I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I'm doing.
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I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I'm doing.
Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.
I’m free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can’t really understand what it means. All I know is I’m totally alone. All alone in an unfamiliar place, like some solitary explorer who’s lost his compass and his map. Is this what it means to be free? I don’t know, and I give up thinking about it.
I tried out the unfamiliar syllables. They fit. They cracked in my ears like a fist through ice.
Sometimes I talk to myself in languages I'm unfamiliar with... just to screw with my subconscious.
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