Author: Matthew Trevino | Categories: Creative Writing | Date: June 15, 2009
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“I look back at everything that I’ve witnessed, everything that I’ve learned, and everything that has happened, and I want to be able to think that it was all worth something. That it was all meaningful in such a way that was significant in some aspect.

I want to be able to think that the people that I’ve met and the things that I’ve imparted to them in some way changed their life. Whether it was good or bad. Whether it was unique or old-hat. I want to be able to think that I had some sort of impact on their lives, no matter how minuscule.

I need to believe that.”   (What you never knew)

As much as I’d really like to believe the above statement, part of me knows that the way I’ve touched others lives is in such a horrible way, it probably wouldn’t be such a bad thing if they forgot I had ever existed at all.  We all live our lives with some dim hope that maybe we’re making a difference when in reality maybe we should be hoping that the people we meet just completely forget about us.

Maybe that wouldn’t be such a thing.

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