"The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."
~ Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms



"Our lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may touch one another, again bounce away. This is the felt shape of a human life, neither simply linear nor wholly disjunctive nor endlessly bifurcating, but rather this bouncey sequence of bumping into's and tumblings apart."
~ Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet



Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Are You Happy?



"I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me."
~ Margaret Atwood, Lady Oracle



It was late one Monday night and he was alone drinking a beer at a local bar writing words on napkins. It was the bar he first came to years ago to try and forget her. All the liquor, all the empty relationships, all the missing minutes in-between could not kill the pain or erase her memory. He sat and thought he wanted to ask her one question. The one question that had been searching for an answer for years as the sun sank and the sun rose. Harry Chapin was singing, "A Better Place To Be" on the radio as he took a sip of his beer and remembered when he whispered in her ear, "I think I'm falling in love with you" so many lost years ago. And now, tonight, all he wanted to know was if she was happy?


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