Snapshots 2: Excerpts

photo from Juganue's DeviantArt

verse: 'It's Time' by Imagine Dragons

Snapshot 1: It's Time

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I glance at the clock, "One more hour...".

My heart is beating faster than usual.

I feel nervous. Anxious. But the good kind.

I can hear noises outside my room: 

people chatting and laughing, furniture moving,

and sometimes my mother's voice asking the person in charge if everything is in order.

I am in my room, sitting at the edge of my bed. I take a look around. 

The room is probably the nicest it has ever been. 

There is a bouquet of flowers on the side table next to the bed.

My best friend is talking about something, but I am not sure what. 

I am too distracted.

My sister comes into the room,

"Are you okay?"

"Yes" I smile.

"I have to help Mak outside for a bit, I'll be back to check up on

you soon okay"

A few more people come into the room after that,

"Are you nervous?"

"Congratulations!"

"You look beautiful!"

Then, my father comes in and I know what it means.

He looks at me and smiles, kisses me on the forehead and says,

"It's time"

I take his hand and we walk out of the room...

- Rasyiqah Anuar

Hello!

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Hello

Welcome to Snapshots: Little 'Alternate You' Stories. You might be wondering the whole point of this, yet another, new blog site.

Well, I was talking to a good friend about how sometimes we dream/fantasize/imagine glimpses into the future with our loved ones, and how we create this picture in our head as something we aspire to.

You know what I'm talking about; that 'tomorrow' you always wish, pray and hope will happen. And  maybe even those memories from days gone by that you fondly relive at every chance you get.

So my friend and I named these moments 'Snapshots', because that's exactly what they are, right? They're not complete stories or moments. Sometimes the beginnings of it is lost, or the endings to them are not really remembered, but there are those special moments in between, whether real or imagined, that keep on playing inside your minds...

... and they bring smiles to your faces. Just as they'd bring smiles to mine.

So this site is really pretty much in the spirit of 'Talking With An Alternate You': Small, contained stories about the lovely moments we have with the people we love the most.

And I'd love it if you'd want to contribute these 'Snapshots'! They can be anything; happy or sad, bittersweet or spectacular, as long as they're 'snapshots'.

E-mail me, anonymously if you'd like, with 'Snapshots' of your own. I'll publish them on your behalf so maybe, just maybe, we can share that little glimpse of happiness with others. Maybe we can bring smiles to people to with little stories to inspire, to instil hope and faith with. They don't even have to be love stories (though I suspect a lot of them will be).

Because, to be honest, there's so much.. stress and anger nowadays, that maybe once in awhile it's okay to dream about lovelier things.

So how about it? If you think this is a pretty okay idea (fingers crossed!), start sending them Snapshots in:

edwan.shaharir@gmail.com

:)