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Weekends No Sea

Time, please send these words to the me in the past, in that exact life-changing time line. Make sure these words reach my eyes by all means, as an obvious warning, obvious enough to stop my foolish action.  I'm sitting here, exhausted, hating you for bringing me all the way here. Don't go to the sea every weekend. Two trains, sitting, nine hours one direction, two buses. You know you hate the feeling of not having enough sleep, don't you? So exhausting that you don't know how to express that feeling in words, do you? Quit it, don't go there every weekend, your exhaustion is the universe trying to save you from your silly life-risking decision. Stop going there, please, you're going to hell, you shouldn't do it when it causes you that level of exhaustion. Go home, don't go there anymore. You always cut the connection, don't get blinded by all those numbers, glamour whatever. Your feeling is the only thing you should follow or pursue. Don't go the...
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Untouched Pumpkin

Woke up by the noise at 4 AM. I forced myself to get up, to do the unfinished chores, to cook the pumpkin for my lunchbox. I chopped some garlic and onion, then peeled the pumpkin, remove the seeds, cut it to small cubes. No big enough frying pan or wok, so I just put the garlic and onion into the soup pot, stirred a bit with oil and salt, then added the pumpkin, stirred a bit, then covered the pot, let it simmer for 15 minutes. This sort of pumkin is rich in water, no extra water was added. When the it was cooked, I got half pot of liquid, I sliced some fresh basil I planted in the pot, added it on top. Meanwhile I cleaned the mess left on the counter, the table, the floor. Everyone deserves a cleaning robot. Then I brewed a cup of coffee from the ground beans, that aroma was pleasant. When I rushed out at 8 minutes to 11 AM. I forgot to take my lunchbox. The pumpkin waited for me at the counter, stayed untouched for whole day. I'd eat it tomorrow, too tired to eat anything at nig...

My Tree

My tree has lots of branches. Branches are from the earth, different continents of the earth. I love caressing my tree's branches, same hand, same way, only for my tree. If my eyes are folded, branches of other trees reaching out for my hand, the moment I figured out it's not my tree, I'd break those branches and burn them to ashes.   I love my tree, long, more. I caress only my tree. 

Feet Protected

I've moved around in this tiny space barefoot for years, because in those eyes, their precious wooden floor from the previous dynasty is more valuable than my feet. Anyway, it's not my home or residence, I couldn't afford to have the shoes I bought being tossed, so I let it be. I've endured the tiny dirt on from the floor to my bare feet since five years ago, I hate that feeling, I hate to walk around without shoes, I hate to put on socks with dirt before I rush out. This year, I got a deep and big chapping in my right foot, I couldn't take it anymore. Two days ago, I saw a pair of sandals with solid bottom, I decided to buy them. If they were tossed, I'd buy again. I never expected one day, I could walk around with solid bottoms, to keep my feet warm and clean. I'm so proud of myself, I survived all these years to experience this day.  

In Past Thousand Years

Every time I stand here to charge my phone, the song A Thousand Years plays. The song sings "Darling don't be afraid", "I love you for a thousand more", "All along I believe I'll find you". Over those past thousands years, how many times have we met? Could we recognise every version of us together in the long history river of humankind? Maybe in those past thousand years, we were not together, or happily ever after, we simply loved so hard, so we meet again and again until today.  This time, how the story will go? If you have a pen/pencil that can create whatever you want in real life through the pen/pencil tip, which kind of story will you write for us in this lifetime? 

Silver Moon

At 5:55 PM, I open the door to get some fresh air, a bright silver moon is on the right side, behind the tree branches, on top of a building.  Hi, moon, how are you? All you going to be full again soon?

Hahaha

I was surprised again when the cashier said something to me for, like two or three minutes. With a smile on her face. I didn't get what she said at all, she asked some questions, I guessed, but she said a lot to me. All I could do was smiling and nodding. Wait, didn't netizens say people were quite serious, they never did small chats at the cashier?  It's the same doubt as I have for the well-known stereotype whenever I hear people are laughing literally "hahaha" loudly while chatting. Sometimes, I feel like I'm more like the locals they describe—who never smiles, who always makes a long face in the public. Is it a made-up stereotype or the world just shows up differently to me?