#691 Quit Pills

Some lady had told me I should start taking pills, and she convinced me. It was supposed to help with my anxiety, and I feel like it kinda did. So that was nice. It also made me a lot lazier, which was also pleasant, as I had just gotten into a song called Lazybones, and this allowed me to make a p...

#690 Rough Night

A ghost I met last night admitted to me their most devastating yet intimate story. You see, most stories are lucky to be devastating OR intimate. Often, that is what makes them fascinating—a reality I don't believe I have to elaborate on. But the ghost told me a more intimate AND devastating story...

#689 Wooden Statue

So I found myself in some apartment with a bunch of statues and paintings of a kind you wouldn't usually see. Art can be cool to observe, sometimes. But I needed to be in the mood, and there were 2 girls and an aged man, making it harder to get in that state of mind. Of course, I tried -- because ...

#688 Finger Meets Mouth

This one morning, I woke up to my girlfriend not lying beside me in our bed. This was (only) a little confusing; I had not remembered her going (back) to Brussels, but as she does often enough, I figured I was still rather sleepy. But the sun had called the morning, so it was time to get up -- when...

#687 Double booked

Nothing about this story, even this sentence, actually happened, and neither is realistic. If anything in it sounds plausible -- you might not be real either. So there's this couple who went on a trip to Ghent in Belgium, for which they had booked a hotel far in advance. They had to walk to the ho...

#686 A Live House

I have a couple of critical questions for you. Please don't move on until you've answered them to yourself. When was the last time you genuinely thanked someone? I don't do it often enough—it's nice to be appreciated. Well, you might've been able to answer that one, but when's the last time you g...

#685 The waitress

Have you ever woken up unable to hear, smell, talk, or see well? I'd be more surprised if you've never. But what is rare is waking up with only one of those working. I wouldn't be surprised if you don't believe me when I say that I woke up one day, and everyone I interacted with could only use one....

#684 Sint Jan

The Netherlands is a small country, which allows me to say that I live in a big city about the small city I live in. If I wanted to. In this big/small city, there's a famous ancient building called the Sint Jan. I've had memories of it for as long as I can remember. Because of my disinterest, I st...

#683 Weird Girl

I'm one of those people with weird parents; when people look at me, I feel them (annoyingly, correctly) assume so. But they're the good kind of weird, I promise. Their friends, the few they had, often turned out to be the bad kind. Many weird people are; the weirdness starts as fun, but when furthe...

#682 Stolen Ice Cream

There's this girl who keeps showing up at my apartment. I'm not sure how she does it, but she keeps convincing me to let her in; she practically lives here now. And some time ago, she convinced me to go to a theme park with her. Which might not sound crazy to you -- but I hate theme parks. Maybe h...

#681 Drunk lady

How often do you act like you're a good person? This painting is about a day I did twice, or at least as far as I can remember, which I probably would as I generally remember any time I do something good for somebody (because I'm not a good person.) The first good thing was picking up my girlfriend...

#680 Well dressed homeless

Waking up in a bed that isn't yours, for whatever reason, to me at least, is a little disorienting. Even if I've been doing it daily for what feels like my whole life, it never gets easier. Though, this morning, when I awoke, I felt something special. I'm not a spiritual person at all, but the brai...

#679 Learning to wait

Anticipating something good is often almost as pleasing as the thing itself. Add in uncertainties about whether you'll receive anything and what you'll receive, and you've got significant parts of most addictions described. But if the wait is too uncertain or prolonged, it can be one of the most ag...

#678 Lost in translation (2)

This painting is about a girl who, like most people, was born in a world where she didn't understand the people around her but slowly learned. Nothing is fascinating about that. It is very intriguing, actually, just not extraordinary at all. But then, one day, (not so) out of nowhere (after taking...

#677 Lost in translation (1)

While walking through the beautiful Den Bosch, I frequently wonder about all the genius ideas people that pass me by are having. They don't know me, so they'd never tell me, and if they did, there's a big chance I wouldn't get it. It's hard to explain interesting ideas sometimes. I knew this geni...

#676 Bruges Is Dead

What's the craziest thing you've ever done for someone close to you? I like to see myself as very rational. I've got emotions, of course, but I don't drastically act on them much. But when my girlfriend asked me to go on a small vacation to Bruges, I couldn't help but say yes. I know—very crazy stu...

#675 Disabling my lights

At some point in my life, I decided I liked drinking coffee. I don't remember when that happened, and there are many things like it. I also developed a hatred for ads at some point, perhaps because I don't particularly appreciate feeling like the easily manipulated sucker I am. But I know that the...

#674 Cutting an onion

I'm reasonably intelligent (the cleverest person I've ever been), so today, I'll grace you with a story about the most important lesson I learned. Here is how I learned why you should never sincerely try to help anyone with anything: My girlfriend told me she was a horrible cook -- she worked as ...

#673 Living in garbage

If you're at home right now, I want you to do something for me (if you aren't, you might try as well); look around you, and what do you see? I'm trying to understand if the stuff around you is useful. Or does it just sit there without any acknowledgment? Because of laziness or perceived meaning, if...

#672 Frustrated psychologist

Being in a, at worst near constant & and at best frequent, state of anxiety is just a hobby of mine. But due to circumstances I'm too ashamed to admit, my family and girlfriend hosted an intervention, ugh, consistently ruining my fun. So, a while ago, I started going to therapy. I guess to learn h...

#671 To take a picture

For those who don't know, there's a small & magical city called Efteling in the Netherlands. It's mostly for children -- when you get old enough, all that mystical stuff is much less endearing. So my girlfriend, who's slightly childish sometimes (and an alien, so unfamiliar with the city,) wanted t...

#670 Ja!

Some people are born wise, and you're probably not one of them. Though maybe, if you're lucky, you've met or even known someone who was. These kinds of people seem to come out of the womb with knowledge from outside, which is easy to understand but hard to figure out while being more truthful than...

#669 It's okay sweetie

Normal people are scary for the same reasons monsters are: because they don't exist. When someone is strange, it will feel like at least you know what's wrong with them, instead of the fake normal ones for whom you'll have to figure it out. Anyway, these scary people like going on vacations, yuck. ...

#668 Far from home

This Thai lady is lying on my couch -- don't worry about how she got there; it's a story I'll reveal some other time. I had told her she would look great as a painting, which she struggled to believe, only making her more beautiful. She allowed me to sketch her anyway, and because I didn't know w...

#667 From the floor

Somehow, this girl found her way into my museum. She won't leave, and I frankly don't want her to. (I do know how she got in; I let her. But still, it's surprising she's here. In the same way, it feels weird when you switch a job or something.) Because of me, we fell on the floor while we were pla...