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Something I overheard in conversations

Note: This was overheard in one session while I was at a bar, enjoying a Saturday night drinking. These things may be a lot to overhear, but please remember I was at a bar, people were talking all around me and I took my time finishing my drinks, so I was able to hear them to the end.

#1

    “Those people, I’m okay with them. They got a point to prove, and they want me to agree with them. So they talk and talk leads to argument. And that’s okay, because through an argument we come to a point where we can both agree on. And if they walk away in anger, well that means we just don’t see eye to eye. With the number of people in this world, you wouldn’t be surprised, right?

But she? She’s something else. She doesn’t give a shit. She wants what she wants at the moment, and she will claw out your eyes if it means getting what she wants. You can’t reason with her. To her, what she wants is everything and argument is getting in the way of it.

    Whereas other people would argue with me with fire in their eyes, she would throw away her clothe and fuck me until I agree with her. Really, she’s my exact opposite.”

#2

    “That was the first time I saw my dad break down. I mean, he’s flesh and bones, and he does have emotions so I shouldn’t have been shocked to see him break down, but still all these years seeing him so composed and calm, always in control just made me forgot that he was human after all.”

#3

    “Listen, I’m serious about this. ‘Cause think about it. Everything I do will affect that child. I will be his base for his ideals. What if I fuck up that child’s life because of what I do?”

#4

    “It’s really simple. I hate everyone including myself, but what’s also true is that I love everyone excluding myself. So if I’m out of the picture I’m happy. I swear I’ll be a happy man in a world that turns and moves about without me.”

#5

    “It’s taken 30 years to change ‘I fucking hate myself’ to ‘I hate myself’. God knows how long it’ll take for ‘I tolerate myself’ to kick in.”

#6

“For my purpose, it is better that she be in that state. To hold her forever in her youth, to never see her grow old, that is how I would like to have her.”

#7

    “All that we say is just a distant echo of what our forefather has said and done. All we are doing is just passing down that echo to our children.”

#8

    “And for the next 5months I heard constant stream of low murmur voice from left and right of me. It just went on day and night, no stop. I sear if it went on a month longer I would have gone insane.”

#9

    “When I died and went hell for the first time, my punishment was to be cut to pieces alive. And as they, I mean the demons of hell sliced my body nails by nails, finger tips by finger tips, limbs by limbs and teeth by teeth, they mumbled ‘She lives’, ‘We take her’, ‘she lives’, ‘We take her’, and so forth. When they took out my heart and made me watch it stop beating, they said ‘We take her’. And after that I was reincarnated. And when I turned 21 my aunt died. When I died and went to hell the second time I was put through the same thing again, only this time they said ‘We take him’, and again as they took out my heart and made me watch my heart stop beating, they said ‘We take him’. And again I was reincarnated, I turned 21 my uncle died. The third time I died and went to hell, I ripped off a toenail from my left toe, and since they were one short of taking anyone, when I was reincarnated and turned 21 my grandmother fell deathly ill but walked away fine.”

#10

    “My first memory? Don’t go really far, but I think it was a dream I had when I was a child. In it I traded my place with a girl who lost her life so early and wanted to see their parents before she is sent to where ever dead people go to. So she possess my body and I leave my body, and she the dead girl met her parents and I guess they had some hugs and kisses and she said she’s gotta go, and the parents were a little hesitant about it, and when the time came that the dead girl really had to go and I was to possess my body back, they both held the body and screamed don’t go. And the girl said But if I don’t go she’ll be the ghost, and the parents said they don’t care, they just want her back. And they argued on and on and I just watched them because I didn’t know what to do, and finally the dead girl said something like And you want her parents to suffer like you did? You want them to feel what it’s like to lose a daughter? At that they loosened their grips, and then she did the final stroke by saying that all those days of being dead and gone, the only thing that saved her was the memories of her parents. And that she doesn’t want those memories tarnished. So please let me go. So they let her go, she went to wherever, and I came back. And her parents just kept crying and crying, and I just kind of stood there not knowing what to do. That’s about all I remember. There may have been more, but I had this dream so long ago, I can’t even remember every details of it. Kinda feels vivid? Who the hell knows, may have been from my past.”

11

    “Listen, there are only two most important moments in our lives. When we are born and when we die. And we live our lives in pursuit of meaning and things to do so we can tell our selves there is a meaning in our lives until the day we die. Then when we die we piece together everything in our lives and go delusional enough to tell our selves that was all that was. That wasn’t so bad. And you really should try your hands at the whole trying shit out or you are gonna spend the rest of your afterlife regretting why the fuck hadn’t I tried that.”

12

    “I want you to listen to me, because I really mean it. Do not despair, do not fear, do not give up hope, and do not cry. It may seem like everything is very hard right now, and people are adding more weight to that problem. But please know that people can change, and they can change for good. If they seem like they are not going to change, then there are more you should know. That 1, you can always walk far away from it if it looks insignificant, and 2, no one lives forever. If they don’t feel like changing, let them die and that would be the end of that.”

13

    “And she tells me ‘Oh,so you finally know who I am now? Yes, that’s right, I am the monster that your mother wanted me to be, so you’d run away from me and come back to her. She succeeded didn’t she? Well, I’m going back to hell now. Hope you live well, you poor soul, I love you’. What? Kill mom? Don’t think so. Yes, she destroyed everything that was dear to me. And she did that so I have no place but beside her. It’s not love. And that I have nothing to live for anymore, all I can do now is to watch her die bit by bit and become a deranged sack of flesh.”

14

    “Yeah, just got back. What? No, I’m okay. I mean losing a mother is hard on all. But she did live a long life and I did my best to love her as much a son could. Don’t know if I could have done more. Dad didn’t fare well though. He lost his wife, his love, et cetra and all. He was really besides himself.”

15

    “Well, when I was born I remember falling down this vast dark space. I didn’t feel any fear or anything. I just fell and fell, and then something grabbed me real gentle like, and I was brought to this light. And here I am now.”