I’ve seen them a few times already.
The twinkling eyes and the tired minds.
Colliding into sparks.
Burns brighter every time.
But fading when the curtain closed.
I see them everywhere now.
It’s not considered escaping.
They just want to burn brighter.
In ways they know best.
(3/7 of #7daysofblackandwhite)
It might be far, but not too far.
This ticket will keep you moving.
One way or another.
I know it’s hard to leave all you have.
But you can come back here someday.
When the bay it’s clear and everything is back to how it supposed to be.
You’ll understand that I cannot define someday by time unit.
But the train is here and you need to go.
Oh, you’ll understand why.
It’s not me who wants you to leave.
I can just say a few things
Ask as many things as you can to the other people you’ll meet.
Eat their signature food.
Learn their languages.
Someday, you’ll understand why this station doesn’t move and you’re the one that moves.
(2/7 of #7daysofblackandwhite)
This waiting room holds the biggest number of people. All waits in nervousness, ready to be called. It’s a raffle by the way. So we don’t know whose turn will be next.
The staff pulls one number every 5 minutes and it’s been a while since we’ve been here. I don’t know about the guy at the back, he seems furious and may explode anytime. Some people start to cry. The couple by the window cries the hardest and looks like they run out of the air.
Will that happen to us? Sooner or later? This tiredness, the anxiousness, and the sadness. All pileup, a mixture of an uncomfortable feeling.
Of waiting for the hope to come.
(1/7 of #7daysofblackandwhite)
This year is pretty exhausting for me personally. Although I need to be thankful that in our 3rd year, we finally get to bring our products to a brick & mortar store, it’s required a lot of extra works we didn’t anticipate before. It consumed more of our time and energy, dealing with one obstacle to another. We learned quite a lot and gained a lot of knowledge on how the retail world actually works. Though we’re still baby crawl into the dark, at least we already put the first step into it.
As 2018 draws closer, I need to focus on preparing the next year collection. Last year, I was pretty sure and ready with my theme concept. I have a clear vision of the theme and the direction I want to take. We ended up releasing only 1 set of collection, breaking our own promise of releasing 2 sets of collections per year. I think the collection was well-received and I didn’t need to sacrifice myself to create such a mainstream design like the abstract-brush-strokes-watercolor design.
The power of internet had brought me to read Neil Gaiman’s essays long before I read one of his books. In an essay called All Books Have Genders, Gaiman wrote an interesting take on how to see and perceive a story. I wonder if my writings have one.
I wrote a lot of fictional stories before, in short passages, or a pretty much longer one. But do they even have common threads, other than written by the same person?
They rarely take a female’s perspective. They talk romance in a non-romantic way. Do they even have feelings?
Do I even have feelings?
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