Tag: #inthemoment
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Silent Night
Night is quiet. All I can hear is the machanical wheels turning in the humidifier; and the constant buzzing in my ears. The tiny little buzzing sound is like a group of crikets singing in the faraway bushes. If I don’t pay attention, it can be easily missed. Then there comes the chatters. It gets…
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Blank
I am drawing a blank. In fact, I have been in this blank state of mind, or rather, an extremely muddy mind, for weeks. I started on five different drafts on different topics; none of which had more than one complete paragraph. Ideas kept on bubbling up in front of me, however, I can’t seem…
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20 20
“Twenty years” sounds so long. Yes, I am having one of those senior moments before making my new year resolution. Twenty years ago, I just entered junior high. My parents gave me a silver Discman, replacing my Walkman, and a purple little Nokia phone. Time was moving slower back then as I remembered. I spent…
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Back On Track
It’s funny how my mind can be at its quietest moment in a noisy little coffee shop. If you pay attention, you can hear the symphony of espresso machine buzzing, glassware being struck by metal spoons, people laughing and chatting over the background music and the occasional car engine “vrooming” on the street outside. Yet,…
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Hiking
“It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” -Edmund Hillary As a goalgetter, I hesitate before taking on another challenge onto my already overflowing plate. Until that task is finished and ”checked off”, it is nothing more than a TO-DO on my list mixed with other tasks like “get grocery” and “refill prescription”. And since…
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