i should be sleeping. my eyes are burning and the lids are drooping, but i suddenly had the urge to write. i'm resurrecting my blog. fantastic funk lives again! i doubt anyone will read it. i don't know how often i'll write, or if i really have anything to say, but i need to start writing again and this is where i feel like giving it a go. it's for me this time, not for the acknowledgement of others, though i don't mind kind and supportive comments if people feel inclined to leave such.
life has been an interesting...what? adventure? sure, that works. i've had a good year and a bad year. graduation, vacations, movings about...friendships, family; loss, loneliness; attempts and failures, successes, griefs, joys...that's life, right? life is up and down, and sometimes upside-down. it's spun me until i couldn't stand, it's bored me until i couldn't sit still, it's tickled me till i cried from giggles, it's turned me topsy, chewed me up and spit me out, and ignored me completely. that's the way of things.
since graduation...well, maybe before then...maybe since last year sometime, i've been hiding out, becoming more and more recluse and solitary. i've been recovering, searching, avoiding; attempting to convince myself that i'm happiest alone. of course that's a big fat lie, but i don't have many options sometimes (especially with the Artist married now and other friends dispersed to various corners of the city, away...too far away). i'm doing the best i can, which, admittedly, isn't so very good sometimes, but it's all i can do so it's good enough.
i love working at seagull book! i love books, and i love my coworkers. i don't always love the customers, or certain aspects of the job, but that's to be expected in any employment.
i love my nieces and nephews! they are some of the greatest kids i've ever met (i know i'm a little bias, but i'm not the only person who says they are pretty great).
i love reading and music and movies.
i love the time i do get to spend with friends. now and then it's nearly like old times at the height of my sociality.
i love that autumn is here and the weather is turning cold. i love that winter is coming...mainly because it means my dear uncle will be coming to spend some time with us during Christmas!
i have some things to figure out and some decisions to make, but i'm not in any huge hurry. i just need to take life a day at a time and not put so much weight into every decision. and i need to start getting out there and being more social again.
...and i need to write more. i need to have more confidence in my writing. it's what i love so i need to just do it!
06 October 2012
01 July 2011
RIP
As you may have noticed, I have a bit of a deep, dark streak in me. Generally I suppress it, hide it, and try to play happy-fun-light girl instead. It comes out mostly in my writing. I've tried to write funny, entertaining things, but it doesn't work very well. People don't get my sense of humor. So I think sticking with the dramatic, serious, emotional, sensitive, etc. is probably better for me...except no one wants to read that. Therefore, I think that maybe I should stop writing all together for a while. No one really gets me at all...writing, speaking, or silent. My voice is not one people want to hear/read. I'm going to try to accept that fact and find something else for my whole life to be about. My heart just isn't in it anymore.
So where does one find new passion when old passion has died?
So where does one find new passion when old passion has died?
Ay, there's the rub
if i went away, would you search heaven and hell to find me? and if you found me, lost in the dark abyss of hell, completely out of my mind, would you try to convince me it's not where i belong? would you try to get me out, carry me back to the light? and if you couldn't, if i still didn't understand, if i still wouldn't trust you, wouldn't leave, would you sit down beside me, and lose yourself in my darkness just so you wouldn't have to be for eternity without me?
I think about that sometimes. Will anyone ever love me and need me that much that they would be willing to give up everything rather than living without me? I just got done reading the Hunger Games and this idea was sort of brought back to the forefront of my mind. Peeta was willing to go through hell and give up everything to save Katniss. Some friends recently read What Dreams May Come and have been talking about it, which is where this idea sort of originated in me in the first place. Now don't go jumping to conclusions, I'm not lost in the darkness, not on the verge of hell; just lazing in the shade a little too much these days I suppose. I can think of a few people in my life right now that I would sacrifice everything (including my sanity) for. There are maybe two or three that I would search heaven and hell to try to save. I don't think any of them would do so for me though. So it's good that I'm not in any real need of such drastic displays of love and loyalty.
Sorry, this is sort of a morbid and depressing post. I guess it's the hangover from the morbid and depressing books I just read.
In happier news, the boy I recently referred to as Will is actually sort of living up to the name these days. Not quite to the extent I would like, but enough that I think I'll let the name stay. Last night I asked for a moment of his time. When we were alone he asked what was on my mind. I told him I just wanted to sit with him for a few minutes. I was unsettled and he has a calming affect on me. So he sat by me and we talked about books; nothing significant, nothing important, just books we've read or books we want to read. Then he hugged me and I went on my way.
