Internal Dialogue

[ Continuation from Part I ]
When we left high school, everyone in our group went their separate ways. I personally expected the contact between us to fade, because except for the occasional lan party we had nothing else in common. But this quickly changed.

A returning subject between me and my friends is that of our origins. Our past. Our history, so to speak. Even though we’ve ‘only’ known each other for about nine years, certain things are already beginning to fade. But there are other things that we still remember vividly. So vividly that they could have happened [...]

Questions like “Why are we here?” have been asked so many times that it’s almost a cliché to bring it up. Yet people never really think about it. Why are we here? What good is it all? What’s the use of living?
After my post about the LHC someone told me that even if this thing [...]

How can you see into my eyes like open doors
Leading you down into my core
Where I’ve become so numb without a soul
My spirit sleeping somewhere cold
Until you find it there and lead it back home
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Recently, during a conversation with a very good friend, I mentioned the importance of letting things go. I told this friend [...]

It’s not that I ever had any real faith in humanity as a whole to begin with, but efforts like this really make me scratch my head. Idiots is not a big enough word. This is just another example of a pathetic bunch of people fighting against something they don’t understand. They honestly don’t know [...]

A lonely streak of light briefly pierces through the thick cloud cover. Monday morning, Steenweg, Utrecht. I reflect on my expectation that most stores would be closed on Monday (shouldn’t they be?), but quickly forget about it as a group of Japanese tourists pass me in opposite direction. Someone on a bike traverses the narrow [...]