Dear Someone I Want To Give A Second Chance To,
Dear S,
I s'pose it's just you. Anyone else who's hurt me I either got over or they apologised/ we fixed it, or I don't want to give them the second chance.
You were a bastard last year, and you probably didn't even know it haha. You realllllly upset me for a while... but it was because I read into things that weren't there, not because you tried to hurt me. But I mean, you do things I don't like and I s'pose I could say I'm giving you a second chance for those things. I'm not sure though if I'm giving you this chance to change, or for me to change my outlook and accept them. I want to give you a second chance for being a player, but that's not really my chance to give seeing as nothing really ever happened between us... I don't get to complain... I don't get to pretend you cared :P
I really want to give me a second chance, a second chance at going for you... one where I actually have the guts to go for you... instead of hoping you'll look up and notice me out of your own free will because that just simply isn't working for me at the moment. I get days when I think... maybe you're interested... and then days when I'm like LOOOL who am I kidding. Say yes or no... pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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Sentimental Moments #21
Dear Someone I Judged By Their First Impression,
Dear P,
oh my, first day of year 8, walking, of course, into Mr Bell's English class. I was so short and you were so tall. "HI I"M MADDY." I swear it must have been the bravest thing I'd ever done so far and then you were like so giggly and loud :P you kept looking at me all day that first lesson after I said that and walked off... Perhaps I should have like sat with you or talked with you a little more after introducing myself :P Anyway, you were the crazy smiling girlthat day and I kind of haven't thought of you any differently since. So thank-you for not judging me on that interesting day and I'm so glad you haven't changed from being so cheery xxx
Dear P,
oh my, first day of year 8, walking, of course, into Mr Bell's English class. I was so short and you were so tall. "HI I"M MADDY." I swear it must have been the bravest thing I'd ever done so far and then you were like so giggly and loud :P you kept looking at me all day that first lesson after I said that and walked off... Perhaps I should have like sat with you or talked with you a little more after introducing myself :P Anyway, you were the crazy smiling girlthat day and I kind of haven't thought of you any differently since. So thank-you for not judging me on that interesting day and I'm so glad you haven't changed from being so cheery xxx
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Sentimental Moments #20
Dear Someone Who Broke My Heart The Hardest,
A broken heart... do I really know what it feels like? Will I ever know if I really know what it feels like? I think you broke my heart... but maybe I was just sad... just a little down for a while. Does being hurt by someone you loved count as having your heart broken?
Now... you broke my heart, I'm almost sure of it... but it wasn't your fault and I don't like pointing out that you broke my heart. :( I've said it enough times that I broke the day you died... but I spose for the sake of this letter Ihad to point it out again. I think my heart is mending though :) It won't take me so long next time.
Back to you... did I ever really love you enough for you to break anything inside of me? I'm sure I was pleased with you, taken by you and smitten even... I said I love you, but did I mean it. Can you break my heart if I didn't love you?
Maybe I break my own heart by bothering about all of these things... Would I have cared at all about you leaving me if I never thought about it again?
Well I'm still alive aren't I so it isn't broken literally which is a good thing. Perhaps this is a waste of time... :P
A broken heart... do I really know what it feels like? Will I ever know if I really know what it feels like? I think you broke my heart... but maybe I was just sad... just a little down for a while. Does being hurt by someone you loved count as having your heart broken?
Now... you broke my heart, I'm almost sure of it... but it wasn't your fault and I don't like pointing out that you broke my heart. :( I've said it enough times that I broke the day you died... but I spose for the sake of this letter Ihad to point it out again. I think my heart is mending though :) It won't take me so long next time.
Back to you... did I ever really love you enough for you to break anything inside of me? I'm sure I was pleased with you, taken by you and smitten even... I said I love you, but did I mean it. Can you break my heart if I didn't love you?
Maybe I break my own heart by bothering about all of these things... Would I have cared at all about you leaving me if I never thought about it again?
Well I'm still alive aren't I so it isn't broken literally which is a good thing. Perhaps this is a waste of time... :P
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Sentimental Moments #19
Dear Someone Who Pesters My Mind,
Howdy, hows it going? yeah you know I talk to you a lot... you just don't know... maybe your ear burns... isn't that what happens? when someone talks about you or thinks about you one of your ears burns or goes red or something? anyway... maybe it doesn't :P You spend a shitload of time in my mind and I have to say... if you're not going to behave the same way in real life I'd like you to gtfo of my thoughts.
Thinking about you is not a bad thing... They're nice thoughts, make me feel warm and cozy inside haha but... leaves me a little cold when I stop thinking. Im thinking you should like... just take a little look around the next time you're in my thoughts and mimick what you're like in there :) that would be nice I think.
I'd also like to say if you're a horrible person then my mind has given you way too much credit and from the stories I hear you're not very nice... so maybe you should try to deserve how nice my thoughts are to you. Don't turn out to be a bastard... just change your mind and consider what I am
Howdy, hows it going? yeah you know I talk to you a lot... you just don't know... maybe your ear burns... isn't that what happens? when someone talks about you or thinks about you one of your ears burns or goes red or something? anyway... maybe it doesn't :P You spend a shitload of time in my mind and I have to say... if you're not going to behave the same way in real life I'd like you to gtfo of my thoughts.
Thinking about you is not a bad thing... They're nice thoughts, make me feel warm and cozy inside haha but... leaves me a little cold when I stop thinking. Im thinking you should like... just take a little look around the next time you're in my thoughts and mimick what you're like in there :) that would be nice I think.
