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Category: Adi Alsaid

I keep expecting to bump into you two on the road, but maybe the universe isn’t yet ready to handle you and me side by side again.

adi-alsaid, friendship, roadtrip, universe

A native tongue, in my opinion, isn’t the language spoken where you were born or the first language you learned; it’s a language that makes you feel at home. It’s a language that you don’t command, but that commands you. And without it, you’d feel lost, unsure of how to express to the world everything you care enough to express.

The thing with thoughts is that they die, like everything else. But almost everything else leaves a trace behind, even if it’s a tiny carcass, some proof that it existed. Unless thoughts are spoken or written or sung or acted upon, there’s no evidence that they were ever there.

To be sorry you hurt me is not enough for me to forgive you.

forget, forgive, no, sorry

The sun kept dipping down into the ocean and the lights came on at the harbor, casting sudden shadows on the ground, illuminating the faces that were just a second ago silhouettes. The sky was golden and purple, the ocean a darker shade of violet.

golden, gorgeous, illuminate, ocean, pretty, setting, sky, sun, violet, visualize

No point in living a life less ordinary if you don’t know what the other side looks like.

life, ordinary, true, truth, unique

She wanted to reach up to the night and dig her fingers into it, beg it to stay just a little bit longer.

imagery, inspirational, night, reflection, thoughtful

All the recognizable cliques came by, and so did those un-groupable stragglers who were known by their little circles of two or three.

clique, friend, friends, group, high-school

What if she was supposed to be a painter, but no one ever gave her a brush?

life-and-living, life-purpose

People go entire lives without figuring out exactly what they want from life. You already have it, and the future you and your dad have planned out for you in going to take it away from you.

adi-alsaid, future, let-s-get-lost, life

Then that’s what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we’re not living.

inspiration, life, life-and-living, northern-lights, the-sky-is-the-limit

Panic strikes me when I think about a sentence that isn’t given the chance to live because I don’t have a pen in my hand or am not sitting near enough to someone familiar to speak it to. Especially if it’s a particularly good sentence, a sentence with truth or beauty or humor or sadness to it. The best ones always take you by surprise. They sneak into your head while you’re walking down the aisles at a supermarket, or flat-out assault you when you’re at your grandmother’s funeral, and you have to scramble to give the thought life before it’s gone forever. Cocktail napkins, palms, text messages sent to yourself.

somewhere-over-the-sun, writing, writing-life