Always, all that is required is a  desire .
For if you have that, then everything else becomes secondary.

pain ,  fear ,  ostracism , they all become necessary but bareable payments for the only thing that's real.

80 years if you're lucky. 100 if you're blessed.
At the end you'll be dying...

Walk steady in life
for one day you will no longer be able.

Some will see it coming for years
while others will fall within a breath .

Notice the breath you have just taken. Remember it.
Now think of the next you are about to take.

Since you were born you have taken breaths
regularly....

Only the  international students were around on this  cold , wet day, when late in the evening a sharp hunger abruptly hit. I had been so exhausted from finals week that my fridge had nothing but old  condiments .

I had nothing on my schedule. So i put on my coat...

As he walked up the stairwell to the office, it felt eerie. Something had happened.

When he opened the unlocked door he already knew Vickey wouldn't be there.

He went in prepared, fist clenched. He would have to keep the intruder at arms distance in case they had a  knife .

Greco tiptoed...

When he saw the photo of the Un-Named man he felt a deep fear. The kind of feeling you only had once you were a  father . Because you didn't fear for things like that yourself. You only feared it for your loved ones. The  vulnerable people that you would...

police officer Dan Anderson sat in the employee lounge listening to the ceiling fan turn overhead. His break was technically up five minutes ago, but he knew that it wouldn't matter if he sat there for another extra five.

He enjoyed this part of the day. Sitting there, not thinking about...

Having a lot to say, is a young person's game. Although may old people can't stop talking.

I guess it's more accurate to say, that having a lot to say, is an un illuminated person's game.

I remember in college when I was the most lost and confused, I was the most...

Stories and memories get condensed. Like Jake might say he's going out with Mike for a  beer when in fact there was a lot more they did than just get a beer. But we can communicate with each other by saying these symbolic meanings.

Went out for a beer.

The person we...

In his sleep, he floated through black.

Lifted slowly until he realized that he was dreaming.

He had not dreamt like this in a long time. dream s had been events remembered after the fact, rather than something he was aware of in the moment.

The sound of the autumn gust -- and...

When he got out to the street, he realized the party was over. His car was one of the only one there.

As he walked to it, he could hear the other group leaving in the distance, walking off, their voices trailing into the air.

The air was a sheet of  mist...