#1

  “You are the books you read, the movies you watch, the music you listen to, the people you meet, the dreams you have, the conversations you engage in. You are what you take from these. You are the sound of the ocean, the breathe of fresh air, the brightest light and the darkest corner….

Attachment

“I don’t understand myself sometimes,” she glances at the window thoughtfully. The sun hasn’t been out since last Monday, and the wind blew icily against my bare shoulders. She turned around to face me, “Don’t get me wrong; this doesn’t bother me as much, rather peaks into my curiosity about myself.” “I like to think…

#72

“Often, I drift in and out of wanting to exist. What I mean by exist, I mean being visible. Being given attention to; even for the tiniest second. So it’s always been quite peculiar to me how I’m so very comfortable sitting between sometimes wanting attention, and sometimes not wanting to even be perceived. Today’s…

I’m real.

“I might need this as a constant reminder; till I don’t need to be scaffold-ed through coping mechanisms. But sometimes, I can do it myself. Sometimes, I watch me wipe my tear off my cheek. The yellow light above my bathroom mirror helps shake the perceptive filter off; portraying my raw expression and the resided…

#71

“That’s the thing about our deepest fears; they’re never rational. Because if they were, we’d have learned to stop fearing them.” – Sugithaa Paraman

#70

“Am I as unacknowledgable as the part of the sky above the sunset?” – Sugithaa Paraman

#69

“What’s the reason for your survival: guilt or will?” – Sugithaa Paraman

Human

“I don’t want to feel nothing. I don’t want to miss out on emotion; no matter how hard I stray from it. I still want tears in my eyes, still want to struggle to breathe with melancholy and joy, still want to stare into nothing and feel my throat go hoarse as my mind swirls…

Subtle

“I felt.. um,” I pondered for a minute as I held the phone on my ear, phrasing my words right as she waited patiently. “..it felt sad, of course. But it wasn’t something you’d expect to be direct. The sadness that came with it was more indirective in nature; like it was hidden.”I took a…

#68

“I presume you’re like a leaf floating in a pond on a hot summer afternoon. Half of you burns with bright, scorching kinetic, and the other with a dim, temporary calm. And I can’t seem to diminish my fascination in how you balance the scales of nature within you.” -Sugithaa Paraman

#67

“Maybe this is a chance to test yourself. Maybe this is what you wanted; a challenge. Maybe you can overcome this.” – Sugithaa Paraman