Lists

questions:

• are we who we are to ourselves, or to the people around us?
• if God didn't want Adam and Eve to eat the fruit from the tree, why did he create the tree?
• do you ever wonder what kind of filter you are viewing the world through right now?
• where is the line drawn when repetition makes a thing lose its meaning instead of emphasising it?

I was going to elaborate on those, but I might have ended up answering them myself.

good things:

• nostalgic music
• travelling by car
• taking off in a plane
• strong opinions
• empty neighborhoods
• how the sun shines a few hours before it actually sets
• windy days (the not-obnoxious ones)
• harry potter movies (esp. the first two)
• people when they smile
• people when they 'get' you
• when you 'get' someone else
• bobby pins
• how time flies when it's nighttime (and you're awake)
• secondhand books
• writing on the first page of a new journal
• hats
• laughing until you cry (or)
• seeing someone laughing until they cry
• re-reading a book after a long time
• taking the perfect picture
• water
• chocolate flavoured things
• lazy sundays
• nice haircuts
• comfortable socks
• seeing someone you know in a room of strangers
• lists
• dressing in layers

Etc.

what to remember:

• chapstick
• you are not fat

I know there are more things, but I forgot.

technology i hate:

• toilets that flush automatically

I'm serious, like you have no idea how paranoid I am about those things.

words i like:

• clever
• encyclopaedia
• eyelashes
• dusty
• fascination
• fluttering
• foreign
• ignorant
• iridescent
• lackluster
• linguistic
• lizard
• mascara
• mock
• mustache
• oblique
• quixotic
• sasquatch
• simplicity
• skeptical
• sweltering
• tedious
• translucent
• vast
• veracity

In alphabetical order because it's fun :)

words that don't exist in the english language:

• l’esprit d’escalier: (French) the feeling you get after leaving a conversation, when you think of all the things you should have said. Translated it means “the spirit of the staircase”
• waldeinsamkeit: (German) the feeling of being alone in the woods
• meraki: (Greek) doing something with soul, creativity, or love
• forelsket: (Norwegian) the euphoria you experience when you are first falling in love
• gigil: (Filipino) the urge to pinch or squeeze something that is unbearably cute
• pochemuchka: (Russian) a person who asks a lot of questions
• pena ajena: (Mexican Spanish) the embarrassment you feel watching someone else’s humiliation
• cualacino: (Italian) the mark left on a table by a cold glass
• ilunga: (Tshiluba, Congo) a person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time

(retrieved from here)

life:

• I can't stop thinking about going to Arizona
• korean music is really good
• hey arnold! was one of my favourite shows so I've been watching it again
• my hair is considerably long now
• I've given up on wearing makeup

other:

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Even in a stranger passing on the street,
Even in those leaves dancing in the wind with a lonely dance,
Even in the air brushing past my cheeks in the evening,
You are there in everything I see, hear, feel.

And how are you?

↑ I drew this, it's a cup.

I really do want to post more often on blogger. Whenever I log in, I can't un-log in. You know, you know. And like I always do, I direct you to here.

How have you been? :)