There is the joy and the pain, these two words I use in with the formulation of joy of love, of kindness, newness, excitement and openness. And Pain. Pain is of the promises entered into unawares of the outcome, and simply accepting that the outcome was unknowable. Pain is realization. And joy is overcoming.
We can all hope for something meaningful… meaningful that we can hold up as evidence to others or, most importantly, for ourselves, and say, “Look, I am loved. I have a partner devoted.”
The closeness which we may feel with others really determines how truthful we are to ourselves and what we choose to reveal and to heighten and recognize. This is the truth.
In the presence of strangers, I have had the best epiphanies. But, it’s been awhile since I have placed myself so completely among strangers in a way that led to some abandon. Or is it abandon? It is frank openness, although I am also too prone to styling myself, to being opaque and not being
I do not like this.
I want it.
That is one element-the unexpected, the openness, the newness-that one needs in life to be inspired and to keep on living…
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