withered stone

I was scraped by metal spikes, pierced by a rusty nail, and even fell face first from a pick up truck.

I've been through rejections and countless regrets and had my heart torn by the earthly passing of people I loved.

Though the world presented itself sugarcoated, still I surrounded myself with safetynets and restrictions.

As I journey life, I've been cynical and numb and perhaps became the rock that they all perceived me to be.

But at the end of the day, I still couldn't see, how I can be hurting - feeling this piercing pain that with all medication failed to numb thee.

twinstar

Twinstars are found at your darkest hour. Times when you're at your lowest. That's how you get a glimpsed of the sparkle that at other times, you have left unnoticed.
This is what I realized just last night. It's not that last night was incredibly devastating, rather, it was simply... incredible.
I'm not making sense am I?
Good.
Twinstars are said to be a pair of soul that are meant to collide through the course of life (or lives for that matter). These are two entities that was once ONE. In that regard, they can't help but be drawn to each other no matter what dimension or level they are in or what generation they might have sprung out of. The most common misconception is that twinstars or most commonly known as twinsouls end up with each other as husbands & wives.
In reality (or perhaps reality for just those who believes it to be), twinstars can be just about anyone - parent, child, friend, mentor, or a stranger who you happen to brush upon - who at some point, touched your soul.
In one lifetime, you don't always end up with each other. That's why your journey continues - developing, each stepping up the ladder (though sometimes not at the same time) and inevitably fusing to make whole the once separated soul.
Going back to the statement that twinstars are found in one's darkest hour, I think one may not immediately notice that you were just inches away from your other half but you just know that something is different. That, borrowing from 'the alchemist', the universe is working for you to achieve your personal legend. And what bigger goal can you have topping the one that will make you whole again? Too bad that from the busy buzz of life, we may not even get an inkling before the minute that you two were separated again.
In my childhood of 3 or 4, I thought my twinstar was in a dimension higher than mine - the one that only I can see and my mother only sense that I see. But now I realize, maybe s/he may not be that far after all - not another world as I believed but just another generation under the same sky where I live.