Tag: In English

  • Summer solstice musings

    I passed. Not away, but the dissertation. I have a Master’s degree. I’m not a student any longer. How do I feel about it? I don’t know. Triumph? Relief? Joy? Calm? I guess those are the kinds of things I ought to be feeling. But I don’t know. I have…

  • Quoth the tired astronomer

    Imagine looking up into the sky at night, toward the stars that faintly glow, to curse your human mind for being slow and yet unable to cease asking why. Those distant lights insist on passing by, around the Earth and through your mind they go, suggesting that there is so…

  • Being ever unprepared

    Suddenly I find myself in Prague. As unprepared as ever. Gods damn it, how can it be that I travel so much and still stress out completely every single time? Flailing around at the last minute, not having fixed half of what I had intended to do before setting out.…

  • A Thousand Nights, further continued

    One Thousand and One Arabian Nights, Vol 5 of 16 by Anonymous My rating: 3 of 5 stars 500+ nights into the relentless storytelling. More lessons learned: – If you follow through on your curiosity against your better judgement, don’t fret too much about it. You were probably destined to…

  • These cursed ambitions

    Sometimes I wonder what contentment tastes like. I used to yearn for so many things. Trivial and grandiose. Achievable and impossible. Now I mostly yearn for the pressure to be taken off. Perhaps it is a pressure I’ve enthusiastically submitted myself to in becoming a student, but even so it…

  • One day

    The unbroken spirit obscured and disquiet  Finds clearness this trial demands  And at the end of this day sighs an anxious relief  For the fortune lies still in his hands  If there’s a pensive fear, a wasted year  A man must learn to cope  If his obsession’s real  Suppression that…

  • Just keep on trying

    Have you ever looked into the mirror and seen nothing but despair staring back at you from behind your own eyes? Have you ever felt stress coiling around your chest like a boa constrictor, for weeks and weeks? Have you ever looked around you only to find a world that…

  • Too much light far too soon

    I sleep all right, but still I’m so tired. It’s that time of year, I guess. When the light wakes up before I do and hurts my eyes. Making mud from snow and hurrying the flowers up from their beds while I’m left way behind. I wish I was ready…

  • Inexplicable delight

    Maybe sometimes happiness has a reason. But I think most of the time you simply find yourself with happiness thrust upon you, while you seek to rationalise to yourself the cause of this emotion. This has its uses, I’m sure; if you can identify correlations that may help you do…