I don't want to live a metaphor, I wanna live a life, but I keep writing about life, when I should be writing metaphors.
I'm not great at metaphors.
I lack conviction.
That's the big difference between metaphor and simile.
A simile is softened and non committal.
"It's like this" is the literary equivalent of "I'm happy being whatever you need me to be."
A metaphor is unapologetic. A metaphor is declarative.
A metaphor is me making breakfast when you ask what I want.
I dunno. Here's some porridge you didn't ask for.
... admittedly, not a great example of a metaphor.
But that is why I have a hard time making.
Me having a hard time spelling commitment, may be a metaphor, but I'm unsure.
I'm okay being unsure, but what if I choke up when I am sure, and can't be decisive. Just because of habit?
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