I'd also like to say if you're a horrible person then my mind has given you way too much credit and from the stories I hear you're not very nice... so maybe you should try to deserve how nice my thoughts are to you. Don't turn out to be a bastard... just change your mind and consider what I am
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Sentimental Moments #18
Dear The Person I Wish I Could Be,
I know you're out there somewhere, and I'm hoping you're out there in my future :) You're confident... you fight for the things you want that I can't quite get to at the moment. I'm content with what I am but I know I can be better.I want the power to look people in the eyes! man looking myself in the eye is awkward enough haha Perhaps someone who isn't so lazy... and someone who has mad cooking skills. I'm sure there is someone I'd rather be but whenI get down to it I'm actually really happy being me, just the little things I could work on... I don't want to be someone else
I know you're out there somewhere, and I'm hoping you're out there in my future :) You're confident... you fight for the things you want that I can't quite get to at the moment. I'm content with what I am but I know I can be better.I want the power to look people in the eyes! man looking myself in the eye is awkward enough haha Perhaps someone who isn't so lazy... and someone who has mad cooking skills. I'm sure there is someone I'd rather be but whenI get down to it I'm actually really happy being me, just the little things I could work on... I don't want to be someone else
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Sentimental Moments #17
Dear Someone From My Child Hood,
Dear Dean,
I'm fairly sure that was your name, it's either that or Dale or something... You had awesome fish, and while you weren't my favourite neighbour you were pretty awesome. I have to tell you though, I broke my first bone trying to feed your fish! it's still crooked today, over 8 years later. Your backyard was fricken amazing! I lost many frisbees and things in that junglee of yours. You were such a butch manly little 8 year old even though you used to cry when your mum tried to leave you at school in year 1 :P
Dear Dean,
I'm fairly sure that was your name, it's either that or Dale or something... You had awesome fish, and while you weren't my favourite neighbour you were pretty awesome. I have to tell you though, I broke my first bone trying to feed your fish! it's still crooked today, over 8 years later. Your backyard was fricken amazing! I lost many frisbees and things in that junglee of yours. You were such a butch manly little 8 year old even though you used to cry when your mum tried to leave you at school in year 1 :P
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Sentimental Moments #16
Dear Someone Who Lives In Another State/Country.
Dear so many people I know,
Cassidy; god I miss you like hell... I can't believe it's been so long since I was there! I wish I could come back and have our lovely long chats on your trampoline at night in summer, it's an excellent way to pass time and to get over things that upset you. Trying to double bounce each other is also quite excellent. It's so annoying having been moved so far away, I mean I know we didn't get to see you that often when westill lived in Melbourne but at least we were only a days drive away... now it feels like forever and a day. I can't wait to see you this Christmas, I'm dying to be back in that life with you all :D
Ryan and Pat; oh look you guys got to turn up in another letter, how fabulous. You guys were the most awesome street mates to have :D The people here fail miserably in comparison. Every strange game we used to play was so much fun and the walkie talkies were pretty amazing. I'm so glad we're still good friends now, probably better then we were before. It's pretty awesome that I can come stay with you when I visit and hang out with you guys :D Wish we lived in the same state guys
My family; you're all so far away and I miss you like crazy, but having this distance makes each visit feel like a wonderful gift and I treasure it so much more because I know how seldom I get to see you. I love you all, no matter how strange you are, and I just want to say that I'm so happy you are my family and I have that life to sink into every so often, it's like a perfect holiday from everyday life.
To everyone I've had to move away from, or met on holidays etc I'd like to say a hello to you and how do you do and end it with a toodledoo.
Dear so many people I know,
Cassidy; god I miss you like hell... I can't believe it's been so long since I was there! I wish I could come back and have our lovely long chats on your trampoline at night in summer, it's an excellent way to pass time and to get over things that upset you. Trying to double bounce each other is also quite excellent. It's so annoying having been moved so far away, I mean I know we didn't get to see you that often when westill lived in Melbourne but at least we were only a days drive away... now it feels like forever and a day. I can't wait to see you this Christmas, I'm dying to be back in that life with you all :D
Ryan and Pat; oh look you guys got to turn up in another letter, how fabulous. You guys were the most awesome street mates to have :D The people here fail miserably in comparison. Every strange game we used to play was so much fun and the walkie talkies were pretty amazing. I'm so glad we're still good friends now, probably better then we were before. It's pretty awesome that I can come stay with you when I visit and hang out with you guys :D Wish we lived in the same state guys
My family; you're all so far away and I miss you like crazy, but having this distance makes each visit feel like a wonderful gift and I treasure it so much more because I know how seldom I get to see you. I love you all, no matter how strange you are, and I just want to say that I'm so happy you are my family and I have that life to sink into every so often, it's like a perfect holiday from everyday life.
To everyone I've had to move away from, or met on holidays etc I'd like to say a hello to you and how do you do and end it with a toodledoo.
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I am the walrus
I wanna hold you hand... Is there anybody going to listen to my story, all about the boy who came to stay. He's the kind of boy you want so much it makes you sorry, still you don't regret a single day.
If I fell in love with you, would you promise to be true. Would you help me understand, cause I've been in love before, and I've found that love is more then just holding hands. If I give my heart to you, I must be sure from the very start that you would love me more then her...
It won't be long, till I belong to you.
If I fell in love with you, would you promise to be true. Would you help me understand, cause I've been in love before, and I've found that love is more then just holding hands. If I give my heart to you, I must be sure from the very start that you would love me more then her...
It won't be long, till I belong to you.
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sentimental moments #15
Dear Person I miss The Most,
Who do I miss the most. I miss you Ash, but my world has adjusted to not having you around now... now it's like you're still here but only for me.
Person who I can never talk to properly, I miss you from last year... be like that with me again... I know I promised I wouldn't wish about you anymore and that I'd be over you and all that shit. But you're making it difficult so screw you.
I miss you Ryan and Pat, I actually ache to have my old life back with you two... visiting you was the best thing leaving was the worst... I miss you guys like crazy you are so awesome.
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sentimental moments #14
Dear Someone I’ve Drifted Away From,
Dear Caitlin,
We were so awesome back in Anscome Loop… and you had the coolest cubby house. The walk to West Leeming Primary school was sooooo far haha not. Then you moved to Apple Cross I swear that brokemy heart Caitlin! but it’s ok cause then we moved to Melbourne. I totez lost my best friend :( THEN YOU MOVED TO MELBOURNE. god that was so weird and so excellent. I wonder if you remember that golf course right on the otherside of your fence… I remember going out and lying on it for ages and the sprinklers coming on. Oh the excellent times. You moved back to Perth, damn girl whyyy! But then a year later I moved back too and would you believe it we’re leaving two streets away from each other. you’re going to China with my brother and we saw Gaga together. We have drifted apart… but i think we’re drifting together again,
You’re awesome :D
Dear Caitlin,
We were so awesome back in Anscome Loop… and you had the coolest cubby house. The walk to West Leeming Primary school was sooooo far haha not. Then you moved to Apple Cross I swear that brokemy heart Caitlin! but it’s ok cause then we moved to Melbourne. I totez lost my best friend :( THEN YOU MOVED TO MELBOURNE. god that was so weird and so excellent. I wonder if you remember that golf course right on the otherside of your fence… I remember going out and lying on it for ages and the sprinklers coming on. Oh the excellent times. You moved back to Perth, damn girl whyyy! But then a year later I moved back too and would you believe it we’re leaving two streets away from each other. you’re going to China with my brother and we saw Gaga together. We have drifted apart… but i think we’re drifting together again,
You’re awesome :D
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Sentimental Moments #13
Dear Someone I Wish Could Forgive Me.
