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Hello Megs

It is a truth seldom spoken, yet universally felt, that happiness most often finds its fullest form in quiet concealment; indeed, pour vivre heureux, vivons cachés. This wisdom, though appearing to some as merely quaint or evasive, is rather an invitation to the truest contentment—to a life free from the cumbersome obligations of display. She, in her own reflective solitude, found this maxim neither idle nor antiquated, but rather a balm, a gentle urging towards a happiness unencumbered by the weight of society’s ceaseless gaze. In her solitude, where thoughts could meander without the restraint of judgment and heart could blossom without the fetters of worldly expectation, she discovered a depth of joy that neither applause nor approval could bestow—a joy composed not of spectacle but of substance, as enduring as it was unseen. In the cafe, drinking tea, dreaming, not fighting a dragon, often breaking into a run.

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The Cloister of Contentment

  • True Distance

    You don’t know distance until you have shared your bed with someone who’s falling out of love with you. more ›

  • Write

    If I stop writing, we die. Rolling over next to you this morning, it is a moment between dream and reality. I uttered, ‘Are you mad at me?’ You were probably in between waking up and sleeping, and did not… more ›

  • Acceptance 

    I struggle to feel or gain acceptance  more ›

  • Nervous 

    Out of place and not ready .  more ›

  • Remembering

    Don’t you love it when he remembers all the small little things… more ›

  • Wow 

    I don’t know of anyone so obsessively unapologetic… more ›

  • Pandora box 

    After five years, you want me to take a plane ticket and ask that question…  We have taken multiple, too many plane tickets to see one another…  This. This. This. Makes me cry in happiness.  I never thought of asking.… more ›

  • Disciplinarian 

    You have always been the disciplinarian between the two of us. In fact I never thought myself more wise than you to even discipline you. And even so, there are few times that you have had to do it to… more ›

  • The way he looks at her..

    “And I have seen the way he looks at her, and that said it all to me. Cos I can tell that he does cherish her, and that is what she deserves.” 🙂 more ›

  • First impressions 

    So apparently he was incredibly attracted to my accidental haughtiness during our first impression meet up.  He came up to say Hi during our first match together. And he was exchanging words of courtesy and introducing himself as the captain… more ›