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What's the point of trying to fix a world we're so briefly in?

Isaac Marion

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Isaac Marion
Age: 42
Born: 1981
Born: December 30
Music Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Seattle
Washington
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A month ago there was nothing on Earth I missed, enjoyed, or longed for. I knew I could lose everything and not feel anything, and I rested easy in that knowledge. But I'm growing tired of easy things.
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I want a new past,new memories, a new first handshake with love. I want to start over in every possible way.
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We are where we are, however we got here. What matters is where we go next.
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That's why we have memory. And the opposite of memory— hope. So things that are gone can still matter. So we can built off our pasts and make future.
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It's a strange feeling, being so utterly surrounded by her. Her life scent is on everything. She's on me and under me and next to me. It's as if the entire room is made out of her.
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I'm not a general or a colonel or a builder of cities. I'm just a corpse who wants not to be.
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Can we really choose anything?' 'Maybe. If we want to bad enough.
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I don't want to hear music, I don't want the sunrise to be pink. The world is a liar. Its ugliness is overwhelming the scraps of beauty make it worse.
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I can feel it... the chance to start over, to live right, to love right, to burn up in a fiery cloud and never again be buried in the mud.
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I notice faint scars on her wrists and forearms, thin lines too symmetrical to be accidents.
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