Bits of Lost Posts: Original Gangster, Latent Lament, The Gribble, and Waiting or Wanting

Original Gangster
"And as the pressure builds up, as things start to go south, as everyone and everything seems stacked against you there's this moment. This moment where you realize you're in over your head. In that moment only two things can happen. You can lose your shit right then and there or you can pull it all together and do everything you can to just scrape by. In that moment life makes all the decisions for you. No more waiting, no more worrying, no more ways to prolong the inevitable. You either call it quits...or you survive."

Latent Lament
"I'm sick of pretending that just because I've never really been in love that I don't know what it is to be heartbroken. I get it. I really do. The ones you want never seem to want you. And the ones that want you, you never seem to want. But you never really get the one you want until you get the one you want. And that's only if you're lucky. Some of us? No luck at all. No...there's all sorts of heartbreak kid, don't make the mistake of thinking any one is any worse than all the rest."

The Gribble
"He's a mistake on top of an error on top of a fuck-up, and to make it worse rational thought has never been one of his strong points. That boy would slit you open and watch the shit pour out just as soon as look at you. No, you don't need to be afraid of me. You've just got to be afraid that I won't stop him when he comes for you."

Waiting or Wanting
"When I was a little kid I used to stand in the window and stare down the hill, waiting for my father to come and visit. I did it everyday, even when he hadn't said he was coming. My old man got out of work at 5:30 and I'd stand in front of that window from then until my mother made me come to the table for dinner. More days than not he didn't show, even when he promised he would. I remember that feeling. That waiting, that wanting. I remember it very clearly. And that's sort of what I'm feeling now...except I don't know what it is I want, and I already know that just waiting won't do any good at all."