“A Year Has Passed And You Still Think Of Her. But You No Longer Know If The “her” In Your Mind

“A year has passed and you still think of her. But you no longer know if the “her” in your mind is the “her” in real life. Memories come in flashes. The way she laughed so hard one time, she fell off the bed. The time she cried at a Christmas advert on TV. You remember the first present she ever got you, a small music box from Venice. You remember her eyes wide, in anticipation, and then in relief: “I love it." You remember smoothing her wet hair from her face that time she came home in the rain; mascara smudged, running down both cheeks. You called her panda and she laughed. You remember her laugh. You remember the nervousness at meeting her family for the first time. Then, stepping into her childhood bedroom, and everything starting to make sense. You remember pointing to a box on top of her bookshelf. "What’s that?” you asked. “Memories,” she said. “It’s a box full of memories.” “Can I see?” you asked. “No,” she said, “they’re things from the past. And that’s where they belong.” Later, you realised that she meant they were memories of the people she had loved. She’d always amazed you with the way that she could so easily move on. “The past is the past,” she liked to say. Now, you are her past. And she is yours. The only difference is that you still think of her. And you cannot help but wonder if she ever thinks of you, or whether you are simply a part of the box at the top of her shelf.”

— Sue Zhao // Memory Box

Wrinkles

Every fold on her skin tells a story,

Every crevice and every scar tells a story of love and the sacrifice she made for that love.

A woman's love is deep, deeper than the ocean. She steps away from some of the things she want. She puts her family's need before her own.

When you look closer to her body which now looks a little shorter due to the weight of responsibility on her shoulders.

She is now at peace with the decisions she has made over the decades and continues to make.

She is now truly in better place with herself. Every new wrinkle that forms on her body leads to weariness but her eyes still hold that spark which never dims.

She welcomes new people into her life and cares for them.

Now that age has caught up with her and she is now a little slower than rest of the world.

She now forgets little things and slowly dims down. She loses a part of her strength everyday.

But let us never forget to go along with her side by side.. With the a little slower speed than the rest of the world.

Let us now spend some time with this wonder woman of our family.

Let us try to unravel those mysteries behind her every wrinkle.

Classic Book Recommendations For Each Hogwarts House

Gryffindor

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Henry V by William Shakespeare

Beowulf

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Histories by Herodatus

Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

Hufflepuff

East of Eden by John Stenbeck

Othello by William Shakespeare

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Love In the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

White Fang by Jack London

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Ravenclaw

Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Odyssey by Homer

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Slytherin

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Dracula by Bram Stoker

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lovepokemonmaster

6 years ago

Songs that make my mind travel

Most of these songs don’t really talk about traveling, but they remind me of travel because I would listen to them on the plane or on the bus, because I associate them in a certain place, because I discovered them on the road, or because I associate them with a travel movie. So here are my favorite travel songs :)

Wait - M83

Midnight city - M83 (I’ve been jamming to this song on buses for months)

The lonesome boatman - Dropkick Murphys (my favorite song for hiking)

Especially me - Low (the best song to listen to when you’re trying to fall asleep on a night bus)

Home - Passenger

Der einsame Hirte - Leo Rojas (this is the song I woke up to every day while I was in Peru, so I can say that I know this song pretty well ^^)

El condor pasa - Simon & Garfunkel

Come together - Aerosmith (I discovered this song at a concert in Uruguay, there are many versions of it and now it’s my “Uruguay song”)

Leaving tomorrow - Bastian Baker

Hotel California - Eagles

Long nights - Eddie Vedder

Hard sun - Eddie Vedder

Guaranteed - Eddie Vedder

Dream - Imagine dragons

Song for a dream - Indochine

J’t’enmène au vent - Louise Attaque (this song is special to me because this is the song we would listen to all the time in the family car when I was a kid and we went on holidays)

Ch’Uwa Yaku Kawsaypuni - Luzmila Carpio

Porque te vas - Los Pukas (to be honest, I don’t like this song that much but I heard it in EVERY bus I’ve took in Peru so now I feel very nostalgic every time I listen to it)

Schengen - Rafaël

150 ans - Rafaël

Desert rose - Sting

Like gold - Vance Joy

Conquest of spaces - Woodkid

Step out - Jose Gonzalez

Into the sun - Sons of the East

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