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Chaos and Dandelion Wishes

5:16 am Thoughts from yesterday: I still have 1 hour 25 minutes left before work, and I don’t feel like staying at the office  so I decided to walk.  It was a simple walk to enjoy walking,  no direction,  no conscious goal ,  just a walk to kill time.   In walking you tend to have a deeper understanding of things...  It provides one the opportunity to converse with the self,  having furrow of topics , rising and falling ideas,  from light to serious ones, I am definitely damned to this. In approximately 15 meters from where I sit,  I can see moon dandelions blooming. Though I am not pretty sure if that's what they are called because I call the white ones moon dandelions and I call the yellow ones sun dandelions. It is perhaps from a dormant memory from the past, I remember someone telling me this and we both coined up the term. Anyway, Most people would see them as mere weeds. But I see them as wishes. And I'm goin there now, b...

Walking

The reverie of walking – that state where one becomes preoccupied in thinking, an art of fleeing from reality towards a fantasy world created to escape the tragedies of this world. I admit that I cannot escape the harshness and stressful conditions of this reality, and that is the very reason why I choose to cling to this 5 minute walk to the 6th floor -  to this ‘fantasy’ world I created-  Sadly,  the finitude of the stairs makes me wish na sana, nasa 158th floor na lang yung classroom…  It’s in walking that I am lost in my thoughts and in my thought comes realization. A dangerous thing to some but through my realizations, I am able to contemplate and know why things ARE (as well as why things ARE NOT).  This catastrophic spectacle of life happens when I think I am quite certain of something but then I suddenly realize that the 'thing' I thought I already know is slowly escaping my grasp (which most of the time, would leave me hating my stupi...