"It is a curious thing, but as one travels the world getting older and older, it appears that happiness is easier to get used to than despair. The second time you have a root beer float, for instance, your happiness at sipping the delicious concoction may not be quite as enormous as when you first had a root beer float, and the twelfth time your happiness may be still less enormous, until root beer floats begin to offer you very little happiness at all, because you have become used to the taste of vanilla ice cream and root beer mixed together. However, the second time you find a thumbtack in your root beer float, your despair is much greater than the first time, when you dismissed the thumbtack as a freak accident rather than part of the scheme of a soda jerk, a phrase which here means "ice cream shop employee who is trying to injure your tongue," and by the twelfth time you find a thumbtack, your despair is even greater still, until you can hardly utter the phrase "root beer float" without bursting into tears. It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it."
-LS

i like the rain and i like thinking of you when i look out the window

She decided to free herself, dance into the wind, create a new language. And birds fluttered around her, writing "yes" into the sky.

music was supposed to bring people closer

And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of bad times because of those songs. And how many people enjoyed good times with those songs. And how much those songs really mean. I think it would be great to have written one of those songs. I bet if I wrote one of them, I would be very proud. I hope the people who wrote those songs are happy. I hope they feel it's enough. I really do because they've made me happy. And I'm only one person.

sometimes i touch old letters that you sent me, looking for the echoes of your fingers

My whole life revolves around your absence, until I can't remember what I was or what I am, who I know or what I know or where I go, every moment was that moment, every day was that day, second was that second, and I've lost myself again.

my blood type is caffeine

Things I Like About Coffee
-Coffee is hot
-Coffee makes me excited
-Coffee is good enough to have every day
-Coffee smells good
-Coffee makes you nervous sometimes
-Coffee gives you warm and fuzzies
-Even when coffee is too strong or too weak, it is still good.

Things I Like About You
-Pretty much the same as coffee

and who knows, maybe you taste good and keep me up all night too.