An Open Letter

No, don't worry, no political chat here...

Instead I'm writing an open letter to a beast called Sentiment and it's backwards looking, neck curling, reality twisting and rose tinting limbs.

Sentiment, I hate you.

I loath you not for those beautiful moments you've allowed me to remember in petroleum jelly covered lens softness, I don't hate you for those old feelings of warm and fuzzy that you've let me keep and relive at random intervals throughout any day, when thoughts of friends, family or a loved one creep into my head, those things are the reasons I adore you and have kept you around for so long.

Sentiment, I use to love you.

Unfortunately, you've crossed the line.

You're keepin' me down man. You gotta go.

I won't say it'll be fun, and it probably won't be quick, but you're out.

One of my oldest friends use to tell me I was able to cut myself out of any situation with surgical precision, the same friend, accused me of being sentimental not three weeks ago!

So I'm done, and instead taking another wonderful friend's advice and writing a list of superpowers that I would like to have. They may not be useful, they may be a little odd, but they're mine, here is a small selection:

• I would like to be able to see into people's shoes -- I hate feet. Those of you that know me well know that I can hardly touch my own, so I'd like to know what other people's feet look like before I allow them into my house and see their feet (this is Asia, where the shoes stay at the door yo.)
• I'd like to be able to cure mild headaches and colds -- Just because this would essentially make me the most popular person in the world, although, it may lead to a Midas touch type situation whereby I would be surrounded by only mildly sick people.
• I'd like to be able to relieve poverty by drilling good economic sense into the corrupt governments of poverty stricken countries.
• Leading on from the last one I would also like to have all corrupt world leaders murdered with no emotional or other negative consequences.
• I would like to have the strength to turn down baked goods, or not finish a slice of cake -- those of you that know me well know that this is the most ambitious.
• Being able to transport myself from one place to another in an instance. For obvious reasons this would be awesome.

As yet, this list contains no real ambitions, I mean, they are really things I want, they're just completely unachievable. I'm working on it though.

Christmas and New Year were awesome thanks to some grade A hospitality. I got a Fuji instax, and some perfume. More than I deserved. This does mean that I've been polaroiding away and have very few digital pictures though. These wee gems were found on my phone....

Double G had some horns lying around. Really.

My language exchange, more an eat and bitch. How cute is that though?

Friggin' cute eh?

Still cute, adulthood looming... dum dum duuuuum...

That's all I have, it isn't much, I know. I have a bunch of unedited entries which I need to get around to posting considering they're far more interesting and insightful. meh.

Dx