And even this...

I'm single. I want to help Kristen Stewart. I go by Sydney Jaded. You may call me either.
Or just SJ.
Broken brain. Fractured heart. Killer smile. Wicked sense of humor.

In the face of the beautiful-awful-tragic-absurd-mundane-heartbreaking-impossible-wonderful,
all I can think to say is:
and even this...

“I record my life, sifting and trying to separate what is real from what I’ve dreamed. I have decided not to tell you what is fact versus what is unfact primarily because (a) I am giving you a portrait of the essence of me, and (b) because, living where I do, living in the chasm that cuts through thought, it is lonely… come with me, reader. I am toying with you, yes, but for a real reason. I am asking you to enter the confusion with me, to give up the ground with me, because sometimes that frightening floaty place is really the truest of all. Kierkegaard says, 'The greatest lie of all is the feeling of firmness beneath our feet. We are most honest when we are lost.' Enter that lostness with me. Live in the place I am, where the view is murky, where the connecting bridges and orienting maps have been surgically stripped away.”
— Lauren Slater

“I want to be remembered as the girl who always smiles even when her heart is broken, and the one that could always brighten up your day even if she couldn’t brighten her own.”

AIM: andeventhis
Email: andeventhis[at]aim[dot]com

I have serious problems with Helen Keller

Me: “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.” "Dark" and "light." Really? How'd they teach her that?
My mother: You can feel it. You can feel when the light hits you.
Me: She was blind!
My mother: You can feel it, Jane.
Me: Ok fine. Fine. Let's say I grant you "dark" and "light." Fine. "Rather"?? How'd they teach her "rather"? Could she feel that when it hit her??
My mother: She was a savage. She was a savage and they civilized her!
Me: That's just a metaphor for Black/Pacific Islander/Pre-Colombian Mesoamericans! This Helen Keller story is about racism!
My mother: Wooooowwwww Jane. That is a bridge to nowhere. I see why you like Sarah Palin now. You two are quite fond of that bridge.

∞ 1 month ago

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