Ask Allen And Eleanor For A Movie Review.

Ask Allen and Eleanor for a movie review.

The young man looked at her with furrowed eyebrows. “You hate that they’re happy?”

“No,” Terez corrected, “I hate that I can feel their happiness, but I still have yet to feel my own.”

Prompt #650

“I can feel everyone’s happiness…I hate it.” 

“To find beauty in such a thing. Snowflakes falling from the sky. Shoved this way and that by the wind. Nothing to hold onto. No stability. None. Powerless concerning where it will end up in the end. To begin with such originality, such uniqueness, none of the other snowflakes having that individual snowflake’s same pattern, only for it to fall atop the others and then be viewed as a blanket of white, stripped of it’s individuality to fade amongst its fellow snowflakes.”

“I suppose it is a monstrosity to take delight from looking out the window...”

“And to instead ignore the beauty that the world has to offer? To turn away from millions of snowflakes dancing to a song that only they can hear until, one by one, they join the other snowflakes to stay or melt together and are ready to catch and care for other snowflakes that wish to join them?”

“Good God, you make my head hurt.”

“I make you think. A hurting head is a sign of a lazy mind. Never let your mind grow lazy, Alice.”

(Inspired by the first picture)

And to have thought that I was great at balancing as a child, lifting one foot in the air and placing it perfectly (through a kid’s eyes) in front of the other, on a railroad track that was paved out for me. Here I am now, stumbling on the tightrope we call life. There are no cleared paths. No parents ready to catch you if you slip. Only my arms out to support myself.

Picture prompt: Write a story or a character profile inspired by these pictures.

Try to use all of them!

(Pictures come from public domain/free use archives.)

The wise words of Sam Raegan, to be honest.

True love is when your desire for the object of your affection to be happy is greater than your desire to bone them.

Sam’s Advice #1

Alright, so apparently there are people in the world whom need some advice, and decided that it’d be a good idea to come to me. But I suppose that I’ll grace you all with my wisdom. First letter I’ve got here is from Anonymous:

Dear advice columnist (that is really just fucking Sam),

I've known this guy for quite a while now and I really like him, I just feel like we never have the right time or moment for me to make a move of some sort. Also sometimes he acts strangely, as if he doesn't know me all that well. What can I do to become closer to him and see if he likes me?

Well, Ro- I mean “Anonymous,” I’m going to take a guess and say that you both know each other pretty well already. So really, you just need to tell Ze- the guy how you feel and figure out how he feels, you need to wait for that right moment.

Just like a writer waiting for THE RIGHT words to write something (breaking down the fourth wall and calling out the blogger), or a photographer needs THE RIGHT scenery to take a picture.

I totally get it. I mean, waiting for wind to blow the trees leaves just right, or for every strand of my model’s hair to be just right, or when I’m taking pictures at the zoo then for the animals to get in the right positions-

If I wanted for the right time to take a picture, I would be living in a box on the side of the road while other photographers, real photographers, seized all of the opportunities that I passed up in sake of waiting for perfection.

Take charge of the situation and make it the right moment, before someone else does. As much as I hate having to type out this cheesy shit, if you keep waiting for the right moment, you will become an old woman or man living alone while children are throwing eggs at your house. And making the moment right would make your confession much more memorable. For all you know, this mystery man may be acting strangely because he likes you back and is also waiting for the right moment that neither of you are willing to create.

So in short, get your head out of your ass and do something about your feelings.

This has been a session of Sam’s Advice with your favorite asshole, Samuel Raegan.

// Ask Sam for advice! But not for legitimate advice. Sam is a bit of an ass and this is solely for comedic purposes.