It's been a while since we met. (Draft from 2014)

What is it about putting thoughts out there that inspire you to take it further?

Looking back, I can see why youth is so prized. To me, it's the enthusiasm, energy and naive optimism of youth that's so seductive.

Is that something you can only have when you're young? No. But when you're young, you can dust it off and walk away easy- what's to lose-the world is at my fingertips.

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Your brain is constantly coming up with thoughts. And when words get stuck in your head and aren't let out, they start clogging your brain. They form layer upon layer and huge boxes of unopened words and thoughts. They start piling one on top of the other like dishes left in the sink way past their time. It's easy to forget about them. How can you not, when there's so much. To do, so many people to meet, so much work to be done, so many updates and posts to be read, so many emails to check and songs to hear and clothes to buy.

The boxes start getting hungry then, and demand copious amounts of chips, and alcohol, and weed, and clothes and shoes and bags. The more you pile on the boxes, the hungrier they get till you forget the boxes are there till you can only see the pile of chips that need to be replenished and bowls of ice cream that are nearing empty and need refilling lest you be stuck with a hungry head and an empty bowl. They can devour you in the end and eat through your head and heart and life unless they're opened and the words let out. Those boxes are heavy and rusty and covered in piles and piles of icreamclothesshoeschipsgoo, but they need to be opened nonetheless, so you can live and love and lie and laugh.