I'll Tell You This by squirrel-overlord94, literature
Literature
I'll Tell You This
2007? It's different, sure, but it's halfway through January and I still write '06 when I'm not paying attention.
2007. It's better, right? It's bigger, the next in line at least. Another year gone by, another calendar to purchase. It's not that special.
2007. It's come and soon enough will go. Just like every year, it'll tick on by. So why did we celebrate it as it commenced?
2007? What's it worth to us? It's a number. It doesn't mean anything, really. We're counting years since a religious figure was born.
It's pointless, I tell you, to give reason to a number. A cycle of a few hundred days, a few dozen weeks, neverending but constantly
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Farewell, Count this account as finally deceased.
~Meiresthai (https://www.deviantart.com/meiresthai) If you wish.
No long annotation is necessary, I believe.
Since these people can say it much better than I can, here you go:
www.secular.org
http://www.secular.org/activism/thank_stark_070312.html
Thank you, Pete Stark, you're the greatest!
On my last journal, I had cut it short saying I'd have more to say, all too soon. I did, but in the end, I decided not to share it with you. It's something I'd rather keep. But here's this:
Short version:
Sadie Hawkins found the best way to make guys like me feel even worse about ourselves than usual.
Slightly-longer-but-not-quite-the-long-version-because-I'm-not in-the-mood-to-really-rant-these-days version.
Sadies Dance is going on right now. Has been for an hour, and will continue for another hour and a half, if I'm correct. Where am I? Sitting here at home about to turn on my NES and play the original Final Fantasy game. http://www.ni