<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772049840961263354</id><updated>2011-04-21T16:18:47.980-05:00</updated><category term='adult children of divorce'/><category term='control'/><category term='identity crisis'/><category term='sunday'/><category term='MY PHOTO SO PLS ATTRIB'/><category term='editing_minimal'/><category term='photography'/><category term='divorce'/><category term='epiphany'/><category term='self-forgiveness'/><category term='separation'/><category term='all stops'/><category term='rapid cycling'/><category term='cats'/><category term='aging'/><category term='lining the border'/><category term='kitty'/><category term='life'/><category term='ranting'/><category term='sleep-deprivation'/><category term='introspection'/><category term='pathology'/><category term='wisdom'/><category term='flickr'/><category term='thoughts'/><category term='retrospection'/><category term='outrospection'/><category term='digital art'/><category term='losing control'/><category term='agnostic'/><category term='contemplation'/><category term='matthew good'/><title type='text'>expired convictions</title><subtitle type='html'>Yours to recover...</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://expiredconvictions.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6772049840961263354/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://expiredconvictions.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Ankakay</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MRgjxU7Tfmg/TPaRyUNjvBI/AAAAAAAAAB8/A1z38cKrBDw/S220/south-park-captain-marvel-papercraft.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>8</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772049840961263354.post-3377072085792715640</id><published>2007-03-21T00:16:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-04-19T11:22:55.428-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='photography'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='self-forgiveness'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='outrospection'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='contemplation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='editing_minimal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wisdom'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='all stops'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='agnostic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='MY PHOTO SO PLS ATTRIB'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='digital art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='introspection'/><title type='text'>The Stark Reality ;)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.expired-convictions.com"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;ॐ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://localhost:2056/7d495ef3b65205f5b775f57434363b48/image3763.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://localhost:2056/7d495ef3b65205f5b775f57434363b48/image3763.jpg?size=400" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6772049840961263354-3377072085792715640?l=expiredconvictions.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://expiredconvictions.blogspot.com/feeds/3377072085792715640/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6772049840961263354&amp;postID=3377072085792715640' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6772049840961263354/posts/default/3377072085792715640'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6772049840961263354/posts/default/3377072085792715640'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://expiredconvictions.blogspot.com/2007/03/stark-reality.html' title='The Stark Reality ;)'/><author><name>Ankakay</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MRgjxU7Tfmg/TPaRyUNjvBI/AAAAAAAAAB8/A1z38cKrBDw/S220/south-park-captain-marvel-papercraft.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772049840961263354.post-4581613737525304984</id><published>2007-02-15T15:53:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-23T16:40:17.168-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aging'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cats'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kitty'/><title type='text'>We all... get older.  [Kitty humiliation.]</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhgoizI7m50"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhgoizI7m50&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6772049840961263354-4581613737525304984?l=expiredconvictions.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://expiredconvictions.blogspot.com/feeds/4581613737525304984/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6772049840961263354&amp;postID=4581613737525304984' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6772049840961263354/posts/default/4581613737525304984'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6772049840961263354/posts/default/4581613737525304984'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://expiredconvictions.blogspot.com/2007/02/we-all-get-older.html' title='We all... get older.  [Kitty humiliation.]'/><author><name>Ankakay</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MRgjxU7Tfmg/TPaRyUNjvBI/AAAAAAAAAB8/A1z38cKrBDw/S220/south-park-captain-marvel-papercraft.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772049840961263354.post-1535284008731138923</id><published>2007-02-15T01:06:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-15T14:19:15.900-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='matthew good'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='flickr'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='contemplation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='digital art'/><title type='text'>A Life Spent</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MRgjxU7Tfmg/RdP5JbTMFAI/AAAAAAAAAAM/GCIaGpSQDD4/s1600-h/alifespent.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MRgjxU7Tfmg/RdP5JbTMFAI/AAAAAAAAAAM/GCIaGpSQDD4/s400/alifespent.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5031639149045355522" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Too true, at times. Bless you, Matthew Good.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The image at his flickr account:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/unicornsof911/193769851/"&gt;http://www.flickr.com/photos/unicornsof911/193769851/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6772049840961263354-1535284008731138923?l=expiredconvictions.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://expiredconvictions.blogspot.com/feeds/1535284008731138923/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6772049840961263354&amp;postID=1535284008731138923' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6772049840961263354/posts/default/1535284008731138923'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6772049840961263354/posts/default/1535284008731138923'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://expiredconvictions.blogspot.com/2007/02/life-spent.html' title='A Life Spent'/><author><name>Ankakay</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MRgjxU7Tfmg/TPaRyUNjvBI/AAAAAAAAAB8/A1z38cKrBDw/S220/south-park-captain-marvel-papercraft.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MRgjxU7Tfmg/RdP5JbTMFAI/AAAAAAAAAAM/GCIaGpSQDD4/s72-c/alifespent.