Story archives - tag: "realization"

Just another day

You know your life is crazy when you're cleaning vomit out of piercing holes in a stranger's bathroom.

tags: alcohol poisoning realization party vomit [add]

2008-06-09 12:11:42 / Rating: 71.75 /

overrock

Only then did I realize how much I had when she told her daughter they lost everything in the fire.

tags: fire lost realization sadness [add]

2008-04-15 10:15:26 / Rating: 114 /

The Bowler Cap Fairy

I was so humiliated I didn't wear them for three years, because I found out that they were fashionable and made by starving foreign kids.

tags: shoes converse realization hippy [add]

2008-03-27 20:33:45 / Rating: 107.5 /

clocks and such

At approximately 1:30 pm on Friday February 1, 2008, I realized that when you get to college they expect you to wear watches.

tags: realization time life [add]

2008-03-12 17:47:17 / Rating: 158.5 /

Shadow

I was 14 when I grasped my fathers lifeless hand and realized I didn't hate him after all.

tags: death abuse love hate forgiveness realization [add]

2008-03-03 13:01:04 / Rating: 436.25 /

SJ

I told my husband I wanted a new, simple wedding band because the 1.3c diamond I wear is not a symbol of our love but of my greed.

tags: love sincerity greed honesty realization [add]

2008-02-13 13:09:31 / Rating: 878.25 /

jal

It wasn't until after we broke up that I knew I'd marry him someday.

tags: boyfriend breakup marriage realization [add]

2008-01-14 17:38:25 / Rating: 165.25 /

Juju

Unbeknownst to even myself, I found that yes, I would take money out of a wallet that I found lying on the open ground.

tags: realization morals deception [add]

2007-07-30 13:28:26 / Rating: 143.25 /

Complexity

My life has been a never-ending series of bad haircuts and parking tickets.

tags: realization life humor [add]

2007-06-11 16:15:28 / Rating: 195.75 /

anyone

As I stood in the eternal checkout line, the first 12 seconds of "Grease is the Word" skipping endlessly over the sound system, I realized the pretend boyfriend I was describing to the crazy bag lady was you.

tags: realization love [add]

2007-05-17 13:49:02 / Rating: 277.75 /

Holly

The one thing I thought I had enough of turned out to be my addiction.

tags: regret love realization [add]

2007-03-20 16:38:41 / Rating: 143 /

Dreamer

He was going to wipe the tear away, but his touch burnt me, especially after I told him my boyfriend hadn't done that for over a month.

tags: heartbreak realization old love [add]

2007-02-12 12:32:22 / Rating: 173 /

Not Meanspirited

As I sat on the couch in my boxer shorts, watching football and having nothing of import to do, I realized once and for all that I actually enjoy being single.

tags: single football realization [add]

2007-01-09 11:35:34 / Rating: 161.5 /

Duncan S

I seriously enjoyed being a clown, until I realized clowns aren't taken seriously.

tags: clowns realization [add]

2007-01-09 11:34:22 / Rating: 139.25 /

Peabodie

After serving liquor to alcoholics all day, I realised that I am, in fact, a bad person.

tags: realization alcohol work [add]

2006-12-05 14:32:37 / Rating: 235.25 /

J

I can't describe it, but it was the strangest feeling when I realized I was alone in a dermatologist's office reading Kurt Vonnegut's "Fates Worse Than Death."

tags: reading realization feelings strange [add]

2006-11-01 16:19:53 / Rating: 151.5 /

Mr.Benn

It was upon the waking with red knuckles and bruises... I realize, I'm addicted.

tags: fighting moshing pain realization ouch [add]

2006-10-02 16:32:52 / Rating: 173.5 /

Rei

I thought we had a connection, instead, I realized I loved my boyfriend after all.

tags: realization love [add]

2006-09-30 11:39:57 / Rating: 134 /

Splinket

My heart in my throat, I watched as that second blue line started to materialise before my eyes and I realised, this is it - the moment that would change everything I ever imagined the rest of my life to be.

tags: realization pregnancy anticipation love [add]

2006-09-27 10:02:32 / Rating: 178.25 /

Hypnos

It was as I stared down on the urban landscape unfolding before me that I realized, if the eye mirrors the soul, then cities are the eyes of humanity.

tags: city realization [add]

2006-09-26 22:42:55 / Rating: 130.25 /

Rob Sanderson

I sat there that night and realized that all my life I’ve been trying to eliminate the things that cause me to get depressed, instead of the depression itself.

tags: depression sad sadness realization change [add]

2006-09-14 07:14:25 / Rating: 350 /