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For this story, I was playing with the concept of how much memory we put into or associate into objects that we decide to keep in our room. And its placement in the room is also not arbitrary, we choose to put things in its certain places with its certain memory because that's when we decide whether or not it's a good story to tell or if it's something we should keep for just certain people. And then I used the characters of a mother and a daughter because it is believed that a mother knows everything about her child but at the end she comes home with all these new information about her daughter through the objects in her room.

A story of strangers and kept promises. I think when I was writing this instant story, I was thinking of the concept of promises and how the people we trust to not break promises are usually the ones who do. And those we expect to break promises, usually don't. And so it happens in this strange encounter with someone on a day you're not particularly a fan of.

This story could have a Maturation plot wherein something you're so used to having around is suddenly taken away from you, how do you act upon it? When you're forced to mature will you succumb to the force? Or will you hopelessly wait for that thing taken away from you to come back so for now you'll sleep on the couch? 

This story would most likely head into the direction of an almost love story. Like, you have all the elements present in a simple, straightforward love story, and just when we're about to think that the almost will turn real, we're faced with reality that it doesn't really happen the way we want it to be. Just like in our lives where we almost always have almost-love-stories.

Unrequited love perhaps? Right now it looks a bit shallow but if I were to develop this into a full blown story it would probably be dealing with the issues of when and how do we take rejections from someone we care about. When is enough really enough? How do we interpret and misinterpret words spoken to us? 

This story could be about a reflection of our society and how we come across information nowadays, and what we do with said information. Especially if the information we get is something that could possibly change radically an aspect of the society and more importantly our lives, what do we do with it? Do we act upon the given information or do we simply ignore it?

If I were to expand this story more, it would most likely become a story about two strangers getting opinions from each other on a random day. What makes it appealing, for me, is the contrast between the two characters. The girl is this young, carefree, artsy, freethinker while the man is an office worker who seems to have everything in a cubicle. They get insights from each other and they understand the world better through someone who is the total opposite of them. But then after they part, they never meet again. I guess it's a reflection of how we get our road-to-eureka moments in our lives. It's delivered by the most random person ever and most of the time, you don't get to see them anymore.