Saturday, 25 December 2021

letters to people i love: the one that ends us.

 


i wanted to tell you multiple times. years before my 24th. i waned to tell you about how guilty i felt for choosing you, instead of her. but i knew she’d always be around. i wanted to work on you and i because i had never had a person like you before. i wanted to tell you in person but i somehow always ended up intoxicated and shied away. or maybe it was because i could not muster up the courage to do it. so i have once settled for the safest of places for me, paper, (and of course you will here it over phone) - so here goes…


we are not friends. or at least i don’t want to be your friend for a while. and i don’t know how long „a while“ is for the two of us but i do know it begins now. i thought a lot about the first time i asked for space and i was guilted into forgiving you. i didn’t want to forgive you. i wanted you to come after me… to ask me to talk about what was wrong but you didn’t. rather you had everyone else tell me how sorry you were without actually saying it. then we had the „incident“ where you publicly ridiculed me in front of our friends. and i think that’s how it started… the point that i started disliking you because i didn’t want to hate you. i could never bring myself to do such thing. 


this friendship… what we have/had has meant the world to me. we connected deeper than i ever with anyone. we were both shitty people for a time but found our way back and that was my favourite thing about us. at least i thought it was. i‘ve realised that it wasn’t. rather it was merely confusion on my part that we were in this together. oh how absolutely wrong i was. because you have never put in any effort. you’ve never asked about how i am. never come to see me first. it’s always been me making the first move despite the fact that if someone were to ask me your favourite or food, i wouldn’t have a clue. essentially it’s been a chore where i have fought to hold us up because i was scared of losing you. but not anymore because i honestly could’ve used a friend in the past couple of years. but you don’t qualify as that anymore because a real friend would know about all the crap i‘ve been dealing with lately. and it sucks because i always thought that i’d have you for forever... somehow i thought i would see you forever. 









Wednesday, 1 December 2021

ramblings.

 



i could’ve used a friend but you don’t qualify as that anymore. because a real friend would know about all the crap i‘ve been dealing with lately. i don’t think we can be friends for a while.





i think one of my most pronounced personality traits is the inability to choose anything



Really? Do I look welcoming to you?



Auf alles, was uns glücklich macht

Tuesday, 9 November 2021

von mir - on the things I have learnt in 2021

 




1. the closer people are, the easier it is to hurt each other. and I have hurt a lot of people. unintentionally, of course. so I have chosen to let go of most. I'm still coming to grapple with their absence and what it now means for me. 

2. letters to people I love: 

I want you to know I'm still here 

just because I have not spoken/texted you in a while - it does not mean that I don't think of you often. 

3. "Der Menschheit würde ist in eure hand gegeben, bewahre sie." - life lessons from a building in Wiesbaden. 

4. because of all the adventures that I have been so fortunate to have, not only have I been educated, challenged and enriched. but I have also developed a love for languages. because I understand that importance and act of respectability that learning your travel destination's native tongue can have on one's onset. 

5. adele studied: Epidemiology - the study of how disease spread.

she had a tough break in the second half of 2021. 

6. sustainable "killing" in return for "sustainable fishing" - Oceana, Cowspiracy

7. somehow I thought I would see you forever. 

how very wrong I was. 

8. we revolt because we can no longer breathe"  



Monday, 13 September 2021

Monday, 16 August 2021

afghanistan.

 


dear afghanisatan...

i am so sorry for what the world has done to you. 

you deserved better than what you got. 

Wednesday, 11 August 2021

letters to people that I love: a follow-up from the bus journey [18]

 




we are not in each other's lives, 

we haven't spoken in a long time.


but i am very happy for him. 


i always will be,

and i wish him nothing but the best. 

Tuesday, 25 May 2021

for a life at fifty.

 



I think I'm terrified of writing 

on this platform, I mean. 


I have so much to tell you but who's going to be there to pick me up

like last time

because I don't have that person anymore. 


and it really sucks because I feel like I was more than myself when I was writing to you,

to whoever stumbled upon these inconsequential ramblings of mine. 

I guess I just feel like 

if I were to fall again, I wouldn't be able to get back up again

or at least, I wouldn't want to. 

Saturday, 15 May 2021

the tea you didn't know series. [1]

 




[i have never look outside for love when it came to you 

i only did so when you started taking a week to text me back]