He always chokes on
his words when he tries to say
what he sees in me.
3AM Thoughts // AKA “Haiku 203.”
experience
MIND: Stalled
Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.
The Power of Now // Eckhart Tolle
MIND: Sedated
Sometimes, we are so attached to our way of life that we turn down wonderful opportunities simply because we don’t know what to do with it.
Like the Flowing River // Paulo Coelho
SOL: Mistaken
i made loving you
my identity (now i
see how wrong that was)
3AM Thoughts // AKA “Haiku 137.”
SOL: Bungled
laughing at my own
shortcomings, the electric
flourish of defeat
3AM Thoughts // AKA “Haiku 136.”
SOL: Inexperienced
the past loves of my life can
all be summarized simply:
we were too young to know
how to love each other.
3AM Thoughts // AKA “If We’d Met At Any Other Time, We Would’ve Been Fine.“
SOL: Tainted
How much of my own
Personality is drenched
In your fingerprints?
3AM Thoughts // AKA “Haiku 71.”
SOL: Denial
she thinks herself my
friend, yet she is drowning in
repressed dreams of me
3AM Thoughts // AKA “Haiku 58.”
MIND: Merriment
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
// Michel de Montaigne
MIND: Source
When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you.
Meditations // Marcus Aurelius