Dear Mum,
I'm sorry I got upset when you didn't come to see me dance. I should know straight away and not be so selfish. I hope you're ok and don't feel too bad... I know it's tough for you and I love you. I'm sorry I questioned you about not coming... I'm sorry I didn't just trust it was seriousish. I'm sorry mum for taking you for granted. I need you still, I'm not grown up enough to lose you. Forgive me for being a troublesome child and for beingspoilt and always wanting more. I'm sorry for saying sorry if that upsets you Be happy and enjoy your life please
I love you
Dear Mum,
I'm sorry I got upset when you didn't come to see me dance. I should know straight away and not be so selfish. I hope you're ok and don't feel too bad... I know it's tough for you and I love you. I'm sorry I questioned you about not coming... I'm sorry I didn't just trust it was seriousish. I'm sorry mum for taking you for granted. I need you still, I'm not grown up enough to lose you. Forgive me for being a troublesome child and for beingspoilt and always wanting more. I'm sorry for saying sorry if that upsets you Be happy and enjoy your life please
I love you
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Sentimental Moments #12
Dear Person who's hurt me most.
I've been very lucky in my life, no ones really struck out at me incredibly badly. So I'm not sure who to write to here...
I'll send a line to that driver... I don't know if he's alive or not, I don't know if it was even a he... but he took someone from me because he couldn't use a car properly. He created an accident that didn't need to happen, killing someone who didn't need to die.
I'll send a line to that doctor... that doctor that couldn't save his life... I have to hope that he tried, I have to believe that he did everything he could... but even so losing him was the greatest pain I've felt and I still don't know who to blame.
I could send a line to my ex. he was a right prick who went out of his way to hurt people... but the pain he caused me was nothing compared to actually hurting so I don't know if it would be worth it.
I could send a line to that violent person I know... Who likes to hit me to make himself feel better... To make himself feel bigger... He's probably hurt me the most physically... mentally I just don't care, so I could have been a lot worse off if it upset me more.
I could write a letter to Cupid. And say come down from your fucking fluffy cloud and see that I can love and I really would likeeeeee someone to love me. Maybe he should just take some aiming lessons to shoot the right person for me, or maybe he should just stop shooting me so I don't fall anymore.
After all of this I should probably just write to myself because I've been my worst critic, my worst enemy etc always... I didn't know how to love myself and so I was ruining myself... I probably made a lot of things worse then they had to be. I'm glad I'm learning how to change. and I'm glad this letter has no destination.
I've been very lucky in my life, no ones really struck out at me incredibly badly. So I'm not sure who to write to here...
I'll send a line to that driver... I don't know if he's alive or not, I don't know if it was even a he... but he took someone from me because he couldn't use a car properly. He created an accident that didn't need to happen, killing someone who didn't need to die.
I'll send a line to that doctor... that doctor that couldn't save his life... I have to hope that he tried, I have to believe that he did everything he could... but even so losing him was the greatest pain I've felt and I still don't know who to blame.
I could send a line to my ex. he was a right prick who went out of his way to hurt people... but the pain he caused me was nothing compared to actually hurting so I don't know if it would be worth it.
I could send a line to that violent person I know... Who likes to hit me to make himself feel better... To make himself feel bigger... He's probably hurt me the most physically... mentally I just don't care, so I could have been a lot worse off if it upset me more.
I could write a letter to Cupid. And say come down from your fucking fluffy cloud and see that I can love and I really would likeeeeee someone to love me. Maybe he should just take some aiming lessons to shoot the right person for me, or maybe he should just stop shooting me so I don't fall anymore.
After all of this I should probably just write to myself because I've been my worst critic, my worst enemy etc always... I didn't know how to love myself and so I was ruining myself... I probably made a lot of things worse then they had to be. I'm glad I'm learning how to change. and I'm glad this letter has no destination.
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Sentimental Moments #11
Dear A Deceased Person I Wish I Could Talk To,
Dear Ash,
You had to be tonight didn't you, when I wanted an easy one so I could just go to sleep (L) But then again we did have our most fun at nights didn't we. Sleeping out in the park... when you brought me pillows and blankets, making me feel like you were my hero :P I don't... know what to say to you now... I mean, I want to talk to you more then I want anything else in this world, I want to see you smiling again... I want to feel your arms around meand fluff your hair and just... know that you're around. But I don't know what I'd say. I bet you'd say my rooms gone to hell... I'd bet you'd grin and say "hey Shucks" like nothing had happend. Like I hadn't watched you fade away. You'd laugh at where I am now... I know what you'd say about who I like :P You'd laugh at the fact that I was single and say "what happened to that girl who pushed me out of the tree with the force of her surprise kiss attack." I'd say she died with you. But she's coming back, she just had to go away for a little while until she learnt how to cope without you to ward of the evils. It was a shock to my system like getting cold water instead of hot... I had to adjust, and I feel guilty that it's taken me so long, when you got the worst of it all. I remember everything as if I watched a movie about us... or read it in a book, it's one of my favourite stories that I want to keep living forever...
I don't know what you were to me... I mean we got past romantic stuff... and yet I still loved you, I always loved you... You were like my brother, but not in a family-y way... you were like my fairy god mother, in a manly way... I mean you were gorgeous... I can't deny that and yet pretty soon I didn't look at you and see 'hot stuff' I just saw Ash... you were my Ash... for awhile you were my everything. I wouldn't say these things to you if I could talk to you though.I'd simply say "hi... it's been awhile... what took you so long" I'd just wait until natural conversation took over, just wait until there was something worth saying because every moment counts, but with you what wasn't said was alwaysso much more important than what was said. I might whisper "I love you" just to make sure you know, just in case you left again... It still hurts... writing this hurts, but in a way that makes me smile, and cry. excuse me while i get a tissue. DO YOU SEE WHAT YOU DO TO ME :p
what would I give for one more hug. One more word.
