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    Sam had told me once that he chose Alistair to be his soul mate. I have never really understood, and still do not understand how one can choose a soul mate. I certainly did not choose Sam – it just sort of happened. We are but slaves to our minds. We are often tricked into believing that the whims of our minds are but our own desires. Though the illusion shatters when we discover that we cannot wish away, despite committing all will, certain urges of the mind. Attempt to choose the people with
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    The culprit won't be explicitly revealed until almost the end, but it won't be that hard to guess.
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    Does it remind you of ouran highschool? I was trying to think which anime had a similar setting and that was the only one that came to mind. Haha.
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    If you truly love someone, you'd want him to be happy, no matter whom he is with. If you cannot seem to be happy for him, then it has to follow that you do not truly love him; and hence should be letting him go regardless. Hence, when it comes to the matters of true love, there really isn't a reason why one should hold on to something that does not belong to one. Though such wisdom is easier said, than done. * * * "The bat has your finger prints on it," uttered the stout LAPD officer who was
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    Be yourself – another common advice often given by those who lack wisdom at the expense of the subjects. We have the ability to act differently in different scenarios and adapt to different circumstances. Such adaptation often provides us an advantage in the different environments. However, such adaptation also come at a cost – it can sometimes be strenuous to adapt certain behaviour depending on one's predisposition. It might be inherently harder for someone who is predisposed to behave in a fe
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    In today's world, there are some who still believe that homosexuality is a perversion, a mental disorder and unequivocally unnatural. Though as time passes, more and more are willing to embrace such a lifestyle into common society. In the history of civilization, society has also been less receptive, compared to recent times, to women in leadership roles, inter-racial marriage, etc etc. Today we laugh at those condemning homosexuality – believing that the future would ridicule them as we ridicul
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    Moral righteousness seems to be a very common tool which the human mind uses to appreciate one's value while depreciating another's. We are very prone to thinking ourselves right, while others wrong. They are selfish, shallow, greedy, materialistic, self-absorbed, evil, stupid, ignorant, arrogant – such are among the labels that we assign to individuals whom we deprecate. It is done, most often to make us feel better about ourselves, for while they represent the immoral labels listed above, we d
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    Do not be deceived by the illusion of grandeur for all acts are by definition selfish. All acts benefit the self – acts of love first benefit the self by providing the pleasure and the heart-warming feeling of giving to objects of one's affection, any benefits to those objects are but secondary. In fact, only those who acknowledge the aforementioned notion can be truly humble amidst their acts of kindness – they are less likely to bask in praises for being kind, less likely to condemn others' se
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    Stripped of his childhood, Sam, along with the progeny of moguls and tycoons of the world, had transformed Richmoore Institute from a private boarding school into a battlefield of political intrigue. Although he had preferred to manoeuvre on the sidelines, Sam was unwittingly thrown into the centre of the arena when he was forced to choose between Alistair, the ragged yet devilishly handsome knight and Shawn, the irresistibly seductive Prince Charming.
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    One of the many methods to increase one's worth is to decrease another's. Some applications of such method are vehemently denounced by society, such as when a particular ethnicity claim superiority over another, or when the rich and educated condescend on the less fortunate. However, some other applications are less frowned upon – some even encouraged – by society, such as when certain Democrats think of certain Republicans as being ignorant, stupid or evil, or when certain religions disparaging
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    Perhaps the highest form of romance entails not of two complete individuals coming together, but of two who would be completely, utterly and unequivocally broken without the other. Shawn had everything everybody else wanted, but struggled to attain the one thing that would potentially make him happy. Sam wanted nothing of what everybody else wanted, and as such had struggled to resist the one thing that might make him happy. [Part of 'Tales of Love, Tales of Woe' short story collection]
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    The reverberating sound of a teenage boy being slammed against the locker elicited a mental cringe within Shawn. The commotion took place not ten foot before his eyes – whereby Alex was pinning the victim, who only measured five foot seven in height and barely half a door frame's width in girth, against the locker, while one of Alex's goons was tearing up the boy's assignments for the day. “Sam...” Shawn whispered, too silent for any human ear. “You pathetic wimp,” Alex sneered in Sam's face.
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    A straight guy does not fall in love with a gay one. A healthy romantic relationship cannot be without sex. These are amongst the socially imposed notions of sex and sexuality that Shawn had to wade through in order to sort out his feelings for Sam, his gay best friend.[Part of 'Tales of Love, Tales of Woe' short story collection]
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    The honest truth was that I, Shawn Nathaniel McGuire, have never been depressed for the last eighteen years of my life. Hence it was not surprising that I was the centre of attention during another typical McGuire merry-family dinner on a Wednesday night after having displayed, for the last two weeks, demeanour classically rendered as symptoms of what society has been accustomed to label as 'depression'. Before the age of eleven, I was so shielded with the insouciance of childhood to even have a
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    "What do you want from me?" Bellowed Sam lest his words be muffled by the storm. "How can they all be wrong? How can it possibly work between us?" "I know we are from worlds apart; I know we have few similarities and even fewer common interests,” said Shawn solemnly as he closed the distance between him and Sam on a deserted street of London amidst a torrential summer storm. He pierced deeply into Sam's deep brown eyes partly hidden behind layers of soaked dark brown fringe while fir
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    Sharing no common interest or having utterly disparate lifestyles did not stop them from falling in love. However the grand challenge for Sam and Shawn was never about discovering their love for each other but on learning how to remain together. Can a tinge of chemistry more than make up for the complete lack of compatibility? [Part of 'Tales of Love, Tales of Woe' short story collection]
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    Practical Love

    bryan90 posted new chapter in Practical Love

    I stood an arm's length from him, scrutinising his calm countenance – from his hazel eyes that pierced through a pair of chic black frames; to his chiselled cheeks that was still coated with a thin layer of youthful blush even at the age of twenty five. I was searching for a tinge of dismay or melancholy within it, but all I found was composure with perhaps a slight hint of resignation. “Sam...” I broke the silence between us. “Hmm?” He responded, without so much taking his atten
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    Practical Love

    bryan90 posted a story in Fiction

    What is Shawn to do when the man that he had loved since the beginning of his life was the man that he could not express his love for? What is Sam to feel when he stood behind the love of his life as the bestman instead of before, in his rightful place, as the groom? What are they to do when the love they share simply isn't practical because they are brothers? [Part of 'Tales of Love, Tales of Woe' short story collection]
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