Saturday, January 08, 2005
Hullo everyone. Alive and kicking am I. It's 3:30 in the bloody AM (regardless what the line below stating the time that this was posted says), and I don't feel any sleepier *sighs* It's one of those days. Forgive the wet depressive blanket I'm about to throw. If it makes anyone feel better, I'll be using it to wrap myself up in it. So there :)
Heh, that's me. Always a smile somewhere eh? I have to. Everytime I flip open the papers, or switch on the TV, I'm reminded that there're worst things happening out there. Seriously. Our problems can't compare. We owe it, not to just ourselves, but to the people around us that we love to carry on. Not as if nothing's happened though. That would cheapen any efforts strangers around us have made. We can't have that can we? We're supposed to know better. Don't we...?
No worries. Really, I'm fine. I've just had a few drinks, and the cool drizzly weather just adds to the effect. I have great friends. The best. And a round of applause to my parents too. Heh, I owe them too much.
Anyone who's reading this would most probably know me well enough. Heh, I write for my friends, as much as myself. So I apologise to all of you. I think it's only right for you lot to know that I'm only human too. That, vicious optimism or not, I'm as alone as the rest of you when I lay my head upon my pillow and close my eyes.
It's been a bad week. Not because of how it went, but more on how it started. You know how I thought it couldn't get any worse? Heh, well...
So last Sunday, I'm hanging out at a friend's friend's place. He has an adorable mongrel. Friendliest thing in the world. Has a bad habit of humping inanimate objects though. Went 15 minutes on my bag (yes, that bag). That, I didn't mind. When it started taking a 5 minute piss on it, that's when I started getting a tad miffed. *sigh* How does that line go again? When it rains, it pours...
I've said this before, and I'll say it again. I'll be okay. No, really. Give me the time. I'm only human :)
"Turn down the lights, turn down the bed
Turn down these voices inside my head
Lay down with me, tell me no lies
Just hold me close, don't patronize
Don't patronize me
'Cause I can't make you love me If you don't
You can't make your heart feel something it won't
Here in the dark in these final hours
I will lay down my heart, and I'll feel the power
But you won't, no you won't
And I can't make you love me
If you don't
I'll close my eyes and then I won't see
The love you do not feel, when you're holding me
Morning will come, and I'll do what's right
Just give me till then, to give up this fight
And I will give up this fight
And I can't make you love me if you don't
You can't make your heart feel something it won't
And here in the dark in these final hours
I will lay down my heart and I'll feel the power
But you won't, no, you won't
And I can't make you love me
If you don't
Ain't no use in you trying
It's no good for me baby without love
All my tears, all these years, everything I believed in
Baby
Oh yeah
Someone's gonna love me"
----- Bonnie Raitt & Bruce Hornsby, "I Can't Make You Love Me"
Heh, that's me. Always a smile somewhere eh? I have to. Everytime I flip open the papers, or switch on the TV, I'm reminded that there're worst things happening out there. Seriously. Our problems can't compare. We owe it, not to just ourselves, but to the people around us that we love to carry on. Not as if nothing's happened though. That would cheapen any efforts strangers around us have made. We can't have that can we? We're supposed to know better. Don't we...?
No worries. Really, I'm fine. I've just had a few drinks, and the cool drizzly weather just adds to the effect. I have great friends. The best. And a round of applause to my parents too. Heh, I owe them too much.
Anyone who's reading this would most probably know me well enough. Heh, I write for my friends, as much as myself. So I apologise to all of you. I think it's only right for you lot to know that I'm only human too. That, vicious optimism or not, I'm as alone as the rest of you when I lay my head upon my pillow and close my eyes.
It's been a bad week. Not because of how it went, but more on how it started. You know how I thought it couldn't get any worse? Heh, well...
So last Sunday, I'm hanging out at a friend's friend's place. He has an adorable mongrel. Friendliest thing in the world. Has a bad habit of humping inanimate objects though. Went 15 minutes on my bag (yes, that bag). That, I didn't mind. When it started taking a 5 minute piss on it, that's when I started getting a tad miffed. *sigh* How does that line go again? When it rains, it pours...
I've said this before, and I'll say it again. I'll be okay. No, really. Give me the time. I'm only human :)
"Turn down the lights, turn down the bed
Turn down these voices inside my head
Lay down with me, tell me no lies
Just hold me close, don't patronize
Don't patronize me
'Cause I can't make you love me If you don't
You can't make your heart feel something it won't
Here in the dark in these final hours
I will lay down my heart, and I'll feel the power
But you won't, no you won't
And I can't make you love me
If you don't
I'll close my eyes and then I won't see
The love you do not feel, when you're holding me
Morning will come, and I'll do what's right
Just give me till then, to give up this fight
And I will give up this fight
And I can't make you love me if you don't
You can't make your heart feel something it won't
And here in the dark in these final hours
I will lay down my heart and I'll feel the power
But you won't, no, you won't
And I can't make you love me
If you don't
Ain't no use in you trying
It's no good for me baby without love
All my tears, all these years, everything I believed in
Baby
Oh yeah
Someone's gonna love me"
----- Bonnie Raitt & Bruce Hornsby, "I Can't Make You Love Me"
