Sisterhood

Qualia - "The felt or phenomenal qualities associated with experiences, suchas the feeling of a pain, or the hearing of a sound, or the viewing of a colour.To know what it is like to have an experience is to know its qualia."

Remember when we were kids? When happiness was a text message away and we had the opposite sex all figured out? I remember when we spilled secrets on dog eared edges of textbooks, solved problems with prose and wore big sunglasses to hide red eyes (before Paris Hilton).

& now that we're older and 'wiser' we've realised that 'I love you' doesn't come with the gaurantee of forever and the opposite sex aren't just there for procreation (occassionally they've been known to hold and open things). We've realised we're the ones with the problems and that's not such a bad thing. We scrawl fears on lecture pads, hide bruises with foundation and try to laugh away whatever the vodka leaves behind.

But then there are those moments, when cliched silences and our histories collide. When empathy moves one step further and becomes a shared wound. It's in those twilight moments When we're watching the rest of the world that it all comes together.

We don't need Kesey's LSD for this.