I am here to tell you a story. This is the story of what is going through my mind. Listen carefully, because it will help you understand just what it is that makes me who I am.

I am going to tell you what songs make me think of. I am going to tell you where I get my ideas from. I am going to tell you the questions that run through my head each night as I struggle to lose myself in sleep.

I am going to tell you what I have done in the past that causes people to know me as they do. I am going to tell you what has been done to me that has made me so distrustful.

I am going to tell you what makes me tick, in short. I am going to tell you about myself, perhaps tell you more than I really know. This may take us in strange directions, perhaps. And maybe it will tell me things about myself that I never knew.

Listen carefully, because it will help you understand just what it is that makes me who I am.

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The story of me ... as you've never heard it before.

It's strange, really. It's like a diary, where I write down what I'm thinking. But sometimes it's not: sometimes this is a place for me to practice my writing skills. Other times it's a place to share a conversation I've had.

And the rest of the time it's a place to make myself write when I feel I haven't written enough recently.

updated Feb 7 '10 by delorfinde