Chapter One - Let's Never Meet Again

It was not long ago that I met this man, who wrote the most beautiful and deep stories I have the pleasure to read everyday like it was the first time. Let me tell you about him. He was a thinker, those that we can barely find in a lifetime worth of search about those unique persons. I often saw him, in his late days, smoking his cigarette by the window, watching the stars, searching for answers. I don't know everything about what he thought about during those moments, but I had the pleasure to know some of those thoughts and better yet, talk about it. I don't remember when I first met him, but I remember how it was. I was sitting at the bar, lost in every single way you can imagine. He was not far from me. I guess he noticed my expression of deep sadness and without looking at me, he spoke to me:

- Life can be quiet a mess sometimes. May I advise you kid, that this will happen more often than you think, but don't let it put you down.

I looked at him in the middle of my yet to find senses and thought "how the hell can you say that without even know me?" but without having the time to spoke it he replied: "I've been down that road before".

I was confused. How could someone say those things just by looking at me? Truth is, the more I knew him, the more I understood his words in that specific day. He wished for a better life, for better days. He never lost his hope in having someone by his side, with a smile on her face. Fate wouldn't give it to him, but instead of losing his ways, he would sit in silence, watching life follow its ways. He knew that he would end up alone, not by choice, but because he embraced his fate. I once had the nerve to ask him about love...

- What do you think about love?

- "I doesn't matter. Is love something I should spend my days trying to describe it? I don't need to. Love is a beautiful feeling, one of the most unique feelings the humankind will ever have the chance to know, but  it is also a dangerous thing. Love hurts? Yes, it does, but love can do so much worse than that. You can find your true love in things and still not able to make them happen. You can find true love in people and not even have it for yourself. Love is like a dream and when you wake up, you may never have it again. You feel alive, but a part of you is dying. If your love, suddenly, goes away, you just die. Love kills."

- May I ask you if did you ever find your true love?

- "My friend, you can ask me everything. You see, love doesn't follow a logic reason. Yes, I did find my true love, but maybe I wasn't ready. Maybe she wasn't ready. Maybe neither any of us was or maybe she deserved better than me. I will never know the answer. What I do know, is that we ended up following different paths. When she left, I couldn't do anything else than feel the void inside of me. I never knew about her for a while. An old friend said she was happy, with kids. A beautiful couple. But I never, ever, tried to reach out to her again. Before you ask, yes, I wanted, but I couldn't. Maybe one day she will remember me, maybe not, but as far as I'm concerned, I just rest my case. In the end, you can say I didn't deserve her, which I think too. But I still believe I will have someone, one day, even if I'm too old for that to happen."

His words stuck in my head. How could someone like him, end up alone? I think, maybe, he choose to live that way, so no one could hurt him. I never knew the scars he had until I have read about them in his pappers, that he asked me to keep with me. I tried to find that woman to no avail. Maybe she's out there looking for him. No one knows. What I do know, is that this man was much more than he would ever show.

Music Of The Day #2

"Der Doppelgänger" -  Schubert (Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau)

Still ist die Nacht, es ruhen die Gassen, (The night is quiet, the streets are calm,)
In diesem Hause wohnte mein Schatz; (In this house my beloved once lived:)
Sie hat schon längst die Stadt verlassen, (She has long since left the town,)
Doch steht noch das Haus auf demselben Platz. (But the house still stands, here in the same place.)

Da steht auch ein Mensch und starrt in die Höhe,  (A man stands there also and looks to the sky,)
Und ringt die Hände, vor Schmerzensgewalt; (And wrings his hands, overwhelmed by pain:)
Mir graust es, wenn ich sein Antlitz sehe - (Upon seeing his face, I am terrified--)
Der Mond zeigt mir meine eigne Gestalt. (The moon shows me my own form!)

Du Doppelgänger! du bleicher Geselle! (O you Doppelgänger! you pale comrade!)
Was äffst du nach mein Liebesleid, (Why do you ape the pain of my love)
Das mich gequält auf dieser Stelle, (Which tormented me upon this spot)
So manche Nacht, in alter Zeit? (So many a night, so long ago?)

Lost Statements #2

There is no reason to look out for something good. The world is sick and I am getting worst every single day. How far can I go? I don't know. I have an healthy life, except for the smoke which I like, but that's not enough. I'm losing weight, my appetite, my sleep, my will to do what I want and what I like...my will to live. I've been hanging onto something I can't fully describe, but I say a lot that is to cause no harm to the ones I love and care. I don't want to bring pain to them. Just that.