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772049840961263354.post-7772100106988991663</id><published>2007-01-10T01:40:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-15T14:18:44.704-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='control'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ranting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='losing control'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rapid cycling'/><title type='text'>Losing it on my own terms (stubborn brute)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MRgjxU7Tfmg/RdRQpbTMFDI/AAAAAAAAAAw/ENP8ZWH8W-w/s1600-h/candle.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MRgjxU7Tfmg/RdRQpbTMFDI/AAAAAAAAAAw/ENP8ZWH8W-w/s200/candle.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5031735356312785970" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;control...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;controlling my own perverted sense of 'losing control'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;changing sides to avoid, not sleeping/not sleeping accompanied or in bed.  or are these just prime examples of the... hindsight-bias(?) logic fallacy?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;control, and either relinquishing it completely or exercising it hyperviligantly.  cycling between the two at this pace is murderous to the senses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;among other things.  &lt;/span&gt;fuck off, i'll claim pyrrho and stop giving you audience at all.  i know it has so much more to do with control than i really know but i will find out... we will find out.  then some more kicking and screaming, grinning and bearing it forward towards the bye-bye of that many more bluebirds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;precious and few are the moments that you and your own worst enemy share&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6772049840961263354-7772100106988991663?l=expiredconvictions.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://expiredconvictions.blogspot.com/feeds/7772100106988991663/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6772049840961263354&amp;postID=7772100106988991663' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6772049840961263354/posts/default/7772100106988991663'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6772049840961263354/posts/default/7772100106988991663'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://expiredconvictions.blogspot.com/2007/01/losing-it-on-my-own-terms-stubborn.html' title='Losing it on my own terms (stubborn brute)'/><author><name>Ankakay</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MRgjxU7Tfmg/TPaRyUNjvBI/AAAAAAAAAB8/A1z38cKrBDw/S220/south-park-captain-marvel-papercraft.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MRgjxU7Tfmg/RdRQpbTMFDI/AAAAAAAAAAw/ENP8ZWH8W-w/s72-c/candle.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772049840961263354.post-7242243618454419206</id><published>2006-12-11T00:46:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-15T15:37:00.772-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='thoughts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lining the border'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='self-forgiveness'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sleep-deprivation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sunday'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pathology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='epiphany'/><title type='text'>Dirty little secrets... [Fantasy]</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MRgjxU7Tfmg/RdROrrTMFCI/AAAAAAAAAAk/QGnUSybsf2c/s1600-h/cig+smoke.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MRgjxU7Tfmg/RdROrrTMFCI/AAAAAAAAAAk/QGnUSybsf2c/s200/cig+smoke.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5031733195944236066" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;... we all have them?  naïve to think not?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;turning around to face them, feigning escape of them (individually, or the whole lot of them), year after year.   confessing  transgressions (real, not-so-real, bullshit) before, now, to come -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;maybe it (that gd song) will get out of my head if i breathe, err, textual life into it)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt; give a little respect TO ME&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; (the overtly repentant reprobate inside always desperate, unpredictable, volatile(...&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;vomit&lt;/span&gt;) yet so much more patient than 'the prominent' and at the ready for-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;nonsensical ... no, exhaustion.  justified.  oh, fuck serial nastiness.  exhaustion of one does not  have to affect all... does it? fighting over the same body and mind... with yourselves. if only- therewasawaytoclubyourselftosleepbutalwaysbeableto- (&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;and you're only just finally picking this one up?&lt;/span&gt; if only-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I never &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;believed&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;(at least not consciously, rationally, logically) that &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;i lived too exclusively in a 'fantasy world'/'my own world' or 'daydreamed' excessively.  at least not to an extent which had actually become [how long had it been] a truly overtly  warped perception  - over the course of much prodding exercises (both external and self-effectuated) that one [. . .blah blah]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;what is 'if only...' if not just that (I'm a serial offender when it comes to 'if onlys').  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;now don't be too quick to run on to the 'next inexplicable, seemingly interminable stage' engulfed with that 'eureka'.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;a titillated bull and restraint.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;it just doesn't come naturally.&lt;/span&gt; but &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;it will&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;\&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;tick&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;/&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;tock&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;\&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; tick &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; tock&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;at times neither dirty, little or even secret.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;at others, you become &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;the dirty little secret.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6772049840961263354-7242243618454419206?l=expiredconvictions.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://expiredconvictions.blogspot.com/feeds/7242243618454419206/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6772049840961263354&amp;postID=7242243618454419206' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6772049840961263354/posts/default/7242243618454419206'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6772049840961263354/posts/default/7242243618454419206'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://expiredconvictions.blogspot.com/2006/12/dirty-little-secrets.html' title='Dirty little secrets... [Fantasy]'/><author><name>Ankakay</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MRgjxU7Tfmg/TPaRyUNjvBI/AAAAAAAAAB8/A1z38cKrBDw/S220/south-park-captain-marvel-papercraft.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MRgjxU7Tfmg/RdROrrTMFCI/AAAAAAAAAAk/QGnUSybsf2c/s72-c/cig+smoke.