Stories tagged “learn”

  • My Happy Place

    My happy place has high expectations, and it isn’t everyone’s favorite place to be. Nevertheless, it is a source of great comfort and motivation for me. It is a school. I can see the chalkboard. I can smell the pencil shavings. I fill my brain w...

  • It Isn't Enough

    It’s a part of me that you can’t see. Like real rain in a movie, the lens can’t pick it up, but you know it’s there because the people are getting wet. It’s a part of me that I can’t let you see in person. I can̵...

  • The Perfect Balance

    I’ve always been fascinated by perception. How the way one person sees everything is completely different from another person. How we can never even begin to imagine how different things are to someone else. But even with our completely different...

  • Phases

    It goes through phases The depression The despair The ability to not care But in the moment When something else is learned The pit of it fills up The sickness occurs The ill feeling never backs down It’s the one thing to count on And when it hits...

  • I Am A Mail Giver

    The guy that ate his feelings kept a hidden stash of Fun-Yuns in the bottom right drawer of his desk. The woman who was too peppy for her own good had a picture of herself in high school as a cheerleader to remind herself that at one point her life was...

  • 2009, My Lesson Part 2

    Falling in love taught me more than any teacher could even begin to teach and staring out the window a smile crossed my lips. Knowing in one year I went from tears to a smile, feels remarkable. I know now that 2009 was the best year of my life. It was ...

  • I Learned it the Hard Way

    Love. It’s really beautiful isn’t it. It’s just real. It may not have very much reason, but when you feel it things seem to make a lot more sense. It can make things feel so close to perfect, you can forget what it’s like to be ...

  • Ready and Waiting

    I’m not gonna fuck this up. Really I’m not. I’ve learned some things since last time, and I’ve changed so much. Still old demons never really go away, I don’t think they’re supposed to. The difference is just that ea...