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Arms out like an Airplane

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By: FictionFriction (see more of FictionFriction's blogs)

A momentous sentence fenced in the playground, proud with glittered vanity spilt in the sand. The lethargic screams of children building skyscrapers that eventually rape the stars. I remember that warm day in December when I sat on the sidewalk and watched the rest of the kids play. I decided to stand there, 3 and a half feet tall, spread my arms out, and imagine myself 3 feet taller; flying above the world. Well the time is now, and when I stare at the ground three feet taller, I feel even smaller. I try to defy gravity, but then again, there gos my sanity. I just don't understand the pointless pointing. Everywhere I go I see people smiling through the soaking of others sulking. Look at her legs, look at his face, look at the way she walks, Did you hear the way he talked? It is as if society is trapped inside the closing wall of insecurity. I wonder what kind of words are written on my back; although I do appreciate the fact that my vertabrate seems to be intact. Everybody I meet now I see this red dot in the middle of their eyes, and the redness refines to the outsides. All the problems in you somehow become the problems of me as I seek the frontiers of the indescribable world. I will just keep moving on letting these words flow through me and hope the seeds in my blue book begin to grow taller and taller, like that warm day in December on the playground where I stood alone with my arms out like an airplane.

Because when I was younger I imagined myself taller and more mature, and now that I am, I fantasize of being naive and little again.

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Wow, FictionFriction you have an amazing way of capturing what plagues a good majority of us, including me. I remember too when I was little wanting to be older. Wanting to be away from the childish taunts, gossip, and judgment.

With adulthood comes the similar insecurities that followed us around as children and as teens. However, those insecurities can seem so much more daunting -- maybe it is because we are often more aware. Who knows. I do know that words still sting. The need for validation from others is still just as important. But I digress...

I love your image of being an airplane soaring above it all. So let me ask you this, how can you become that airplane again, rising above it all?

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I find your writing intensely creative, poignant and real. Thanks for the first piece in BELIEVE that actually made me think. Your writing made the memory of what it was like to be a child wishing to be grown-up, so I could soar above it all- mean kids, my parents who didn't get it and all those rules. Only problem is, nowadays, there's too much air traffic up there and anyone can fly.

TJP

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Hope you like the corresponding image...

TJP

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Thankyou for the promoting and the compliments, One thousand thanks to you!

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