Thank you for knowing me :)
Dear Ash,
You had to be tonight didn't you, when I wanted an easy one so I could just go to sleep (L) But then again we did have our most fun at nights didn't we. Sleeping out in the park... when you brought me pillows and blankets, making me feel like you were my hero :P I don't... know what to say to you now... I mean, I want to talk to you more then I want anything else in this world, I want to see you smiling again... I want to feel your arms around meand fluff your hair and just... know that you're around. But I don't know what I'd say. I bet you'd say my rooms gone to hell... I'd bet you'd grin and say "hey Shucks" like nothing had happend. Like I hadn't watched you fade away. You'd laugh at where I am now... I know what you'd say about who I like :P You'd laugh at the fact that I was single and say "what happened to that girl who pushed me out of the tree with the force of her surprise kiss attack." I'd say she died with you. But she's coming back, she just had to go away for a little while until she learnt how to cope without you to ward of the evils. It was a shock to my system like getting cold water instead of hot... I had to adjust, and I feel guilty that it's taken me so long, when you got the worst of it all. I remember everything as if I watched a movie about us... or read it in a book, it's one of my favourite stories that I want to keep living forever...
I don't know what you were to me... I mean we got past romantic stuff... and yet I still loved you, I always loved you... You were like my brother, but not in a family-y way... you were like my fairy god mother, in a manly way... I mean you were gorgeous... I can't deny that and yet pretty soon I didn't look at you and see 'hot stuff' I just saw Ash... you were my Ash... for awhile you were my everything. I wouldn't say these things to you if I could talk to you though.I'd simply say "hi... it's been awhile... what took you so long" I'd just wait until natural conversation took over, just wait until there was something worth saying because every moment counts, but with you what wasn't said was alwaysso much more important than what was said. I might whisper "I love you" just to make sure you know, just in case you left again... It still hurts... writing this hurts, but in a way that makes me smile, and cry. excuse me while i get a tissue. DO YOU SEE WHAT YOU DO TO ME :p
what would I give for one more hug. One more word.
Thank you for knowing me :)
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Sentimental Moments #10
Dear Someone I Don't Talk To As Much As I'd Like To,
Dear Craig,
You are a pretty awesome person no matter what you say! And it's always exciting to talk to you :) I feel so sad when you are sad and things don't go well for you but you're generally such a happy bouncy personand I just wanna talk to you more cause it's fun :D You say the randomest things and steal people shoes and I'm always laughing when I'm around you. Even though we can sit next to eacch other in the library and barely speak it's ok cause we just don't know each other very well yet :) I think you looked awesome as the mask and feeding you jelly was the highlight of that night :D
Don't forget you're awesome :D
keep smilinglet's talk more
xxx
Dear Craig,
You are a pretty awesome person no matter what you say! And it's always exciting to talk to you :) I feel so sad when you are sad and things don't go well for you but you're generally such a happy bouncy personand I just wanna talk to you more cause it's fun :D You say the randomest things and steal people shoes and I'm always laughing when I'm around you. Even though we can sit next to eacch other in the library and barely speak it's ok cause we just don't know each other very well yet :) I think you looked awesome as the mask and feeding you jelly was the highlight of that night :D
Don't forget you're awesome :D
keep smilinglet's talk more
xxx
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Sentimental Moments #9
Dear Someone I Wish I Could Meet,
I wish I could meet my true love... but I think I'm a bit young so that can wait. I'd love to meet Ewan Mcgreggor but I bet he turns out to be nothing like the man I wish he was so I don't to ruin my ideaof him. Hmm I spose I could just meet more people in general learn more about how different people work... and see which people I'd be friends with etc. I'd like to meet someone from every country and I'd like them to teach meabout their lives and their cultures. I'd like to meet people from different classes and ranks. A politician... a broke man, a high class woman everyone. I want to meet a dancer, an accountant a priest I want to meet everyone....
:D hi everyone
I wish I could meet my true love... but I think I'm a bit young so that can wait. I'd love to meet Ewan Mcgreggor but I bet he turns out to be nothing like the man I wish he was so I don't to ruin my ideaof him. Hmm I spose I could just meet more people in general learn more about how different people work... and see which people I'd be friends with etc. I'd like to meet someone from every country and I'd like them to teach meabout their lives and their cultures. I'd like to meet people from different classes and ranks. A politician... a broke man, a high class woman everyone. I want to meet a dancer, an accountant a priest I want to meet everyone....
:D hi everyone
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Sentimental moments #8
Dear Favourite Internet Friend,
Hey little Spanish kid, you're my only completely internet friend so I shall write this letter to you :D I met you on Omegle... it's depressing but true and then we became internet buddies and I'm pretty grateful for that actually :D you also use a lot of smiley faces when we talk which makes me feel happy and suggests to me you're a happy person
You have fallen in love with a girl whos favourite musical is Moulin Rouge so you therefore have excellent taste in girls :P and I'm glad for your sake for that ;P It was really random how our friendship started but I feel glad that you opened up to me even though I'm on the other side of the world. You asked me for advice on Omegle about how to get this girl... I could have been anyone, a perverted old man or whatever but I'm so glad it was me you asked. I'm not sure if I've given you good advice I mean, I don't have very much experiance and no one ever likes me back so... possibly not but from what you've told me it's been working slowly. I love to listen to you speak because you speak of love as if it is the most wonderful thing in the world, you have so much hope and it's just so sweet. You talk about her in the most amazing way and it gives me hope for man kind and I just swell up with happiness to know that you exist and to know you're involved in my life somehow. You worry so much about every single one of your actions and I just want to be able to give you a big hug and tell you that the world will be ok,that your life will be ok no matter what happens... That things will change for the better and worse but you'll be ok. You told me that you didn't want anything to happen between you and this girl because if it ended badly you would lose her as a friend, you also told me you want a serious relationship with her and you feel you are too young to start one now so you want to wait. I was gobsmacked that these ideas would cross your mind and I love that you care so much to think them through. I feel so bad for you that you want to wait so that you can eventually get her seriously because for now it's obviously hurting you... I never knew straight guys who cared about love actually existed :)
I hope you have a hot older brother
xxx your internet friend
Hey little Spanish kid, you're my only completely internet friend so I shall write this letter to you :D I met you on Omegle... it's depressing but true and then we became internet buddies and I'm pretty grateful for that actually :D you also use a lot of smiley faces when we talk which makes me feel happy and suggests to me you're a happy person
You have fallen in love with a girl whos favourite musical is Moulin Rouge so you therefore have excellent taste in girls :P and I'm glad for your sake for that ;P It was really random how our friendship started but I feel glad that you opened up to me even though I'm on the other side of the world. You asked me for advice on Omegle about how to get this girl... I could have been anyone, a perverted old man or whatever but I'm so glad it was me you asked. I'm not sure if I've given you good advice I mean, I don't have very much experiance and no one ever likes me back so... possibly not but from what you've told me it's been working slowly. I love to listen to you speak because you speak of love as if it is the most wonderful thing in the world, you have so much hope and it's just so sweet. You talk about her in the most amazing way and it gives me hope for man kind and I just swell up with happiness to know that you exist and to know you're involved in my life somehow. You worry so much about every single one of your actions and I just want to be able to give you a big hug and tell you that the world will be ok,that your life will be ok no matter what happens... That things will change for the better and worse but you'll be ok. You told me that you didn't want anything to happen between you and this girl because if it ended badly you would lose her as a friend, you also told me you want a serious relationship with her and you feel you are too young to start one now so you want to wait. I was gobsmacked that these ideas would cross your mind and I love that you care so much to think them through. I feel so bad for you that you want to wait so that you can eventually get her seriously because for now it's obviously hurting you... I never knew straight guys who cared about love actually existed :)
I hope you have a hot older brother
xxx your internet friend
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madsie
Sentimental moments #7
Dear Ex-boyfriend,
I could yell at you here, I probably should yell at you here... you deserve a lot worse but I don't see the point. The only reason I'd yell at you is to make you realise what you did, to make you hurt like I did, not because that's what I want to say to you, or because that's how I'm feeling now. I look back over the time we spent together and I think wtf was I thinking, but I also smile because I had a good time. I don't know why I did but I did. I have to say I'm glad my heart has moved on and I can look at you and not pine over you... that was pretty pathetic. Liking someone else was so refreshing for me... you were like a bad mood I just couldn't shake, perhaps I could point out here how sick you made me, physically. I would spend nights at home sleeping outside the bathroom spending more time in there being sick then outside sleeping during the days while you were being a complete asshole. When you made me do things to please you that I didn't want to do I felt cheap and sick and horrible but I so desperately didn't want you to dump me, even then I knew you were a perverted prick and somehow I still wanted you around. I'm glad to say I'm over that stage... that was pretty pathetic..
