I must go down to the seas again

 I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,
And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea's face and a grey dawn breaking.

I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.

I must go down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life,
To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife;
And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover,
And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.

Live Laugh Love :) the little random inspirations

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

the question u cldn't ans

“Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being “in love” which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.”

yes it's constantly on my head
what should've/could've been
but i thought things b/w us had been clear.always.
so why are these whisperings bugging me more than it should
n smtimes i wish u wld stop
bringing up those limitless possibilities
because i might just leave
shld e idea
become a reality

the different facades that i put up amazes me

fb, twitter, & 3 blogs

no wonder i go crazy

"u like this ambiguity

u like this chase

n u're good at pretending that it doesn't matter to u when it does."

i wonder. too

Not all those who wander are lost.

一个人在路上久了，感情也会变得脆弱。

当遇到超级极限的事情， 在无法承受的时刻，马上就会崩溃。

而我，早已忘了自己跨了多少次？

然而，跌过，哭过，最终还是带着伤痕走了过来。

当经历多了，自然极限也就变得更广了，

最终：“不死就好”便成了我的座右铭。

~ 黄爱琳 《再苦也要去旅行》

 

 If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears." - Cesare Pavese

“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese

“All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” – Samuel Johnson

“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quiestest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy

“What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” – William Least Heat Moon

“I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.” – Lillian Smith

“Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.” – Mark Jenkins

I think it scared her...

 

"I think she was afraid to love sometimes. I think it scared her. She was the type to like things that are concrete, like the ocean. Something you could point to and know what it was. I think that's why she always struggled with God. And I think that's why she also struggled with love. She couldn't touch it. She couldn't hold on to it and make sure it never changed."

"Sometimes it's those things you can't touch that you need to hold on to the most."

Did you make it to the milky way to see the lights all faded And that heaven is overrated

#prayforjapan

the news abt earthquakes in japan is affecting me more than it shld

maybe because for once, there is this fear that it might be someone u know

i'm so glad the RAs are safe, along with the others in senshu n kenshukan

but there are so many more out there

dead, missing, trapped

n there's nthing i can do

but to pray.

helpless

Nine-year-old Toshihito Aisawa walks through an evacuation centre in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, carrying two handwritten signs as he continues his search for his father, mother, grandmother and two cousins lost in the quake and tsunami. On one sign is written their names, on the other ‘I will come again tomorrow’

u/s

what fascinates and frustrates me to no end

is how predictable and unpredictable we can get

maybe we are constantly changing

or maybe we change the way we interact with e constant

as things go with time

we might be [closer]

or further a/part

maybe this might end tml

maybe this might go on forever

it is what we don’t know that kills us

but it might also be the unknown that keeps us alive

and despite life being such a bag full of contradictions

we are here

in every moment.

and i guess, it is this eternity

that matters now.

that little bit memory

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more.
~George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

i love foxgloves =) that little garden just outside my window. darmstad. rosdoff. u r missed.

And never, never, to forget.

“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget.”

— Arundhati Roy

if i ever do get a next life.

i want to feel less.

that is.

if i ever do get a next life.

i am one of u

i find myself smiling like a retard whenever i see the clear skies dotted with these tiny little bright white lights

i

sound

uber

gay



they never fail to remind u

of

how small u are

how amazing it is be alive out of the ten thousand unknowns out there



and tucked in some corner of my heart i desperately want to believe

that they remember the names of those who have passed before us.

n in the dark skies watching over me

they

become

eternal

in

memory


n in the infiniteness of constellation

i am one of u

Without a wish, without a will,
I stood upon that silent hill
And stared into the sky until
My eyes were blind with stars and still
I stared into the sky.

一个人的流浪，一个人的解脱

风住尘香花已尽，日晚倦梳头。物是人非事事休，欲语泪先流。
闻说双溪春尚好，也拟泛轻舟。只恐双溪舴艋舟，载不动，许多愁。
（李清照 《武陵春》）

i need to get used to this

i need to get used to this

having to get used to choked up voices when u call over the phone, the hysteria alternating between my mum n my sis

the older one will cry abt my brother's schwork
the younger one will cry abt her r/s

well i can't complain, they were there for me when i ran into problems with the live in terror. after i cut myself tt is. LOL.
just that the crying really makes u depressed, helpless n angry.

lol sucky daughter/sister

~~~~

i want to be a celt

in my alternate life

donned in white

on the cliffs at sky's end

overlooking the heavens and earth

singing n dancing my heart out

u are free n looking retarded at e same time. WHAHAHA

o.u.t

“So far away, but still so near
The lights go on, the music dies
but you don’t see me standing here
I just came to say goodbye”
— Robyn, Dancing on my own

via Kolby Schnelli

because we are forced to conform to doublestandards,

because we have to be someone other then ourselves

which is also why,

i'm still at e losing end.

this is e reason, why i seek for love.

i don't know why...

but there's this fear,

when u talk abt the other half

there's this fear,

that one day, u wld leave me for the other half

there's this fear

that i would crash,

i would be standing by the side of the road, with a burning inferno

alone.

u leaving me. that is what i fear.

i don't know why.

爱是一个自私的念头 把寂寞消除的理由

The lift

The lift makes us all equals.
Business men, super models, rock stars, poor people, strange people, you and me.
We are all silent when confronted with each other.

Then we get out on our different floors (some higher, some lower) and carry on with our lives,
thankful we no longer have to deal with our own inhumanity.

via iwrotethisforu

this never ending road

someone told me life was about hanging on

i tot life was how to go abt going on.

it's this long stretch of winding road, like the delta of the river, people come & go from the road u're taking. sometimes, they stay a little longer with u, but nvr forever.

sometimes u dun feel like goin on cus u see no end. but sometimes u believe that beyond that bend, there's smthing better for u.

it's all in e head aint it. how u wanna go on. wether u wanna go on X)

过山车

the roller coaster ride was fun while it lasted.

but sit on it for too long

u'll feel aimless, going in circles,

after which ur ass will start to hurt.

den u'd feel nauseous.




spare me.

exciting as it may be

i rather sit & watch u go up & down on it alone.

because u're nt the only one that is beautiful

chanced upon this when looking thru echizen's links.

she totally rocks.

i mean i dun think i can ever be as dedicated as her towards my hobby.

*hides my half completed stamp collection & a whole other dun noe wad collection*

and there's so many pros ard... lol.

(photos koped from her DA and some other users collection. just stunning XDXD )