Every second, even this one where I'm writing this, I imagine, in my head, so many ways to die. Some with blood, some bloodless. Now I'm imagine this as bloodlines. Somehow, I wish I could write a letter with my own blood. I don't cut myself, but I want to. I want to tear myself from limb to limb. 'Cause I'm sick of this, of everything. I'm tired of fake my smile, pretend that everything is ok, just so the others don't make questions, don't care and don't feel my pain when they have to deal with their own.

I've been losing everything quite some time ago. First, I've lost my talent in school and I lost my mind because of someone who played with my emotions. Hello depression. After that, I've started to rebuild my world. I've been cheated, way before my world start to crumble, but that didn't bother me too much. Then, I've found myself stumbling upon myself trying to find a balance to fill the void. It was in that, let's call it travel, that I've found someone who I would lose after a while, like everything else.

See, I've seen beauty and it's many forms, but I couldn't keep it with me. Obviously, I met good people along the way, but I have never ever found someone who embrace my darkest ways, my evil ways, my wicked mind, who choose to stay with me. But I'm still being able to see beauty. I see people with a lot of potential and what they can achieve if they don't waste themselves or give up. Sometimes, the wings are spread and ready to take them to new heights, but their mind is their weakness. Yet, they still shine brighter than shining stars, even if they hide it from everyone and from themselves.

Anyway, back to myself, I've been losing everything. My friends, my enthusiasm, my will to do something, my confidence, my self trust, my mind...but I'm gaining something. I'm gaining the desire to put an end to everything around me, including myself. Maybe that end is closer to me than I thought. After all, I'm now in a place where I can make those decision. I just hope that when my end comes, I'm there to salute the bravest soul that come to take me to eternity. My dreams and my hopes are death.

Lost statements #1

You can go from something great, to a completly void. It's like the break of dawn you know? It can be promising, but you'll never know what will be. Sometimes we talk about passion like it's the reason for our existence. I call it lies and illusion. See, things tend to be more like a dark twisted fantasy, but it's not. That fantasy is reality. People are losing their will to go on, to rebuild themselves and the society, but prefer to live in a fake state of mind where everything makes them happy. Are they? Are this thoughts even real? Or are they just a construction of a double reality?

I can't look to myself as an exemple of this, because I've always seem to tend to become a shadow thinker, living within my own reality, my illusion, my world. It's fake but resembles a lot to today's society. No wonder I keep myself battling inner demons. But this darkness I'm into is where I feel I'm home. On the other hand, I feel amused by it, because I can't share my real thoughts with anyone else. It would torn me appart, because they, the other walking "free thinkers" wouldn't get it.

This is different. My eyes are a lot different from theirs. Should I care? No! Every living soul is, somehow, different. Why do they keep living the same pathetic lifes? Just copying each others looks, each others tastes, just trying to be what others are. No way I could follow that path. That's why I try to make others find their path, away from the shadows. You have to be insane to keep following this road.

Don't follow me, follow your dreams. I can show you the path, but it's your call to make it, to build it. I love my scars, but I wish I never had them. Guess I made the wrong turns, but always keeping myself in the right track. I've lost myself and I do that a lot. But I can always find you and show you the way, your right way. Follow it. Live it. Build it.

Stay away from this shadows. Stay away from my home.

Music Of The Day #1

"A Million Little Pieces" - Placebo

There wasn't much I used to need
A smile would blow a summer breeze through my heart
Now my mistakes are haunting me,
Like Winter came and put a freeze on my heart

I've lost the power to understand
what it takes to be a man with my heart
I saw you wanted this to end,
You tried your best to be a friend to my heart

But I'm leaving this worry town
Please no grieving, my love, understand?

Whenever I was feeling wrong
I used to go and write a song from my heart
But now I feel I've lost my spark
No more glowing in the dark for my heart

So I'm leaving this worry town,
Please no grieving, my love, understand?

Understand? [x4]

Understand? (Can't you see I'm sick of fighting?)
Understand? (Can't you tell I've lost my way?)
Understand? (Look at me, there's no denying)
Understand? (I won't last another day)

So I'm leaving this worry town
Please no grieving, my love, understand?

