Crazy Eight

If I go away” If I go away, can you promise me that you’ll never forget me? And all those days in the summer we spent laughing so hard that our stomachs hurt? Promise me, you’ll never forget all those things we said to each other in silence, with our eyes. Can you promise not to forget how sweetly it was to breathe next to each other wanting so much…? You won’t forget all those mornings and coffees? Right? Can you promise me You won’t do all that with someone new who’ll maybe come and take this place? Can you promise me not to forget me if I go away?

I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a time I can’t believe it now. The memory of being that intimate with somebody. We were so intimate I could puke. I can’t imagine ever being that intimate with somebody else. I haven’t been.

National Geographic has put together this amazing interactive infographic of what the world eats, part of their Future of Food series. 

For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?

The fear, too, is a fear of yourself: a completely dualistic and contradictory fear. On the one hand it is a fear that you do not have what it takes to make it, and on the other hand, a possibly greater fear that you do have what it takes, and that by definition you therefore also have a responsibility to do something really big. It’s a little daunting, going out into the world with this state of mind.