Songs of the Day

-In no particular order.

1. Interpol - A Time To Be So Small
2. Tori Amos - Twinkle
3. Wheat - The beginner
4. Locust - Your Selfish Ways
5. Stars - Elevator Love Letter
6. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Diamond Sea (Sonic Youth Cover)
7. The Cure - The Same Deep Water As You
8. Kate Bush - Army Dreamers
9. French Kicks - The Trial of the Century
10. Duran Duran - The Seventh Stranger

Friendships Are Over Rated

Now I’m the first to admit that I am a horrible writer and am not cleaver at all when it comes to creative writing or ideas. So please bear with me!How are you supposed to feel with the death of a friend?

Relax, she didn’t die.

This was not just any friend, this was the friend of all friends. The one you could call at 2 in the morning and pour your heart out to. She of course would be a little upset but would still listen to you. The friend you swore could be your sister except ummm… well you have different parents, look absolutely nothing alike, but although she is of different racial background you could have sworn you might be sisters, well maybe in another life.

Well I suppose that just goes to show how people are so different. How while looking at an empty canvas one could see an infinite number of possibilities while the other only saw that, an empty canvas.

Now I can’t say I have been the best of friends either. We met about 10 years ago. September of 1996 to be a bit more precise. Geez I’m getting old, but that’s outside the subject. We didn’t become friends right away, in fact, it took us about 2 years. Even then we were just acquaintances.

Okay the point is we became really close, or so I thought. And over a misunderstanding, at least that’s what I think since I didn’t do anything, she ummm… well she is not talking to me. And that breaks my heart.

Once, my boyfriend broke up with me and she was consoling me. I told her that I was in pain but if one day I lost her I didn’t know how I would survive. Now physically I’m fine. But there is this emptiness I feel without her. Emptiness and a huge let down. If for something so tiny our friendship is over does that not mean that it was probably not worth it? Does that mean that probably she was worth to me a million times more than I was worth to her?

Again I must admit I don’t have many friends, I don’t socialize much. But then again I don’t mind. I am or was satisfied with the quantity of friends I had, or with the quantity of people I considered friends. Acquaintances, there’s many, but friends, well I have enough fingers in one hand to count the ones I actually consider friends.

A friendship is a relationship right? I mean you must give in order to take, or am I wrong? I love her and without her I feel as if all this time I was walking a path that leads nowhere. I feel I have been fooled.

Maybe friendships are overrated.

From: Fernando Silva

From: Fernando Silva
Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 11:53 Am
To: Grace Alvarez
Subject: As Promised...

Hi Grace!

I finally got a chance to breath and quickly remembered to email you the words to the Haiku composed in honor of your nacimiento.
I thought it would be a better idea to write them down on quality stationary, but time was against me. Perhaps, and this isn't a promise, I will have some time in the near future to do so, but only time will tell. I whope you enjoy the haiku again and wish you a wonderful week. Please say hi to Dinah and Alba for me when you see them. Ciao!
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