But this wasn't meant to be a hate letter, I don't want to reminisce over old times either though. I really don't know what I want to say to you. I want you to get out of my life. As much as I want to remember this someoneI want to make sure I forget you. I want someone to have to remind me what you were like, I don't want to know you and I don't want to be around the hurt that you cause. Your friends put up with so much and I used to hear most of it but in the end I gave up. You are like an endless source of pain and you inflict it on anyone that tries to get close to you... and I still can't work out exactly why. You come across as so happy and carefree always jumping around and smiling... anyone who only knew that side of you would bash me for this letter and that was a nice side of you. I felt like a little kid finding out there is no santa clause the day I realised that side of you barely even belonged to you.
Have a nice life.
I could yell at you here, I probably should yell at you here... you deserve a lot worse but I don't see the point. The only reason I'd yell at you is to make you realise what you did, to make you hurt like I did, not because that's what I want to say to you, or because that's how I'm feeling now. I look back over the time we spent together and I think wtf was I thinking, but I also smile because I had a good time. I don't know why I did but I did. I have to say I'm glad my heart has moved on and I can look at you and not pine over you... that was pretty pathetic. Liking someone else was so refreshing for me... you were like a bad mood I just couldn't shake, perhaps I could point out here how sick you made me, physically. I would spend nights at home sleeping outside the bathroom spending more time in there being sick then outside sleeping during the days while you were being a complete asshole. When you made me do things to please you that I didn't want to do I felt cheap and sick and horrible but I so desperately didn't want you to dump me, even then I knew you were a perverted prick and somehow I still wanted you around. I'm glad to say I'm over that stage... that was pretty pathetic..
But this wasn't meant to be a hate letter, I don't want to reminisce over old times either though. I really don't know what I want to say to you. I want you to get out of my life. As much as I want to remember this someoneI want to make sure I forget you. I want someone to have to remind me what you were like, I don't want to know you and I don't want to be around the hurt that you cause. Your friends put up with so much and I used to hear most of it but in the end I gave up. You are like an endless source of pain and you inflict it on anyone that tries to get close to you... and I still can't work out exactly why. You come across as so happy and carefree always jumping around and smiling... anyone who only knew that side of you would bash me for this letter and that was a nice side of you. I felt like a little kid finding out there is no santa clause the day I realised that side of you barely even belonged to you.
Have a nice life.
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madsie
Sentimental #6
Dear Stranger,
I wonder what you're like, I wonder if you'd like me... I wonder if we'll ever meet. I wonder what your life is like... and I wonder what you'd think of my life and visa versa. I wonder if i could learn anything from you.. or if I could teach you anything from my experiances. "I've heard it said that people come in to our lives, for a reason... bringing something we must learn and we are led to those who help us most to grow... if we let them and we help them in return" maybe you're going to change my life some day... maybe i'm going to change yours... for the better or the worse who knows. maybe we'll never meet maybe you'll always be a stranger.
I wonder about you
I wonder what you're like, I wonder if you'd like me... I wonder if we'll ever meet. I wonder what your life is like... and I wonder what you'd think of my life and visa versa. I wonder if i could learn anything from you.. or if I could teach you anything from my experiances. "I've heard it said that people come in to our lives, for a reason... bringing something we must learn and we are led to those who help us most to grow... if we let them and we help them in return" maybe you're going to change my life some day... maybe i'm going to change yours... for the better or the worse who knows. maybe we'll never meet maybe you'll always be a stranger.
I wonder about you
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madsie
Don't forget
I'm scared I'll forget... I'm scared I'll close my eyes and never be able to remember your face. I'm scared your voice will fade to a whisper in the distance and I won't remember you anymore. One day someone may have to remind me of who you were, of the songs we used to sing... and when I remember I'll laugh at a distant memory of times gone by... I don't want to forget. I want to remember you, I need something to remember you by... Maybe you won't remember me, maybe I have to accept that... Maybe in years to come my name will become a stranger to you. I don't want to remember you as a "kid from school" I want you tobe something worth remembering.
Take my innocence so I won't forget
Take my innocence so I won't forget
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madsie
Sentimental Moments #5
Dear Dreams,
hmm... come true? Ahh I do not know what to say to my dreams... The dreams I have at night I want to beg them to be nice but I think it would be unwise to want them to come true. The dreams for myfuture, I want them to know that I want them with every fibre of my being and that I'm willing to work for them until I'm completely worn through.
Dreaming about a future is actually a lot of fun, and planning ways to achieve those dreams is what makes a day a day... so I spose I should point out how excellent dreams are at giving our lives a point.I often sit and think and go... why are we living? You know we're all going to die one day and who knows if there's anything after life so... why are we all trying so hard at life when it's just.. life. And then I remember my dreamsand these things I want to achieve even though I don't completely understand why and I realise that living out a pointless life hoping to achieve these things definately makes it worth it. It gives purpose and something to be done no matter where you live.
