Author Archives: ExploreFTTS

I come into this all wet and cold. While I am surrounded by so many others, I still come into this with a sense of loneliness. I’m not even sure what this emotion is, or what most emotions are, but even still I feel the loneliness. The longing for something more, for someone more…does thatContinue reading “Story #12 “Emotions””

Flutter flutter as you go by, flutter flutter you’re always catching my eye, flutter flutter do I provide all that you need, flutter flutter you are that to me! Your simplicity is your beauty. How delicate you are. Your grace of movement doesn’t quite seem possible, but every year you do it again. Taking meContinue reading “Story #11 “Emotions””

How innate it is. You know nothing of the world, yet you know this. It’s simple for you, like breathing. No one taught you how to breathe. You’ll have to be taught how to tie your shoes, but this, this is just like breathing for you. Your days are not filled with business or bustleContinue reading “Story #10 “Emotions””

Why? Everyone always asks this, right? Why are we here? What are we doing? Is there some reason for this, or is this all for nothing? Some say this isn’t it, that there is a whole other life after this one we have here and now. What would that be for though? Life has aContinue reading “Story #9 “Emotions””

What’s beautiful to you? “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” so we’ve been told. Can beauty ever be objective, or is all beauty subjective? I find beauty in a forest, not necessarily because of certain colors, or plants, or smells, or views. I find a forest beautiful, because it is all those thingsContinue reading “Story #8 “Emotions””

Our groups passed and all were having fun. Smiles bountiful and laughter endless. I was enjoying myself because of all that was around me. The trees, the breeze, the cool mountain air in my lungs, the sun creeping onto me through any little crack it could sneak through in the branches. The freedom felt inContinue reading “Story #7 “Emotions””

You act like it’s all for you, like it was created with no one else in mind. You go about with an air that no one else even exists, that he doesn’t exist, or they don’t, or that I don’t exist! Right here! Right next to you…I don’t exist? I’m right here!! you made eyeContinue reading “Story #6 “Emotions””

At first we all were excited, we all could not wait to try it, to see it, to experience it… This was the future! Here, right in front of everyone, we had it, we controlled it, and it was glory!! We dreamt of what we’d be able to do with it, what it would becomeContinue reading “Story #5 “Emotions””

The threat always exists, ever present. The question in the back of your head. Will it come today, or tomorrow, will I evade it for my lifetime? Will I know someone today that will have to see it through, or will everyone that I know and love be able to escape it? Will my existenceContinue reading “Story #4 “Emotions””

He’s there on the first sunny day of spring, reflecting the brightness of the day in the radiating joy exuding from his body. He’s ready for the warming temperatures, thawing out his bones from a cold, unforgiving winter. Although the warmer temperatures are still not THAT warm, he’s got commitment in his attire. The shorts,Continue reading “Story #3 “Emotions””