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Is it all right or even sane to be sad over losses not yet incurred? Over things still, as yet, securely in my grasp -- is it strange to be mourning the future, like a child sobbing over the far-off day of her peaceful death?

I want.

That's my trouble right now.

The sun is shining, but I've caught the scent of the storm, and I want more time! The reservoir is full, but I can taste the dust, the grit of drought ahead, I can feel the way I will be: aching, empty, too parched to even shed tears... perhaps that's why I feel I have to shed them now, because someone should. Perhaps it's nothing more than the fact that there's a price that will have to be paid and I may as well begin.

My skin is too tight, today. I'd like to slip out of it for awhile, to put my arms around the world and absorb it, just the way it is in this instant. So that I can hope to find my way back, when it changes.

Date: 2003-01-07 09:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ly2me.livejournal.com
If what you describe is insane, then I'm sure we all, at one time or another, share in the insanity.

Date: 2003-01-07 01:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] powerpynt.livejournal.com
If fortune telling is insanity, and sanity is measured by "normalcy", which it is to a large degree, we are all insane. I don't know anyone that doesn't allow the sadness of a future not yet created to creep into their hearts on occassion. But I do know that while it's easier said than done to stop worry, a moment's twitching about tomorrow is a totally wasted moment no matter how sure you are of it's outcome.

You 'could' slip in the shower an hour from now and die from the impact, and those seconds you spent going over and over what has not yet been will be marked as time you could have spent hugging your kids or eating Ben and Jerrys.

Now if you're like Linda, you'll read what I just said as adding more worry to an already worrisome life because she'd see the "slip in the shower and die" in bold, and the rest in italics.

Let's hope you're more like me, perish the thought:p

Date: 2003-01-07 03:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] powerpynt.livejournal.com
Me too hon. Just babbling.

Date: 2003-01-08 12:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dormouse-in-tea.livejournal.com
I do this. Frequently. I'm sorry it's come to bite you.

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