A.L. Ashkenaz

Tag: life

  • ISOLATION

    ISOLATION

    One of the strangest things about moving away is discovering how many or how few lives you have impacted in your brief years of being here. Sure I wasn’t expecting a dramatic last-minute confession of love or something, but a little acknowledgment of my departure would’ve been appreciated. But I suppose I can hold only…

  • Not-so-Free-Speech

    “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”  -Evelyn Beatrice Hall I recently re-read the old classic “Animal Farm” by George Orwell. The first time I read it was when I was in fourth grade. Back then my childlike mind couldn’t spell “political assassinations”, let…

  • A Grand Rebirth

    Have you ever had that hollow sensation? That acute sense of apathy? That calm realisation that nothing bothers you anymore? An asteroid could collide into the planet in the next five minutes and the most emotion you would show would be a strong “meh”. Literally anything could happen, but you just don’t care. For you…