Chunlei

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“I am not a finished poem, and I am not the song you’ve turned me into. I am a detached human being, making my way in a world that is constantly trying to push me aside, and you who send me letters and emails and beautiful gifts wouldn’t even recognise me if you saw me walking down the street where I live tomorrow
for I am not a poem.
I am tired and worn out and the eyes you would see would not be painted or inspired
but empty and weary
from drinking too much
at all times
and I am not the life of your party who sings and has glorious words to speak
for I don’t speak much
at all
and my voice is raspy and unsteady from unhealthy living and not much sleep and I only use it when I sing and I always sing too much
or not at all
and never when people are around because they expect poems and symphonies and I am not
a poem
but an elegy
at my best
but unedited and uncut and not a lot of people want to work with me because there’s only so much you can do with an audio take, with the plug-ins and EQs and I was born distorted, disordered, and I’m pretty fine with that,
but others are not.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving

tags: artist, audio, beautiful, detached, disorder, disordered, distorted, drinking, elegy, empty, eq, eyes, fine, glorious, growing-up, human, inspired, learning, letters, life, living, painted, party, people, poem, poetry, prose, push-aside, recognize, send, singing, song, speak, street, tired, tomorrow, unhealthy, unsteady, voice, weary, words, world, worn-out

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“Anyone can have a friend, but the one that would walk in a storm to find you is all you will ever need.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: angel, best-friends, dory, friendship, guardian-angel, heart-of-gold, love, quality-friends, search-and-rescue

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“Ironically, the only way to see clearly is to stand at a distance. You might be focused, but that doesn't mean you are seeing correctly. Sometimes, you have you to grab the camera from the idiot taking all the shots in your life because they don't realize the lens is dirty.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“It is not a person or situation that affects your life; it is the meaning you give to that person or situation, which influences your emotions and actions. Your choice is to change the meaning you gave it or to change your response, in order to create the outcome you want.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: affect, agressive, bad-perception, bad-situations, change, come, competition, don-t-fight, don-t-pursue, dreams, ego, emotions, fight, freedom, go, good-perception, good-situations, growth, happiness, hard-questions, intuition, joy, lack-of-intuition, leave, losing, love, meanings, meanings-we-give-people, meanings-we-give-situations, negative-emotions, negative-outlook, no-trust, outcomes, outlook, passive, person, perspective, positive-emotions, positive-outlook, pursue, saddness, sentiments, signs, situation, slavery, stay, symbolism, trust, what-it-means-to-you, winning, wrong-perception

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“What if you were wrong? What if everything you ever believed was a lie? What if you missed your opportunity because you didn't know your worth? What if you settled on familiar, but God was trying to give you something better? What if you decided not to go backwards, but forward? What if doing what you have never done before was the answer to everything that didn't make sense? What if the answer wasn't to be found in words, but in action? What if you found the courage to do what you really wanted to do and doing it changed your whole life?”
― Shannon L. Alder