Have you ever had that feeling—that you’d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?

I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love.

In dreams begins responsiblities.

You end up exhausted and spent, but later, in retrospect, you realize what it all was for. The parts fall into place, and you can see the whole picture and finally understand the role each individual part plays. The dawn comes, the sky grows light, and the colors and shapes of the roofs of houses, which you could only glimpse vaguely before, come into focus.

pulled into my convenient neighborhood fast food restaurant. I ordered shrimp salad, onion rings, and a beer. The shrimp were straight out of the freezer, the onion rings soggy. Looking around the place, though, I failed to spot a single customer banging on a tray or complaining to a waitress. So I shut up and finished my food. Expect nothing, get nothing.

There's no war that will end all wars.

No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.