{"id":12487,"date":"2025-06-22T09:57:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T16:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/?p=12487"},"modified":"2025-06-22T09:57:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T16:57:53","slug":"hows-your-dead-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/?p=12487","title":{"rendered":"How&#8217;s Your Dead Game?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The point is it wasn&#8217;t them. It was the way you felt when you were with them. You don&#8217;t miss the person, with all of their hurt and pain. Rather, you merely miss the way you felt, when you weren&#8217;t hurting and in pain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Life is a crafty quicksilver bitch that slips through my fingers. Shiny and bright at first, to only fade into a cold empty dark abyss; shattered and scattered, smeared across lives. Waking up once again, naked and alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why does love dissolve before dawn? Love that&#8217;s now just a memory, etched in a night a long time ago. A failed love story, with scars and pain to mark the heartache that remains. A distant story, a silent testament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trying to find love&#8217;s refrain in every kiss, in every morning. Letting go, opening up, believing in new beginnings. No more shadows shackling me. No more being restrained by pain and fear. Trust the gentle steady flow.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0AA3C45B-3775-4985-B7FA-D170B697FD51.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0AA3C45B-3775-4985-B7FA-D170B697FD51.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0AA3C45B-3775-4985-B7FA-D170B697FD51-200x300.jpeg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/theyway.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Led Zeppelin; &#8216;That&#8217;s The Way&#8217;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Some things are so simple they&#8217;re hard. Like writing another love story, another tale of boy meets girl. A girl with dreams beyond a boy&#8217;s reach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I should write a retrospect. A short story about a boy breaking the chains of unrequited love. Let the boy win for once; to be happy, to be fulfilled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I love a first kiss. That fleeting moment when time effortlessly stands still; when delicate lips touch for the first time; when worlds dissolve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some memories are eternal, never to be forgotten. Like a first kiss, or that warm penetrating feeling of falling in love. To be held, to be safe.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"401\" src=\"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/unnamed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/unnamed.jpg 512w, https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/unnamed-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/akiss.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Louis Armstrong; &#8216;A Kiss To Build A Dream On&#8217;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The point is it wasn&#8217;t them. It was the way you felt when you were with them. You don&#8217;t miss the person, with all of their hurt and pain. Rather, you merely miss the way you felt, when you weren&#8217;t hurting and in pain. Life is a crafty quicksilver bitch that slips through my fingers. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/?p=12487\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How&#8217;s Your Dead Game?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2858,27,475,16,19,2552,2857],"class_list":["post-12487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-a-kiss-to-build-a-dream-on","tag-led-zeppelin","tag-louis-armstrong","tag-neuroticattorney","tag-neuroticattorney-com","tag-ramblings","tag-thats-the-way"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12487"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12503,"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12487\/revisions\/12503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}