I want a lot of things, this is evident in the first sentence of this letter.... but I think when it comes to your dreams if you don't want them enough you simply don't deserve them, and just because they didn't come true definately doesn't mean you didn't deserve them but maybe just maybe you found something better along the way... I hope I can open my eyes and see it when the time comes
hmm... come true? Ahh I do not know what to say to my dreams... The dreams I have at night I want to beg them to be nice but I think it would be unwise to want them to come true. The dreams for myfuture, I want them to know that I want them with every fibre of my being and that I'm willing to work for them until I'm completely worn through.
Dreaming about a future is actually a lot of fun, and planning ways to achieve those dreams is what makes a day a day... so I spose I should point out how excellent dreams are at giving our lives a point.I often sit and think and go... why are we living? You know we're all going to die one day and who knows if there's anything after life so... why are we all trying so hard at life when it's just.. life. And then I remember my dreamsand these things I want to achieve even though I don't completely understand why and I realise that living out a pointless life hoping to achieve these things definately makes it worth it. It gives purpose and something to be done no matter where you live.
I want a lot of things, this is evident in the first sentence of this letter.... but I think when it comes to your dreams if you don't want them enough you simply don't deserve them, and just because they didn't come true definately doesn't mean you didn't deserve them but maybe just maybe you found something better along the way... I hope I can open my eyes and see it when the time comes
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madsie
This ends now
Every day something extraordinary occurs... Every day you miss it. Every second something wonderful takes place... Every second you blink.
If someone smiled at you, you'd be looking the other way. If someone thought of you, you'd be thinking of someone else.
Ever sit and think, what an adventure it is to be alive? No of course you don't you're too busy looking at what he has and wishing you had it too. Ever just marvell at the wonders around you? No of course not you're too busy complaining about you latest hardships.
You're alive, you have a family, you have friends... you have the ability to love, to laugh and to cry... you can make other people laugh or cry... every human being has so much power, why do you let yours go to waste?
I send a little thought, I make a little wish, I even pray a little prayer for you in the hope that one day soon you will be able to be honestly happy and appreciate what you have instead of noticing what you haven't got and deciding you cannot be happy without it.
If someone smiled at you, you'd be looking the other way. If someone thought of you, you'd be thinking of someone else.
Ever sit and think, what an adventure it is to be alive? No of course you don't you're too busy looking at what he has and wishing you had it too. Ever just marvell at the wonders around you? No of course not you're too busy complaining about you latest hardships.
You're alive, you have a family, you have friends... you have the ability to love, to laugh and to cry... you can make other people laugh or cry... every human being has so much power, why do you let yours go to waste?
I send a little thought, I make a little wish, I even pray a little prayer for you in the hope that one day soon you will be able to be honestly happy and appreciate what you have instead of noticing what you haven't got and deciding you cannot be happy without it.
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madsie
Sentimental Moments #4
Dear siblings,
I couldn't decide whether to write to my brother or my sister so... I did both, cause I can.
Dear Brother,
Yeah you know you're the biggest tool.... and biggest loser and biggest moron and all that. But you're so fricken funny. Making fun of dad is only fun because it's with you... kicking his butt on the playstationis just excellent and spending the weekends with you has made getting through each week worthwhile ;P I love when I randomly walk into your room and we sorta just, hang out for ages... if I lay on your bed or steal your chairor go through your desk... It's so much fun when you make me guess all the songs and we just make the worst jokes ever but they're still funny and awesome. I think you should straighten your hair though.. or at least wash it properly. When we make fun of steph it's just pure excellence, man together we have the best come backs and it's just like BAM BAM BAM and we just own... I'm glad that you're close ish in age to me so we can talk as friendsas well as brother and sister... :D
Dear Sister,
Ok, you're a brat :P But I love you. You look like me so I won't call you ugly :P I like our DnM's and how I can tell you everything about my life even though you're only 11... and I love your responses.When you randomly come up to me and say "Is he in love with you yet?" I just have to laugh, I love how simply you see the world. You seem to have this idea of how it should be and you believe that it's going to be that way... it just has to get there. "Is he in love with you yet?" you say it as if it's inevitable and that that's how it's going to be not how it should be... you give me hope with your random ways :P I'm worried about your futureand how you'll act and how people will hurt you and I hope you will always trust me with your stories like you do now so I can help you when things go wrong. I like dancing like a tool with you, even though you're an amazingdancer we both just go round the house doing the monkey or whatever and I'm just always laughing. Oh and btw you suck at mario brothers and you should stop killing me.
I couldn't decide whether to write to my brother or my sister so... I did both, cause I can.
Dear Brother,
Yeah you know you're the biggest tool.... and biggest loser and biggest moron and all that. But you're so fricken funny. Making fun of dad is only fun because it's with you... kicking his butt on the playstationis just excellent and spending the weekends with you has made getting through each week worthwhile ;P I love when I randomly walk into your room and we sorta just, hang out for ages... if I lay on your bed or steal your chairor go through your desk... It's so much fun when you make me guess all the songs and we just make the worst jokes ever but they're still funny and awesome. I think you should straighten your hair though.. or at least wash it properly. When we make fun of steph it's just pure excellence, man together we have the best come backs and it's just like BAM BAM BAM and we just own... I'm glad that you're close ish in age to me so we can talk as friendsas well as brother and sister... :D
Dear Sister,
Ok, you're a brat :P But I love you. You look like me so I won't call you ugly :P I like our DnM's and how I can tell you everything about my life even though you're only 11... and I love your responses.When you randomly come up to me and say "Is he in love with you yet?" I just have to laugh, I love how simply you see the world. You seem to have this idea of how it should be and you believe that it's going to be that way... it just has to get there. "Is he in love with you yet?" you say it as if it's inevitable and that that's how it's going to be not how it should be... you give me hope with your random ways :P I'm worried about your futureand how you'll act and how people will hurt you and I hope you will always trust me with your stories like you do now so I can help you when things go wrong. I like dancing like a tool with you, even though you're an amazingdancer we both just go round the house doing the monkey or whatever and I'm just always laughing. Oh and btw you suck at mario brothers and you should stop killing me.
Posted by
madsie
Just don't
Don't open your mouth, I don't want to hear you speak. Don't look at me, I don't want to catch your eye. Don't speak of me, I don't want to be part of your dirty speech. Don't think of me, I don't want to be there.
