Unending Love

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times,
in life after life, in age after age forever.
My spell-bound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs
that you take as your gift, wear round your neck in your many forms
in life after life, in age after age forever.

Whenever I hear old chronicles of love, its age-old pain,
its ancient tale of being apart or together,
as I stare on and on into the past, in the end you emerge
clad in the light of a pole-star piercing the darkness of time:
you become an image of what is remembered forever.

You and I have floated here on the stream that brings from the fount
at the heart of time love of one for another.
We have played alongside millions of lovers, shared in the same
shy sweetness of meeting, the same distressful tears of farewell--
old love, but in shapes that renew and renew forever.

Today it is heaped at your feet, it has found its end in you,
the love of all man's days both past and forever:
universal joy, universal sorrow, universal life,
the memories of all loves merging with this one love of ours--
and the songs of every poet past and forever.

-- Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)

The Smell of Old World Romance

The pharmacy store nearby finally got around to restocking my Holy Grail cologne! I've missed it. Been years since I've dabbed this on and was seriously thinking of ordering a couple of bottles through Amazon. Also, I seem to have come at a serendipitous time; there was a curious problem with the barcodes and they let me buy the bigger bottle for the price of the smaller one. My day... consider it made. ♥♥♥

On an unrelated note, I just realized that this month's post volume is less than a quarter of last month's. Can I blame Twitter? (Follow me, if you're so inclined.)

ラブ

いけない恋と　わかっていても
そっと　ダイヤルまわしていた
小さな胸の　ときめきを
おさえきれなく　なったとき
愛してると　いってたの
時計よ　おねがい
とまっていてね

わたしの心に　も一度たずねた
だけど　やっぱり　かわらないの
あのひとの　そばにいるだけで
わたしは　とってもしあわせなの
愛してると　いってたの
時計よ　おねがい
とまっていてね

（岩田純子　詞／曲）

Have We Met Before?

And half of November passed me by just like that. It has been unusually warm for the past several days despite the approaching Christmas season. I spent most of my birthday month procrastinating, lolling about on other people's turfs and semi-secretly rereading pretentiously philosophical stuff even if I still have mountains of mandatory readings that need to be done before this year ends. Typical.

On an unrelated note, I got this message on my old Tumblr:

Not only do I like your blog (haha I found it) but I also am OBSESSED with you secretly. Ok here we go.. I got this idea from a Tumblr spam I got once lol.. I think you like me too and you were always too shy to admit it :3 go to crushmatches(dót)com (wtf it wont let me link regular) and make an account there. Then look up the profile 'gottagetme19' (me obviously) I left body pictures.. if you can guess who I am hit me up and we'll hang soon. You need a C C but its free

...At least I'm loved by spam?

Also, I finally changed my blog name to a weeabooish one. Maybe it could serve as a reminder that this blog should live up to its purpose as a Nihongo-learning blog?

And why is tonight marked by an excess of question marks?

Happiness on the Horizon

From the Legacy of the Divine Tarot

Got this right on the eve of my birthday. It's amazing how this particular card, out of all possible cards in the deck, has so many messages pertinent to my current situation. I feel like this is the Universe's way of telling me to shake off emotional baggage and that it's time to forge good dreams into reality.

Thank you.