45 life lessons - written by the now 90 year old Regina Brett

1. Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good.2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.4. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.5. Pay off your credit cards every month.6. You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.7. Cry with someone. It’s more healing than crying...
March 11th, 2011 at 04:25pm

Life changes

I was never popular.I was never the one that was chosen as the first in a team sport.I never said: "I'm starting."I was never brave enough to say that I deserve a better grade.I never thought, "I make this. I can do that. I am well prepared."I was never one that was invited to all birthday parties.I have never held out until the end.I was never a person who was treated with respect.I was never an...
March 11th, 2011 at 04:15pm

Breath. Life. Words missing.

Words missing. Overrunning you. Letting you injured lying on the dusty streets . The sky so blue. Bluer than usual. What a blue? You do not like it. It is so blue.Your head buzzes and rattles. The lips open. The velvety dust sticks to your tongue, the heat passes by your lips. You can not breathe. Can't do it for a long time. Why trying again? Every breath, you getting no air, rends your lung....
January 15th, 2011 at 01:18am

Coldness

Winter depression. A term that is totally foreign to me. What is more beautiful than the smell of wet leaves around you if you wander in the dark through the cold streets?Anhören Umschrift The sound of earth and wet grass under your shoes when everything is pushed into the ground, the rain in your face, let you live, let you feel alive.Coldness. Coldness is good. Can be good because ... you can...
January 15th, 2011 at 01:17am

Keep your feet on the ground

I have never loved. I've fighted it. All passionated feelings I projected to fictitious persons. Keyword: Jacob Black.Why? Because I'm afraid. I'm not pretty. I'm not sweet, cute. I am in no case nice or funny. I am such an indefinable something-in-between. Terrible un-cute. Funny, on the unpleasant kind. And because of that I was scared.I didn't want to fall in love. Because I wouldn't love back....
January 15th, 2011 at 01:16am

But first I have to sleep!

I was once an incredibly positive girl. I laughed, sparkled with courage and had dreams. Goals. Kinky, those you dream of on rainy saturdays. That brought me to smile . And "normal" dreams. School-leaving exam, medicine study. And something has happened. I don't know what. However, suddenly everything makes no difference to me. And suddenly I do not care.Do you lose courage so easily? I don't know...
January 15th, 2011 at 01:15am