Don't you dare badmouth me, I fought so faithfully for your cause. Don't you dare turn against me, I stayed all the way. Don't you dare play the sympathy card, I'm not ruining your life. Don't you dare turn this on me, it's not my fault it's your head.
Never judge me, never look down on me, never think I NEED your help. Never pity me, never worship me... never try to change me.
I can be nobody else, and I like the way I am...
Don't you dare badmouth me, I fought so faithfully for your cause. Don't you dare turn against me, I stayed all the way. Don't you dare play the sympathy card, I'm not ruining your life. Don't you dare turn this on me, it's not my fault it's your head.
Never judge me, never look down on me, never think I NEED your help. Never pity me, never worship me... never try to change me.
I can be nobody else, and I like the way I am...
Posted by
madsie
Sentimental moments #3
Dear Parents,
Mum; I spose this is very fitting because right now all I want is a hug from you... Being a teenager is a hard thing and you are the perfect person to help me through. I have no idea how you understandeverything so quickly or how you can want to help me with all of my crazy assignments... but you do and I love you. On bad days I just want to crawl into your arms and stay there until all the hurt in the world has gone away because in my mind you have the power to make this happen. You are my super mum... You are a good friend, I love laughing and gossiping with you even though you're my mother and not a class mate.I know that you give so much of your time to us kids and I can't begin to admit how grateful I am, you are wonderful.
Dad; You yell a lot, and you karate kick a lot... but I still wouldn't trade you for another dad. I know when you scoff at things I do or don't give the reaction I was hoping for it's because you want me to always strive for bigger and better things, just like you do. You're a perfectionist and you're working on making me as perfect as I can be. Playing footy or softball with you is one of my favourite child hood memories, you werealways so keen to get us kids up and doing things and even though we often whinged at you we all secretly loved every outing. I love you in my own way and I think in your own way you love me too and people havestrange ways of showing it but fighting with you improves my skills of defending myself so you're making me a stronger person and I will never wish for a different child hood :)
Mum; I spose this is very fitting because right now all I want is a hug from you... Being a teenager is a hard thing and you are the perfect person to help me through. I have no idea how you understandeverything so quickly or how you can want to help me with all of my crazy assignments... but you do and I love you. On bad days I just want to crawl into your arms and stay there until all the hurt in the world has gone away because in my mind you have the power to make this happen. You are my super mum... You are a good friend, I love laughing and gossiping with you even though you're my mother and not a class mate.I know that you give so much of your time to us kids and I can't begin to admit how grateful I am, you are wonderful.
Dad; You yell a lot, and you karate kick a lot... but I still wouldn't trade you for another dad. I know when you scoff at things I do or don't give the reaction I was hoping for it's because you want me to always strive for bigger and better things, just like you do. You're a perfectionist and you're working on making me as perfect as I can be. Playing footy or softball with you is one of my favourite child hood memories, you werealways so keen to get us kids up and doing things and even though we often whinged at you we all secretly loved every outing. I love you in my own way and I think in your own way you love me too and people havestrange ways of showing it but fighting with you improves my skills of defending myself so you're making me a stronger person and I will never wish for a different child hood :)
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madsie
i didn't forget you
You are like the most awesome person I know... I love you, basically... I couldn't and wouldn't want to survive without you. You have your cute little outburst which are so funny and just make my daywhen you tackle me or hug me I feel like I'm in the safest place in the world. You make me laugh so honestly and full..ly? that I long to be around you so I can feel that high again. I feel so free around youyou make me feel like I can fly. You make me a better person. You're so nice to everyone and yet so funny when you're mean about them :P I love sharing secrets with you because I feel like I'm in on something spectacular... and I love fighting with you because it's always so much fun to make up and laugh about it. You're so mean to me! I'm so mean to you! and yet you're probably the person who is the nicest to me you're like a precious china doll to me (scuse the pun) and I feel like you could break or be taken away from me at any moment and I would lose you forever but you're so special that I want to hold on tight incasethat happens.
I could say a million things to you... all that will remain unsaid and I'll just leave it at this.
You are perfect, your flaws are what make you everything, don't forget me if you leave... If I'm no longer in your life please let me stay in your memories.
I could say a million things to you... all that will remain unsaid and I'll just leave it at this.
You are perfect, your flaws are what make you everything, don't forget me if you leave... If I'm no longer in your life please let me stay in your memories.
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madsie
Sentimental Moments #2
Dear Crush.
Litrelly 5 minutes before writing this I spoke to my best friend and I said, pfft as if I don't know what I'm going to write to him, I've had enough time letting it build up... and now I've run out of ideas.Basically I never know what to say to you... my head has gone fricken blank just trying to write you a letter that I know you'll never read... I am so whipped.
There are things you do I don't like... except I like them... because they're you. There are moments when I can't be bothered thinking, so my mind just thinks of you. You'd possibly cringe and run awayif you ever did read this... I spose I sound a little like someone you make fun of often... but hey this thing told me to write to you and i'm having trouble thinking. GOD MY MIND IS BLANK. All I want is you, and youto care about me, and you to hold me cause it feels nice and you to laugh at my rabbit running into boxes with me, while I'm trying to do something serious. I wanna watch glee with you...
I wanna laugh with you
I wanna love you.
Please let me
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madsie
Sentimental Moments #1
Dear Best Friend,
now… you are like the best writer that I know and you wrote me a letter, and I’m not gonna be able to top that but, here’s a little something from me.When I hear something funny I can’t just laugh at it, I laugh at it because I think how funny you would find it and how awesome it would be to laugh at it with you.When I see something excellent I don’t appreciate it on my own now, because I remember what you’d say about it and it makes me love it all the more. When I have inside jokes with you I feel special, when I quote things we both love I feel awesome so here goes.Being part of something special, that being my friendship with you, has made me special and I thank you for that. Don’t worry the full stops in this are definatelynot because I’m angry just because I keep changing thoughts. If someone asked me to explain you, explain our friendship or explain why I want you to stay my best friend…I couldn’t… well not in anything short enough to read in a life time. You’re excellent and you made me funny… which makes you more excellent. I’ve seen you happy, I’ve seen you sadI’ve seen you stressed, drunk, worried, serious, and yeah everything… hyper is one of the funniest :P If I talk of love it’ll just come across as “another queer moment for maddy and vida”but I love you like a sister and you’re part of who I am.You might cringe at some of this letter ;P but that’s ok cause you can go back to laughing at the smurf woman. Remember to buy me that golf buggy. And that is all.
