Why Would I Write

  • That Darn Cat

    He sat and waited in his car, but she didn’t show up. Her car was home but she was nowhere to be found. There was no answer when he called her phone, he thought to himself, ‘she must be busy’. He waited for another five minutes before he left. He had everything he wanted to tell her all planned out and rehearsed in his head. ‘I guess I’ll try again another day.’ He felt his heart sinking and fought back tears as he drove home.

    Oh man, he’ll be so disappointed
    hope he doesn’t think I avoided
    him on purpose! I can’t believe that
    I’m stuck in this car ‘cos of my cat.

    I fell in trying to get him out
    of my trunk, clunk! was what I heard
    before I blacked out – my vision was blurred

    I passed out and I lost track of time
    Before I woke and started to yell
    Get me out before I lose my mind!
    I didn’t want to die, can’t you tell?

    Sure enough, I heard his car pull up
    It idled for a while then he gave up
    Guess he’ll never know what happened
    I found myself fading

    Writing Prompt from Reddit: Write two sides to the same story, one in Verse, one in Prose.

  • The Sunk Cost Fallacy is real

    The Sunk Cost Fallacy – I know it’s nothing special, everybody experiences it, but it was only recently I discovered its name. It’s basically a name for when you keep doing something you don’t have to or shouldn’t do because you are already invested in it.

    Anyway, I noticed that it’s something I’ve been going through a lot recently. I spent a lot of money on games on Steam – and even though they were cheap (I only ever buy games on discount or in bundles), I felt the need to complete them because I had already spent money to buy them. However, not all these games are good and when I play bad games, I end up wasting my time (which could be spent playing Dota 2 instead kek). While this doesn’t happen all the time, I do finish some of these bad games, which is often a mistake. I don’t get my money back when I play them, so I have literally no reason to play a game to completion if I don’t have fun doing it.

    Now I’m not saying it’s a good thing to waste money, but all this could have been avoided by being careful with my money in the first place. I’ve learnt to cut off a lot of things in life due to the limited amount of free time I have. Life’s too short to waste – so make sure you do what makes you happy.

  • Driving Forty Five To See Fireworks On New Year’s Day

    Isn’t it funny how music connects people? When two people enjoy music by the same band, they somehow forge a connection and have something new to talk about. For me, Ellegarden was one of those bands. Back then, I was dismissive of Japanese music – choosing not to listen to it because I didn’t understand Japanese lyrics. I couldn’t appreciate instrumental music or just melodies back then, the songs I listened to needed to have words in them. So I was surprised when I put on “New Year’s Day” after the recommendation of a friend.
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