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    The Art of Being Ignored

    Faceless. Like time itself, endless. Walking away from trouble until again it finds me. Words evaporate in the air, talking is pointless. To be ignored once deserves no merit. To be ignored twice is a warning sign. Be ignored seven times and it’s time to retract, back up, analyze. Just what are you doing standing by? Denial is a defense mechanism, but you can’t nurture it your whole life. I would know better, but I get no help from my fight-or-flight. At some point in the darkness of life you must acknowledge the facts, your unwelcomeness was clear you just never woke up. And yet you’re still here but now…

  • Out of My Comfort Zone

    Have you ever just felt really out of place at some place at some point in your life? I wrote this down on my notepad as I downed some tacos at a bar one night, a few years ago. What I wrote was much longer — the rest of it made it to my book of essays Nostalgia and Deal Breakers. These isolation times are reminding me of those earlier times for some reason. Can you relate? A lot of people are afraid to admit these sort of things. For the record, it’s healthy to let it out of your system! Here’s the story I took a deep breath upon…