Milen Yimer

Who inspires you most?

You touch the stone and suddenly fall through. The void consumes all your senses till up is down and down is left. Time no longer has any meaning. You could have been falling for years or for a few nanoseconds. When suddenly all you feel is the soft sand of the beach your family used to live on. It's one of the only things you allow yourself to remember about this place. Home until the day she... left. You look up and see what looks like a hallucination. As your eyes focus on the scene your body is filled with disbelief. There standing, clear as day, is a small version of you clutching onto your mother's hand. Together you stand as the waves repeatedly hit the two of you. Hearing your gasp your mom turns to look at you. The scene changes slightly. A haze overcomes you. You yell for your mother, to warn her of what happens 5 days after that day. Suddenly, you are falling through the abyss again. You land in front of the stone, this time with tears in your eyes and the answer to the question. "My mother. She...she's the one who inspires me most", you whisper to the distorted figure in the stone.

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What happens at 13 o’clock?

We don't talk about the 13th hour

13 o'clock is when silence has a kingdom

It is when children are taken to a land in the clouds

It is when only the brave and crazed keep awake

For the 13th hour is the first in its day

It yields the power for peace or chaos

The beginning of a new chapter in the book of life

Whispers soon fill the empty space

Words only meant for those who choose to stay

Faintly light lanterns scatter as the world settles

The mind is most active during this time

The emptiness all it needs to stretch and relax

For the 13th hour with all its darkness

Is a home for those who fear the light

As the clock strikes 13 o'clock

It's worshipers glance for merely a moment

Acknowledging the strange hour

Of with they are no stranger to

Yet as this hour passes they think

I will not be here tomorrow

What advice would you give your younger self?

There is a lot of advice I would give my younger self. So much that I want to correct, but....

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The only thing that I think will help with everything is if you realize you don't have to internalize everything. You are not alone.

I can't tell you how you realize this or when cuz I honestly don't know.But just know it comes easily and when you finally do let go you regain a part of yourself you thought you lost. Don't let that go again. I know how hard life can be at time, but the good and happy days make it the best.

Holding all that pain was never a good idea, I don't see how we ever thought that. Life can't be lived holding onto so much pain. It was just another way for us to be poisoned I guess.

I can tell you that life got bright after I realized what I was doing wrong. It felt lighter somehow.

Don't go back to that negative lifestyle. Stay with this healthy mentality and grow from it.