This morning he sent me a text asking how I was doing. That was a Will thing to do, be there in the moment (even though he was so tired), and then check up on me the next day, make sure I was better. I wasn't better until I got his text. Knowing he was there, knowing he cared enough to think of me, to check up on me, made it better, made another day bearable.
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.
(Hamlet) William Shakespeare
"For in that sleep of death what dreams may come"
I have Will, and The Artist, and they help me hold on to the dream that one day, someone will love me entirely and allow me to love him...through heaven and hell.
I think about that sometimes. Will anyone ever love me and need me that much that they would be willing to give up everything rather than living without me? I just got done reading the Hunger Games and this idea was sort of brought back to the forefront of my mind. Peeta was willing to go through hell and give up everything to save Katniss. Some friends recently read What Dreams May Come and have been talking about it, which is where this idea sort of originated in me in the first place. Now don't go jumping to conclusions, I'm not lost in the darkness, not on the verge of hell; just lazing in the shade a little too much these days I suppose. I can think of a few people in my life right now that I would sacrifice everything (including my sanity) for. There are maybe two or three that I would search heaven and hell to try to save. I don't think any of them would do so for me though. So it's good that I'm not in any real need of such drastic displays of love and loyalty.
Sorry, this is sort of a morbid and depressing post. I guess it's the hangover from the morbid and depressing books I just read.
In happier news, the boy I recently referred to as Will is actually sort of living up to the name these days. Not quite to the extent I would like, but enough that I think I'll let the name stay. Last night I asked for a moment of his time. When we were alone he asked what was on my mind. I told him I just wanted to sit with him for a few minutes. I was unsettled and he has a calming affect on me. So he sat by me and we talked about books; nothing significant, nothing important, just books we've read or books we want to read. Then he hugged me and I went on my way.
This morning he sent me a text asking how I was doing. That was a Will thing to do, be there in the moment (even though he was so tired), and then check up on me the next day, make sure I was better. I wasn't better until I got his text. Knowing he was there, knowing he cared enough to think of me, to check up on me, made it better, made another day bearable.
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.
(Hamlet) William Shakespeare
"For in that sleep of death what dreams may come"
I have Will, and The Artist, and they help me hold on to the dream that one day, someone will love me entirely and allow me to love him...through heaven and hell.
28 June 2011
Too Long
It's been a long time since I've written anything worth reading. My latest inspiration is not inspiring anymore. He's more a life raft these days, keeping me afloat, rather than the wind beneath my literary wings. I need to make some changes. The other night I realized that I've been drifting too long, it's about time I start paddling again.
23 June 2011
adrift and untethered they wander
I have been feeling a little fractured recently. For the last year or so I've had a pretty stable group of friends. I've had groups of friends before, and I've had them disperse before. This time, though, the dispersal is not really the same, and it's been kind of disconcerting for me. A few people went one way, a few went another, all joining or formulating other groups. I was kind of the hub, the organizer, the motivator of the group, now I'm, what? I don't feel like I'm really part of any of the new groups. I'm a drifter, sometimes invited, sometimes included...and sometimes forgotten or simply unwanted? I'm still friends with my former group members individually, but I don't really have a place in any of their new social circles. I try to fit in, feel comfortable, be myself, but I don't really go along with any of the new dynamics.
I was just coming to terms with being a leader, now no one is following. Other, more commanding leaders have pushed me aside. I've never wanted to be a leader, so generally I'm okay with this. However, I always tried to help everyone in the group feel wanted, included, cared about. The new leaders are not that way. Most of the time I feel tolerated at best, unwanted and excluded at worst.
I don't really want a new group. I don't want to make new friends. I like the friends I have and generally I'm content with the one-on-one time I have with these friends. I'm grateful for the friends who care enough about me to not neglect me or forget me, regardless of other friends and social groups they find.
I was just coming to terms with being a leader, now no one is following. Other, more commanding leaders have pushed me aside. I've never wanted to be a leader, so generally I'm okay with this. However, I always tried to help everyone in the group feel wanted, included, cared about. The new leaders are not that way. Most of the time I feel tolerated at best, unwanted and excluded at worst.
I don't really want a new group. I don't want to make new friends. I like the friends I have and generally I'm content with the one-on-one time I have with these friends. I'm grateful for the friends who care enough about me to not neglect me or forget me, regardless of other friends and social groups they find.
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