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Actually, not weird. I haven't read the news for a few years because I got upset easily. So I relied on others to inform me major things.

I still have my 20L water. Gonna stock 1 more if things go down.

The weird thing is I heard about this flood just yesterday from a junior high friend in my hometown. They informed me there was a flood where I am living.

My cleaning lady said water has been out for 2 days now. And I just went buy 7 eggs (they had 7 left) with some leftover veggies. Please restock everything!

Gonna wash my hair right now!

Now, what if I really want to be vague because that's the only way to describe my feelings, for my love is surreal and abstract?

First, you describe your feeling: “I love the way he carries his sadness”.

Then you explain it with an example in great detail of how his trait shows up in reality.

That way, the purpose of your writing is communication. You tell someone your story because you want to share how you feel and what happened. And that’s authenticity.

As opposed to being vague all the time with “I'm 14 and this is deep” vibe, where the purpose is to tell people that you are more sophisticated than the normies. Which is narcissism.

But, you also have another option.

What you wanted is to say the same thing, “I love the way he carries his sadness”.

Then you go about your daily life. You do something else. You talk about other people. You forget about it.

Then, after several chapters if it is a novel, or after several paragraphs if it’s a long essay, you describe that same story in great detail that matches with a separate incident right paragraph above, not just out of nowhere. You don’t mention the sadness at all. You don’t describe his emotion. And the reader think “Yes, he is sad”, I can see it right here, not just her.

That way, your purpose is to relate to others. It started with an impression, an intuition with no evidence. And then the evidence unfolded itself unexpectedly, like how it happens in real life.

A few days late to this drama.

But I would like to point out that this is how superficial people describe their love. Notice on how they are super vague and out of the ordinary. If thet get rejected, it would be a cosmic tragedy like twin flame instead of a personal loss. Which actually doesn't threaten their ego as much as getting rejected by someone moody with blue eyes and terrible opinions on science.

How about “I like your sad eyes” or “I like your patience”?

No, it’s “She loved that “the sight of something as trivial as a rose” could move him to tears”.

What does it even mean? Does he like beauty to cry? Does he like art or nature? Is he sentimental? Was he thinking about something else when he was looking at the rose? You never know. So you can't judge her preferences.

What about his “particular complications and particular darkness.”?

Was he depressed? Or did he hide someone in the basement? You never know! She said it “particular” as if he is not generic but then refused to explain further, so how are you gonna argue with that? Well he is definitely “so deep” and you just have to take her words for that! She probably doesn't know why either!

There is a river right in front of my house. So we rarely had floods come in. But one time the water rose 20cm to our doorstep. You wouldn't want to walk too far because you didn’t know when you stepped from the street and the yard and fell into the river. But the real nightmare was when we walked to my grandparents’ house and passed by a neighbor with a pigsty that had its pig door with no cover facing the road.

I woke up early today. I hope the weather gets better so people can go to work. I feel more confident when I'm the only one to get to stay at home.

Update: No restaurants opened today because they couldn't get ingredients due to the flood.

Want to go eat bún chả but the rain is too heavy.