Thank you for being you
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madsie
This thing
So there's this thing, called the 30 day letter challenge that I copied off my friend. You have... 30 days, surprisingly... to write 30 letters, each day to a different, specified person. So here goes guys
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madsie
Section 2 Question 2 "The Power To Write."
The power to write. We all possess this power and can indeed learn it if we do not. In primary school you were taught to make your writing legible and when, at last, you succeeded you were granted a pen licence. In high school you are required to take notes, write essays, stories and even scripts and so the power to write is a great advantage. The question is; do we make good use of this in contemporary society?
How many people bother to build properly formed sentences? How many people bother to learn the correct way to spell certain words? Indeed, how many people know the definitions of words over one syllable? The answers to all of the above questions are alarminly low, so no; I don't believe we make good use of the power to write in contemporary society.
An author nowadays could spin you garbage about sparkling vampires presenting, disturbingly, the idea of both necrophilia and bestiality in one series and be proclaimed a best seller. The art of weaving words into sentences and paragraphs to enable a reader to visualise what you imagined is slowly being lost and weirdness has taken its place.
If a student writes a short story about a boy who, at one stage, eats an apple, they may very well write, "The boy was bored and so ate an apple." There is no texture to that sentence, no feeling. Why shouldn't the student tell you just how rosy and ripe that apple was, exactly how crispy it was to bite in to or how incredibly succulent it was? The boy may very well have been bored and a red flash may have caught his eye as he dawdled past the kitchen, but the students' vision will now be lost because of their carefully thought out and constructed sentence.
We now have the power to write and send messages to others over the internet. I now have the power to instantly tell someone how I am through writing and yet, I find myself answering, "gd n u." When I text I am, again, instantly sending someone a written, or rather a typed, message; "cme ova 2dai plz need 2 stdy." Pray explain to me the need to leave out the o in come and the u in study. Many people will communicate this way more than they will write out essays or even whole sentences and, because of that, when they actually need to spell please it might come out as 'pleaze' or 'pleaz.' The power to write isn't going anywhere, but the power to write effectively is deteriorating quickly. Alarmingly quickly.
In the Victorian era a written letter would go on for days and be so beautifully written that you would enjoy every second of it. Words like fathom, affability and comprehend, amongst others, were not seldom seen as they are today. You didn't just 'understand' something, you could 'comprehend their meaning.' You were never just 'good' you could be 'tolerably well' or 'quite faint' and all of this is being lost over time. Gone are the days when people could be described as having 'such affability' or 'sweet tempers,' no, in their place is good or bad. "The boy was a good sort of boy, always smiling." It feels so boring to read that sentence, I simply feel like I'm sitting on a bench somewhere with nothing worth doing and nowhere worth going.
Language is very powerful and misusing it has become the main reason that the power to write is not put to good use in contemporary society. We still have journalists writing about the outside world, but ask a kid if they routinely read the newspaper and I will make a generally safe bet that they don't. The world is an amazing place, full of wondrous stories to tell, but the newspapers have become dull. The comic section is seldom humorous and the latest tweet from your friends is far more exciting. Journalists have this power to write to and for so many people and yet they just deliver the facts. Where is the fun in figures and statistics when you could be retelling the events of your day to your friends without the use of vowels?
An author has a task, capture peoples' imaginations. A journalist has a task, make it interesting. A student should at least be expected to write fluently, but how often do these momentous events occur?
We write to give the facts of the matter, occasionally make our opinions known and to give a point of view. Experimenting with language has become redundant and far too much effort. Only a handful of people in contemporary society make good use of the power to write.
How many people bother to build properly formed sentences? How many people bother to learn the correct way to spell certain words? Indeed, how many people know the definitions of words over one syllable? The answers to all of the above questions are alarminly low, so no; I don't believe we make good use of the power to write in contemporary society.
An author nowadays could spin you garbage about sparkling vampires presenting, disturbingly, the idea of both necrophilia and bestiality in one series and be proclaimed a best seller. The art of weaving words into sentences and paragraphs to enable a reader to visualise what you imagined is slowly being lost and weirdness has taken its place.
If a student writes a short story about a boy who, at one stage, eats an apple, they may very well write, "The boy was bored and so ate an apple." There is no texture to that sentence, no feeling. Why shouldn't the student tell you just how rosy and ripe that apple was, exactly how crispy it was to bite in to or how incredibly succulent it was? The boy may very well have been bored and a red flash may have caught his eye as he dawdled past the kitchen, but the students' vision will now be lost because of their carefully thought out and constructed sentence.
We now have the power to write and send messages to others over the internet. I now have the power to instantly tell someone how I am through writing and yet, I find myself answering, "gd n u." When I text I am, again, instantly sending someone a written, or rather a typed, message; "cme ova 2dai plz need 2 stdy." Pray explain to me the need to leave out the o in come and the u in study. Many people will communicate this way more than they will write out essays or even whole sentences and, because of that, when they actually need to spell please it might come out as 'pleaze' or 'pleaz.' The power to write isn't going anywhere, but the power to write effectively is deteriorating quickly. Alarmingly quickly.
In the Victorian era a written letter would go on for days and be so beautifully written that you would enjoy every second of it. Words like fathom, affability and comprehend, amongst others, were not seldom seen as they are today. You didn't just 'understand' something, you could 'comprehend their meaning.' You were never just 'good' you could be 'tolerably well' or 'quite faint' and all of this is being lost over time. Gone are the days when people could be described as having 'such affability' or 'sweet tempers,' no, in their place is good or bad. "The boy was a good sort of boy, always smiling." It feels so boring to read that sentence, I simply feel like I'm sitting on a bench somewhere with nothing worth doing and nowhere worth going.
Language is very powerful and misusing it has become the main reason that the power to write is not put to good use in contemporary society. We still have journalists writing about the outside world, but ask a kid if they routinely read the newspaper and I will make a generally safe bet that they don't. The world is an amazing place, full of wondrous stories to tell, but the newspapers have become dull. The comic section is seldom humorous and the latest tweet from your friends is far more exciting. Journalists have this power to write to and for so many people and yet they just deliver the facts. Where is the fun in figures and statistics when you could be retelling the events of your day to your friends without the use of vowels?
An author has a task, capture peoples' imaginations. A journalist has a task, make it interesting. A student should at least be expected to write fluently, but how often do these momentous events occur?
We write to give the facts of the matter, occasionally make our opinions known and to give a point of view. Experimenting with language has become redundant and far too much effort. Only a handful of people in contemporary society make good use of the power to write.
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