That I'm leaving this worry town
Please no grieving, my love, understand?

All my dreaming torn in pieces,
All my dreaming torn in pieces,
All my dreaming torn in pieces,
All my dreaming torn in pieces now

Are You Sad?

I'm sad. Not in a way I feel like everything sucks, but just sad. Without a reason. I feel like him without a voice since everything I say falls into deaf ears, but that's another subject to discuss in the future probably. I try to avoid the sadness, but I can't. I can't runaway from something I have since I was little, even if I hide it behind  smile and a corpse full of energy. This is real, but could be just and act. An act of virtue in all of it's grace. It may sound silly or funny, but that's what it is. You tend to look over your shoulder, waiting for something to come back from your past that will make you say "after all, it wasnt so bad as it seemed to be. It was just a lesson...", but hat never happens. What happens is everything is a lesson, but that lesson can turn your life in a sad dream. Why not a nightmare? Because nightmare make you go wide awake with the fear to go back to sleep. Dreams make you lazy enough to want to go back to sleep. Like, sleepwalking.

I'm sad. I know that sadness will never end for me. I fight back a lot, for me, everyone and everything...and I fight back against me, everyone and everything. It's not something I actually want, but let's call it fate. Allow me to say that I don't believe in fate. I believe we build our own destiny through our actions and from what we learn about our journey. A journey that will, eventually, come to an end. That's it. The end. That's the bottom of everything. I never thought about reaching the rock bottom, but if I had to guess, I've never left it. What I created can be discussed, but I think it's beautiful. I enjoy this place, even if the colours seem so...sad and dark. That's my nature, what else can I do? I can't pretend to be what I'm not when I already hurt myself faking things that I shouldn't just to make people happy and I don't mind. I really don't. I care alot about them and I don't want them to drown with me. I know some of them can see me drowning, but I don't want to bring them with me. I refuse that. I just want to make them happy and proud for their achievements. Again, I'm just a lunatic.

I'm sad. Not the kind of sad that will woke up tomorrow and think that everything is going to be alright. No. I'm that kind of sad that whenever I close my eyes, I can see all their smiles and hear all of their chantings and laughs. But that's when I start to hallucinate...or dreaming. When I close my eyes, I feel the comfort of everything while a voice whisper "this will be all over soon so your tomorrow don't have to exist anymore".

Inner Wounds

I wonder how many times I've tried to write this. The thoughts that have been hauting my mind and dreams at night are gaining an unparalleled strenght. They don't bother me still, just open the highway to my own abyss. It's getting real dark in here, you see? I almost go blind with all of this, but either way, I'll try to keep myself standing higher above the flames. Do I look like I care about the flames? Do I? Not at all. I learn to love the flames, the scars, the darkness, the emptiness. But who the hell cares about that? Why would you care about that? Life is a matter of choices and, for the best of the worst, I'm the choice everyone wants to avoid.

Let me rise something in your mind first. The will to carry on with your life, either pathetic or not, but you'll make the best out of it. I no longer have the will to keep myself up or fight any torment. I'm working like a machine and my mind is playing tricks on me. Can't you see the patterns? It' all over the place, like the blood I imagine spilled all over my surrounding walls, floor. Typing this or any other text feels like I'm pressing my fingers into razor blades. I feel my finger being slit and I see all of it like I'm bleeding, even if I'm not. It's kind of an hallucination.Wasn't you seeking for a more twisted mind? Well, I'm here, and I'm sure that one day I'll have something around here that will make you cry and think "Let me try to help you out!", but there's warning signs all over the place.

Yes, I can be fixed...but I'm not broken. Just because I have a hole digged with my own bare hands, that doesn't mean I'm broken. I'm just shattering myself to pieces. Should I blame myself? Maybe, but this isn't a solo work. Everyone made their part, I was just not one step ahead to see it coming. My internal wounds were open violently like I was nothing and the world started to close down on me. Some say we all have an angel watching us over...but my angel lied to me. I was suppose to be fine, but I'm not. I'm just ok. You know what means to be temporary to the people when you give everything you have to make them smile? Left behind just because "why not"? Let me tell you a secret, that isn't much of a secret, actually...everything about my past just made me grow cold and though I just have myself to reshape, rebuild and imrpove, I'm growing colder. This could be my inner teenager speaking, but it isn't. My inner self is crying. This was not what I dreamt I would be.