I was modern and able to share and talk about feelings but at the crunch moment I discovered that in fact I was the complete antithesis of everything I had always believed myself to be in that regard. It rather astonished me, but worse than that it may have caused irreperable damage...
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