Today, I found myself.. (Day 21)

Today, I found myself planning for a routine and a lifestyle, while facing awkwardness.

Today, I found myself.. (Day 20)

Today, I found myself indulging in yogurt while talking about life in a drama series.

Today, I found myself.. (Day 19)

Today, I found myself getting bitch-slapped from Audrey after a few casual drinks.

Today, I found myself.. (Day 18)

Today, I found myself facing the day with contradictory intentions.

Today, I found myself.. (Day 17)

Today, I found myself waiting for the finals, with an annoyance of what I might experience 60 years from now.

Today, I found myself.. (Day 16)

Today, I found myself indulging a life in those of TV dramas.

Today, I found myself.. (Day 15)

Today, I found myself eating burnt pancakes while wishing for the ability to stop time.

Today, I found myself.. (Day 14)

Today, I found myself realising that a good, sunny day doesn’t mean good photographs, or any at all.

Today, I found myself.. (Day 13)

Today, I found myself mixing alcohol and work while wanting to leave the house.

Today, I found myself.. (Day 12)

Today, I found myself differentiating one day to another in 3 hours.

Today, I found myself.. (Day 11)

Today, I found myself exercising the pinkie before drinking the 3 in 1 in hopes of extending the day. 

Today, I found myself.. (Day 10)

Today, I found myself listening to the voice.

Today, I found myself.. (Day 9)

Today, I found myself experiencing the appetite for yesteryear’s strain.

Today, I found myself.. (Day 8)

Today, I found myself feeling a familiar strain with a difference.

Today, I found myself.. (Day 7)

Today, I found myself experiencing déjà vu but not knowing what comes after.

Today, I found myself.. (Day 6)

Today, I found myself contemplating composure while celebrating for champions.

Today, I found myself.. (Day 5)

Today, I found myself walking in the rain, with bags of stone and agenda in mind.

Today, I found myself.. (Day 4)

Today, I found myself wearing my underwear on the outside after a manic day.

Today, I found myself.. (Day 3)

Today, I found myself believing in Murphy’s existence a little more.

Today, I found myself.. (Day 2)

Today, I found myself wanting to shampoo my hair a little more than usual.

Today, I found myself.. (Day 1)

Today, I found myself starting a journey, a revolution.

Today, I found myself.. a Revelation

"Today, I found myself.."

While on the way home, I thought about life and perspectives and seemingly out of nowhere, an idea hit me like a bus that got me thinking.

Very so often, I find myself questioning my day's validity; whether if each and every single one of my days were significant enough to be remembered say, a year from now. And I found my answer to be a sad "no, I can't".

To me, literature is a perspective, a form of memory of sorts. And in this experimental twist of fate, I finally devised an interesting concept of keeping track of my day's significance.

"Today, I found myself.." is a perspective. It can also be a way of life, and a reminisce of sorts.

Simply put, "Today, I found myself.." is an expression of faith and hope and a journey of self preservation in essence.

It is a journey of significance and a celebration of these significances as well. Life is full of color, so why not jot down every single detail of that fabulous shade?

From today on, metallic-stains will be (very) constantly updated. "Today, I found myself.." tells us of a continuum and a collection of days. Daily, a simple "Today, I found myself" post will be updated and posted on the site, in addition to the normal insights and updates of course.

This is still a very raw and experimental idea, I acknowledge that detail and thus, I'm looking for feedback on this bold revolution; feel free to comment or drop me a message as needed!

Aside from the updates here on metallic-stains, "Today, I found myself.." will also be live on my twitter account (as seen to your right) so feel free to follow if desired.

Alright, that's about it for that little concept. Be sure to check back often for other insights and editorials.

Check back soon and till then!

*The author and owner of metallic-stains reserves the right for the concept entitled "Today, I found myself.." and its respective creative credits. This is a new concept and thus plagiarism is strongly discouraged and and feedback and comments should be directed towards the appropriate personnel. Any resemblance existing concepts with similar objectives and functions is purely unintentional. Respect intellectual property, respect yourself.

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Packages of Happiness

A couple of significant events happened ever since I last posted here on metallic-stains.

For one, school has finally started after a long break (of 2 months) and year 2 is gradually set in motion. A new year often means new modules and with that, naturally new challenges surface, which interestingly, is much anticipated.

On a personal level, the pass week saw happiness in the air.

Packets of Significance.

I like it when events as such occur in my life, I mean don't you? Everyone strives to be happy and for the people around them to be happy as well, and I think family events are good examples of such happiness.

A smile can mean many things. The human expression is vast and often not as simple as it seems. We might smile to accommodate, or even to mask our true feelings so when do we know when we're truly happy in our lives?

Happiness is an underrated emotion.

From young, we've been bred to "be happy". The first emotive word which is taught to children is often the word "happy", ie. "I am happy". So much so that as we grow and develop as human beings, we avoid using "Happy" as it is simply too simple and over used.

We tend to look for more profound ways of expressing ourselves as we feel that the things we perceive are complicated and a simple word would not be able to convey its true essence.

But herein lies the question; whoever decreed that emotions and perceptions are to be complex?

Personally, I feel that emotions, though complex in nature, need not necessarily be expressed in a complicated fashion. Often, we find ourselves in a position where it becomes hard for us to express how we feel, so why not try something simple?

This is the reason why I like family events. What I see at these events isn't complex beyond human comprehension, nor is it rocket science; I see emotion being expressed freely and simply.

We often do not realize that simplicity at these events as we are often very much immersed in the atmosphere and the emotion of the event.

For me, happiness is an emotion I would like persist throughout my life. I mean if you had a nice happy way to live your life, why would you want to choose otherwise?

Happiness isn't hard to find; just look around you.

Anyone of significance, I believe, will be able to instill this simplistic emotion into you.

Dusk.

So yea, that's that I guess. After a short mini hiatus, I guess I finally found time to update this space, so watch out for more stuff to come.

Evidently, I've been preoccupied with day to day activities and more prominently, events and the such.

However, though updates may be very much restricted as per my schedule, feel free to check out some of the other social networking sites I've been on, to the right of this post (ie, facebook, Twitter, flickr).

On a side note, I think more people should start using twitter, and those who are using it, should update frequently. Just saying.

Twitter's pretty interesting and all so I urge you social networking junkies out there to go take a look and who knows, you might be twittering even more than I am!

In all, check back soon and till then.

*the pictures you see in this post belong to metallic-stains and its respective owner and any uncredited or uninformed use of materials or excerpts from the blog's content will be liable for further action. This sounds all serious and stuff.

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