Articles by Stealth Tomato
Since this is a subject I'm rather passionate about, I crafted quite a long response. I feel like it deserves a stand-alone blog entry, if only for my own reference.
The original blog is here; I suggest you read it, but entirely understand if it's too long for your taste. My response...
Well, I'm an idiot, so of course after rambling on about nothing for a bit, I find I have something actually important (to me) to write.
Somehow, I feel compelled to tell the story of my blog title. For a long time, it was called "She's my Arizona". It's been this slight variation since I...
I haven't written anything here in a long time, and I'm pretty proud of that. I finally figured out to talk to these things with the people in my life (and to just not worry as much, but anyway). But, I graduated this spring, and in the process of leaving, I just said goodbye to the last...
Caring is not "I'm sad when you're sad", it's "When you're sad, I want to make you happy".
People should really learn the difference. It tends to cause them a lot of sadness... and me a lot of annoyance when I have to explain to a third party why I'm not acting sad for someone.
Today I realized that my level of attraction to a girl is significantly influenced by her name, thus making this a weird day.
"Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in the first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker."
-Mike McDermott, Rounders
I'm pretty sure I'm afraid life works this way too.
I just realized that I've written just a single blog in the last two months. That's pretty telling, in a number of ways. I've gotten my head in order somewhat, I've finally found a couple of people who are really great for when I can't, and I've simply graduated from this place and found more...
This summer's been fucking crazy.
I actively avoid:
1. Direction
2. Relationships
3. Extreme busyness.
1 and 3 have been completely shot to hell this summer. Got a sweet job with an awesome crew, and everything just spiraled from there. Not that I haven't enjoyed it; I've absolutely...
I guess, in the end, that it's difficult to express
that you're the best thing that's ever happened to me.
Some days the world absolutely kicks your ass. This is not one of those days. This is precisely the opposite. I am in control and I am rocking it.
And I want the hell out.
I always loved being a drifter of sorts... and I knew it would have to turn around, but I never really expected the...
So I was walking along the median of the nearby highway last night, as I like to do from time to time, and I came upon what was clearly a table leg.
How peculiar.
The internet is actually a pretty good simulation of real life.
You choose your character, and that character really does go through a life. One up: that character's life affects yours, and your life affects the character's.
But as much as some people try to make that character themselves, it...
"You see, most gamblers, when they go to gamble, they go to win. When we go to gamble, we go to lose subconsciously. Me, I never feel better or more alive than when they're raking the chips away, not bringing them in, and everybody here knows what I'm talking about. Hell, even when we win...
I think I was 16 when I snapped.
One day, as an overachieving, socially-stunted sophomore applying to college, I realized that after 10 years of work for the future, I found myself 10 years away from the results. And I started to feel like the future would always be a few years away.
That, I...
The thing about making friendships and not relationships is that when the time comes to leave, it's always in separate ways. Sure, we keep in touch. But it's never the same. The phone just doesn't cut it like being in the same room.
You're one of the best friends I'll ever have, and yet...