Street / Lounge Poetry-type Texts: Chapter 0 - Barcelona 2005

- Her email sounded like her voice - soft and reassuring... "everything is going to be ok"... but it isn't.
- These demented lands that remind you of past pain, that rub salt in your wounds... that make you forget the beauty, the simplicity... the hope. These demented lands are for demented people, people that "don't suffer from insanity, but enjoy every minute of it"... Is he one of those? Can he find love again amidst all this confusion and pain? Can he reassure himself that "everything is going to be ok"?
- Barcelona reminds him of his life: hectic, eclectic, paradoxal, intense, dirty, yet after all simple, painfully simple.
- A mistake is only a mistake if it doesn't disappear from your memory, occupying the space you need in order to live your present and future life.
- Once upon a time, there was a man... He thinks there was a woman too, but he's not too sure. The man dreamt a lot and failed to see his real life for a while... afterwards he lived life, but couldn't dream any more. She... well, she hasn't been around that much.
- Loving is such a corrupt word... it indicates something that is on-going, typically beautiful, yet so elusive.
- "Today, I start!" - he kept saying... yet, he never did. What was missing? What made that a bad day to start with? Was it his own fault or of those around him? Maybe it was the weather? Maybe traffic? Maybe the Tube? Who knows? He just failed to start... day, after day, after day.
- On a positive note... he does like himself. He just doesn't say it that often any more, but he does feel it... most of the time.
- Random thoughts are random or predictable given the normal prerogative of an insane man. Are we just normal people with random thoughts or have we actually become insane people with normal thoughts? If the latter is the case, then maybe our life is that of normality ... under changing (and insane) perspectives.
- "Did you like the steak?"
"Sorry?"
"The steak?"
"Oh. It was magnificent."
Why magnificent? Why such a word? Mental note: Re-evaluate use of adjectives that are too powerful like "magnificent" and "powerful"