A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this capacity to think autonomously for itself.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.
Time, you old gipsy man, Will you not stay, Put up your caravan Just for one day?
I did not pray Him to lay bare The mystery to me, Enough the rose was Heaven to smell, And His own face to see.
God loves an idle rainbow, no less than laboring seas.
Did anyone ever have a boring dream?
If men must beg to live, May the Creator also go wandering and perish.
Younger people tend to associate happiness more with excitement and the future, while older people tend to associate happiness with peacefulness in the present.
Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry
Before climbing the summits, you must first walk in the down valleys!