at a certain point I have to wonder,
what the fuck was that leap of faith for?
I see the young woman who works where I work
(though you could hardly say we work together)
and I see something of myself reflected
the 20-something kid is laboriously quiet
unwilling to take much risk
seeming like she feels hollow
Jim Carey told a story about his dad
I want to tell you a story, that happened about ten years ago. An adult man, in his 30s, picked up the phone and learned that his father, who had just turned 61, had had a massive heart attack. The kind where he clinically died and was only revived by the fortune of having a first responder immediately behind his vehicle when it swerved off the road. The type of heart attack where he was in a coma in an ICU with no timeline for when he would wake up. A heart attack and subsequent coma that made
…you could not imagine
how amazing you looked
through my eyes.
when i think about you
even now,
all i see is this remarkable,
extraordinary
person
so unique that it blew my mind.
it's wild how we can't
really
see ourselves
the way others do.
if you could have seen what I saw,
just for a moment..
i wish i could have downloaded
Someone told me about Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon. Now I see references to it everywhere.
While I independently arrived at the joke, I immediately suspected that, somewhere on the internet, someone had probably made it before.
I was right.
I hate when I make an original joke and then find previous occurences of it, like, everywhere. There should be a term for that. I suppose if someone thought they were so brilliant that nobo
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