minimalism

There was a time a few years ago when, for reasons I cannot fully comprehend still, I seemed to get very lucky in love. It felt like for a few years that if I fell for a girl somehow she also fell for me. Most of those relationships lasted a few months each, but they were all still very special to me and helped build...
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Sometimes I look back on the people I fell in love with that never fell in love with me and I'm grateful. I realize that it was destined to turn to shit. Or that they weren't the person I put on the pedestal. It doesn't make it hurt any less because by the time I finally come to that conclusion I've already suffered the heartbreak,...
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I was never the guy who wanted to go out with the prettiest girl in the room. Maybe that was because I was never the cutest guy in the room and I was well aware of that. But what I did look for was the most sincere person because that's what I had to offer in return.

Is that to say you are not beautiful?
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For the last 6 months or so I've been slowly flirting with a customer that comes into where I work. It's been going at this pace mainly because she comes in once a week and I'm not always there on the days that she visits. On average I see her once every few weeks.

Over the last two weeks we crossed the chatting threshold into
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Before I moved to Buenos Aires I used to be in touch pretty regularly with quite a few people here that I had met through SG. It wasn't always easy to communicate with my poor Spanish skills and sometimes their lack of English, but we made do.

One person in particular was a former model. She and I wrote back and forth regarding music and...
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I'm not sure what changed since my last blog a few weeks ago. Maybe just time passing, but I've let go of the anger that was welling up. There was no explosion. No outbursts. Just had a run of good luck that changed my attitude.

Truthfully I'm not easily annoyed. It takes a lot to upset me. Mainly a series of things in a row,...
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There's a level of anger inside me that is just below the surface and is dying to come out. It wasn't always this way. Four years ago when I moved to Buenos Aires I was the happiest I have ever been in my life. I was aware at that moment that it would last forever, but I didn't expect to go so far in the...
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I feel like vomiting. I'm falling in love for the first time in three years. I've forgotten what this felt like and it's not exactly pleasant. I still have no idea how she feels about me.