I don't know why we take so long to communicate something so simple. In our attempt to gently break another's fall, to position ourselves perfectly for the follow through, we overlook the fact that they are falling faster than expected-- falling to pieces. And you can't catch them when they break this way... and you can't put them back together.

I wanna wake up where you are
I won't say anything at all
so why don't you slide...

Sometimes the line between forgiving and forgetting gets blurred. Or maybe the unshed tears obscure one's vision. What is there to do then, when the one who's supposed to do the forgiving forgets? The hard truth is that it is better to earn one's ire than his indifference.

What you feel is what you are
what you are is beautiful

It must be wonderful to be the rose that swallows the tears of the sky.

And I'd do everything
you ever dreamed to be complete
little pieces of the nothing
that fall away

Jerry McGuire got a lot of tongues wagging for saying, "You complete me." After all, how can a person give himself to another completely if he is not complete? But it should occur to us that sometimes, no matter how we try, we still can't say what we mean all because of our limited vocabulary. Sometimes even, words just get in the way... must it take so much effort to let these little things slide?

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The italicized words are from "Slide" by the Goo Goo Dolls.

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Ang galing nung laban nina Federer at Nadal... grabe. Super exciting. Kagabi lang ako nakapanood ng ganoon kagaling na laban ng tennis.