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772049840961263354.post-8094165468454219489</id><published>2006-10-15T19:23:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-15T01:17:11.560-05:00</updated><title type='text'>arise, period, arise</title><content type='html'>.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6772049840961263354-8094165468454219489?l=expiredconvictions.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://expiredconvictions.blogspot.com/feeds/8094165468454219489/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6772049840961263354&amp;postID=8094165468454219489' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6772049840961263354/posts/default/8094165468454219489'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6772049840961263354/posts/default/8094165468454219489'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://expiredconvictions.blogspot.com/2006/10/blog-post.html' title='arise, period, arise'/><author><name>Ankakay</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MRgjxU7Tfmg/TPaRyUNjvBI/AAAAAAAAAB8/A1z38cKrBDw/S220/south-park-captain-marvel-papercraft.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772049840961263354.post-1176617274343432891</id><published>2004-06-03T15:37:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-15T03:39:33.016-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='identity crisis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='divorce'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='adult children of divorce'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='retrospection'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='separation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='introspection'/><title type='text'>"Trusting this reflects your understanding..."</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;font-size:85%;"  &gt; I shouldn't have looked. It was dad's handwriting in mom's kitchen, though. There's no way I could have stopped myself. It was nothing, really, but it still touched me unduly, jilted my broken heart abruptly and made me realize just how fragile said heart truly is and how I am never aware of that - how I fight constantly and consciously to preserve the umbra I keep that heart tucked into.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;font-size:85%;"  &gt;I mean, I never saw/sensed a whole lotta love (beeeer-wown - it's really hard to type that sound. i'll get it right next time. hah.) between them the decades they were together and I was around them, but it was still... I guess it reminded me of the pain I saw tear through the two of them, and the utter non-understanding I had (and could have sworn I perceived in them). No, not just perceived - it was BLATANTLY obvious. Neither of them of them understood completely. But one had given up long ago, regardless of being able to explain or express reasons why to anyone. And I respect that, even though I didn't and am not sure now if I understand - and I don't think I really need to understand. In fact, I'm quite sure that I don't. The seasons of (what I assume must have been some sort of mutually-satisfying) courtship up to the eventual rotting and final dissolution of their relationship - it doesn't have a whole lot to do with me. Other than, somehow, I am the 'product' of their love. Idealist, yes, but I think I truly believe as children as the product of love. I don't mean necessarily the specific love between the parents. not sure what I mean.. but just... love. (to me), love is akin to inspiration and creation, as are children. much more distinction can be afforded the two, but for now i leave it at that.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;font-size:85%;"  &gt;and whipping through the 'where does this leave me and my existence' - the sense of which was already in quite dire crisis by then. i realize the self-centredness of thinking as such. it's how the child sees the world, though. their world. and i am still very much a child in the sense of how i see the world, and how i relate myself to it. i always felt TOO selfish, and these tendencies of mine were always pointed out very obviously, poignantly, painfully, all in hopes that it would STOP me from being that way. it wasn't really SHOWING me how to or why.. or TEACHING me anything. it was just WRONG and therefore should simply CEASE. For an active and thriving mind, that just doesn't cut it. so the heart takes over, i guess, and tries its 'hand' at making sense of it all. and all it can conclude is that 'what i do is wrong, therefore *I* am wrong'.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6772049840961263354-1176617274343432891?l=expiredconvictions.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://expiredconvictions.blogspot.com/feeds/1176617274343432891/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6772049840961263354&amp;postID=1176617274343432891' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6772049840961263354/posts/default/1176617274343432891'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6772049840961263354/posts/default/1176617274343432891'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://expiredconvictions.blogspot.com/2004/06/trusting-this-reflects-your.html' title='&quot;Trusting this reflects your understanding...&quot;'/><author><name>Ankakay</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MRgjxU7Tfmg/TPaRyUNjvBI/AAAAAAAAAB8/A1z38cKrBDw/S220/south-park-captain-marvel-papercraft.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772049840961263354.post-4129285699511292968</id><published>2004-04-15T16:48:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-15T03:47:23.543-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='identity crisis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lining the border'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='outrospection'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wisdom'/><title type='text'>On the Author...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;font-size:85%;"&gt; &lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;font-size:85%;"&gt;"this is one of those meltdowns that you are having now. you will turn it against yourself later and claim that you were being selfish, and really didn't mean this and that....and not to make anything you feel now to be trivial....but i think the real STUFF that makes you to be YOU is somewhere in the middle of meltdown you and totally apologetic you" &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;mood:&lt;/b&gt; too exhausted to be exhausted&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;music:&lt;/b&gt; air circulating through this sick building&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6772049840961263354-4129285699511292968?l=expiredconvictions.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://expiredconvictions.blogspot.com/feeds/4129285699511292968/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6772049840961263354&amp;postID=4129285699511292968' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6772049840961263354/posts/default/4129285699511292968'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6772049840961263354/posts/default/4129285699511292968'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://expiredconvictions.blogspot.com/2004/04/on-author.html' title='On the Author...'/><author><name>Ankakay</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MRgjxU7Tfmg/TPaRyUNjvBI/AAAAAAAAAB8/A1z38cKrBDw/S220/south-park-captain-marvel-papercraft.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
