Prakash

Meet Prakash.
Prakash and I both ordered lemon soda.
I ordered masala, he ordered jaljeera.
His tasted better.
I wanted his.
He refused.
When he wasn't looking,
I swapped our drinks.
I was awesome.
I couldn't stop giggling.
I drank the whole thing.

I found out a few days later
That he knew about the swap the WHOLE time

About Prakash: Indulgent
About Me: Indulged

She, a mother of two grown up girls told me in the course of our almost one sided conversation that she had had a love disappointment when she was younger. She quickly added that her adolescent daughter, my friend; didn't know.
It was how she had come to marry the man she was married to.
From the sound of her story, he was not so much her definition of a husband, more, the a father to her daughters.

Category: Love disappointment

Touch


Category 1: How important is that?
Category2: Very

He told me about how displeased he was with the quality of his long island iced tea at this restaurant that was highly recommended.
I understood his angst.

I told him about how, on my way to dinner, I saw this man, clearly poor, being pushed around by the cops.
I think he understood too.


Category: Disparity

cutting ties

It never mattered how beautiful you were.
Just whether you could hold me.
Hold my attention.

Did I offend your sensibilities as much as all that?
Did I really?


Category: Loss

I feel like a weirdo magnet.
I've met three in the last three weeks.
And one of them was even a little bit creepy.


Category: Radiohead

I-Day

"You never know when one act, or one word of encouragement can change a life forever."

-Zig Ziglar

I don't have the energy to be you.

Category: I was thinking

Sanctum sanctorum

You know those lines that I drew?
The best thing about them?
They were so easy to cross.

Category: Railway crossing, zebra crossing, dacosta square 1st crossing

Dear L,
I learned this from someone, to ask myself 'What next?'
And while this hasn't constrained me,
It has made me more careful about people, about relationships.

K