Time
You know, if you set your phone on "vibrate" and stand it on a table on its base, and get someone to call your phone, your phone can start dancing around, still standing up, on the table. Try it! It's so cool!
Katie showed me this great discovery one day when we were both in my room and she was doing her essay while I was lying on the bed eating pizza. That was the night I talked in my sleep and she recorded my "sleepy talk".
Now she's in France, for three months, and I wonder if you ever become used to missing someone, to the feeling of them not being there. It hurts when you realise that some day you will just become used to missing a person. I remember the time I went to the Philippines. We went to a little village called Cabugao and stayed for a week there. Everyday we would play the guitar together, sing together, work together, and we became very close. When I left, I couldn't see them waving for the tears. They ran alongside our van, waving, and I couldn't smile. But now it's been 4 years since, and I've just become used to the feeling of them not being beside me.
When I saw Katie for the last time she was standing beside my train waving, and it seemed as though we were going to see each other very soon again, that we had only spent a nice day out together and that we would soon be in the library studying together and having breaks where we would buy Kinder Bueno chocolate, where we would sit on the library steps and chat, or go to the gym and try to work off the excess study fat.
I try not to think about leaving this place, I try to live in the present and to treasure my times with people here. With some of my friends, I always feel as though I'm in the presence of greatness. I always see so many things I admire about them and always think that they will become great one day. That's why, when I spend time with them, I always have a sense of awe. Even though I know I may never see them again, I really want to seize every day, every moment, that we're together.
Time is so short. Tick tock tick tock, and people come and go and whirl in and out of your life. How are you going to leave a lasting legacy in theirs?
Katie showed me this great discovery one day when we were both in my room and she was doing her essay while I was lying on the bed eating pizza. That was the night I talked in my sleep and she recorded my "sleepy talk".
Now she's in France, for three months, and I wonder if you ever become used to missing someone, to the feeling of them not being there. It hurts when you realise that some day you will just become used to missing a person. I remember the time I went to the Philippines. We went to a little village called Cabugao and stayed for a week there. Everyday we would play the guitar together, sing together, work together, and we became very close. When I left, I couldn't see them waving for the tears. They ran alongside our van, waving, and I couldn't smile. But now it's been 4 years since, and I've just become used to the feeling of them not being beside me.
When I saw Katie for the last time she was standing beside my train waving, and it seemed as though we were going to see each other very soon again, that we had only spent a nice day out together and that we would soon be in the library studying together and having breaks where we would buy Kinder Bueno chocolate, where we would sit on the library steps and chat, or go to the gym and try to work off the excess study fat.
I try not to think about leaving this place, I try to live in the present and to treasure my times with people here. With some of my friends, I always feel as though I'm in the presence of greatness. I always see so many things I admire about them and always think that they will become great one day. That's why, when I spend time with them, I always have a sense of awe. Even though I know I may never see them again, I really want to seize every day, every moment, that we're together.
Time is so short. Tick tock tick tock, and people come and go and whirl in and out of your life. How are you going to leave a lasting legacy in theirs?
3 Comments:
miss you ruthie, have little inet access at mo, but will email asap, take care x x x ktx
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Anonymous, at 1:22 pm
miss you ruthie, have little inet access at mo, but will email very soon, take care kt x x x x x
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