''Night is the other half of life, and the better half.''
-GOETHE, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
Do you think so?
What is it about the night that brings out all that is hidden in people? How come I always do most of my writing work at night? Like right now. It's creepy at times. Night is funny, you know? It's a time when you drown yourself into tears, ice-creams, hot chocolate and music. It can make you shiver and sweat at the same time. It's as if, as soon as the sun sets down, it takes away all the distraction from one's mind. Even with a perfect sight, I would say, night is a time when people go blind, in a way. They stop seeing what's around them, eventually falling in the hands of their own serenity. It's a time they feel free of every thought in their mind, or feel free to every thought in their mind.
I, personally, know a lot of people who have a change of attitude at night.
Some go clueless about what they speak at night. They remember absolutely nothing of whatever they mentioned at night. And that is when they are not even high!
Some abduct themselves from the crowd and face their deepest fears and get nostalgic.
Some sleep at night ONLY because they don't want to meet what they are running away from.
Some feel inspired and go lunatic, make the wrong decisions and regret them later.
But night is simply weird. It has innumerable feelings to it. Feeling of the dead, and feeling of the alive. Feeling of giving in or giving up. Remembrance of lost love, remembering all those who walked away. It is the mother of thoughts.
But you can't give in to the night, till you know what is waiting there for you. In other words, no one can stay awake when the world sleeps unless they know who's going to conquer. Isn't that why a baby sleeps at night? Because he is yet to discover the mystery.
''You can't stand up to the night until you understand what's hiding in its shadows.''
-CHARLES DE LINT, The Onion Girl
-GOETHE, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
Do you think so?
What is it about the night that brings out all that is hidden in people? How come I always do most of my writing work at night? Like right now. It's creepy at times. Night is funny, you know? It's a time when you drown yourself into tears, ice-creams, hot chocolate and music. It can make you shiver and sweat at the same time. It's as if, as soon as the sun sets down, it takes away all the distraction from one's mind. Even with a perfect sight, I would say, night is a time when people go blind, in a way. They stop seeing what's around them, eventually falling in the hands of their own serenity. It's a time they feel free of every thought in their mind, or feel free to every thought in their mind.
I, personally, know a lot of people who have a change of attitude at night.
Some go clueless about what they speak at night. They remember absolutely nothing of whatever they mentioned at night. And that is when they are not even high!
Some abduct themselves from the crowd and face their deepest fears and get nostalgic.
Some sleep at night ONLY because they don't want to meet what they are running away from.
Some feel inspired and go lunatic, make the wrong decisions and regret them later.
But night is simply weird. It has innumerable feelings to it. Feeling of the dead, and feeling of the alive. Feeling of giving in or giving up. Remembrance of lost love, remembering all those who walked away. It is the mother of thoughts.
But you can't give in to the night, till you know what is waiting there for you. In other words, no one can stay awake when the world sleeps unless they know who's going to conquer. Isn't that why a baby sleeps at night? Because he is yet to discover the mystery.
''You can't stand up to the night until you understand what's hiding in its shadows.''
-CHARLES DE LINT, The Onion Girl
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