The sun hovered just beyond the horizon this morning, hiding behind endless layers of clouds. The light has not been too bright and the early morning hours never really got beyond hues of blueish gray.
You can smell the city on the breeze.
A bizarre mixture of fast food, oil, smog and pollen.
The sound is just as mixed with the calls of birds, reeving of motors and the occasional cries of a person or cat.
I wish it was possible to make sense of what is going on inside of me...as I can with what is going on outside the window.
There are proper nouns, objects, places, people and things...and inside of me there is this raging sea full of so many insufficient metaphors which seem to make less sense as the days go by.
Is this normal?
Surely I'm not the only one to question the reality of the world.
How we can be created to feel so much good and bad...and how a good God does Love.
It's far more painful to be Loved than ignored, hated or rejected.
Love drives in between the scales of armor and pierces the heart like nothing else can hope to ever do.
If you ever want to destroy someone totally, do not use hate.
Use love.
It rips apart the fabric of their very being and in its place...something new grows.
And this raging sea persists.
Tides rise and fall.
Cycles begin, end and than continue.
Day in and day out.
Hours and seconds tick away.
Those ticks become a black mark on the calendar by my door.
This madness we call life.
We live, we live and we live.
Every second with static and noise that only sometimes makes sense and in those miraculous moments somehow life happens in all of its imperfectly beautiful ways.
Friday, March 22, 2013
Open Window, Fresh Breeze
Labels:
Depression,
Fresh Breeze,
God,
Hope,
Life,
Love,
Noise,
Normal,
Open Windows,
The Sun
Thursday, March 21, 2013
On Depression
Perhaps the worst part, certainly the most annoying, aspect of depression and anxiety is this feeling of suffocation and fear.
It is all irrational.
There is very little basis for any of it.
And yet...the struggle is so hard.
It matches the physical pain of the fibromyalgia in terms of stress.
It's like having a weight on my soul while my spine is alight from pain.
This is frustrating beyond belief.
But I also choose to believe there is Hope.
Hope that I did not merely choose but chose me as well.
Hope to carry on.
Hope for strength.
Hope for Love.
Even while I feel like this bed has become a prison cell and that no one hears me...there is hope that someone, somewhere can read this and relate...and know they are not alone.
None of us are truly alone.
We may not get what we want out of life.
Things rarely go according to plan.
But at least Love still flies.
It is all irrational.
There is very little basis for any of it.
And yet...the struggle is so hard.
It matches the physical pain of the fibromyalgia in terms of stress.
It's like having a weight on my soul while my spine is alight from pain.
This is frustrating beyond belief.
But I also choose to believe there is Hope.
Hope that I did not merely choose but chose me as well.
Hope to carry on.
Hope for strength.
Hope for Love.
Even while I feel like this bed has become a prison cell and that no one hears me...there is hope that someone, somewhere can read this and relate...and know they are not alone.
None of us are truly alone.
We may not get what we want out of life.
Things rarely go according to plan.
But at least Love still flies.
Labels:
Anxiety,
Depression,
Fibromyalgia,
Hope,
Love,
Pain
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Thursday, March 14, 2013
I hate that feeling of depression...that pushes things to where you do not want to do anything.
Apathy is annoying.
Badgering and beating.
Trying to breath at times is hard.
But every time I stand up, every day I get up out of bed and keepkicking things around...it gets just a little easier.
Every time.
It's hard to stand up.
But time to stand tall and not give up.
Time and time again.
Apathy is annoying.
Badgering and beating.
Trying to breath at times is hard.
But every time I stand up, every day I get up out of bed and keepkicking things around...it gets just a little easier.
Every time.
It's hard to stand up.
But time to stand tall and not give up.
Time and time again.
Labels:
Depression,
fighting depression,
living,
standing tall
Monday, March 11, 2013
Sunday, March 10, 2013
Late Night Thinking
Still trying to work out thoughts.
Not happening very well.
Or easily.
Feels like my brain has just been blocked.
Well there is a block preventing me from writing.
Having creative outlets.
It's easy to stare at my ceiling fan listening to Nine Inch Nails or U2.
It is so easy because nothing creative is coming out.
The best I get is when working on decks for Magic but even still I'm just getting bored of it.
Not bored of life.
Just bored of what feels like a singular always repeating path with no real change.
I stopped playing games for the most part back in 2006 and while they have helped me cope with things the past couple of years...I may be in need of a break.
Or just a change.
A massive giant change.
Not happening very well.
Or easily.
Feels like my brain has just been blocked.
Well there is a block preventing me from writing.
Having creative outlets.
It's easy to stare at my ceiling fan listening to Nine Inch Nails or U2.
It is so easy because nothing creative is coming out.
The best I get is when working on decks for Magic but even still I'm just getting bored of it.
Not bored of life.
Just bored of what feels like a singular always repeating path with no real change.
I stopped playing games for the most part back in 2006 and while they have helped me cope with things the past couple of years...I may be in need of a break.
Or just a change.
A massive giant change.
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Saturday, March 2, 2013
Friday, March 1, 2013
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Ridiculous Songs at Night
I feel the energy.
Hunger for hate.
Seething rage about to boil.
Kick the music into overdrive.
Sound waves starting to careen
create and crease as it starts to live.
Vibrations,
they make and create
blurred lines of emotions.
Screams and slamming
a beat
with tone
and reverberating.
Smash this,
break it in
and don't know
never know
what just to do.
Hunger for hate.
Seething rage about to boil.
Kick the music into overdrive.
Sound waves starting to careen
create and crease as it starts to live.
Vibrations,
they make and create
blurred lines of emotions.
Screams and slamming
a beat
with tone
and reverberating.
Smash this,
break it in
and don't know
never know
what just to do.
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Thesis Writing
Wow.
I didn't realize how hard it would be.
Seriously.
I have not had such a hard time writing...in...well...forever.
I am so freaking worried about getting myself expelled or kicked out for being too moderate and upsetting the status quo.
That is why I'm trying to work on several projects at once...I am hoping the excess of writing will help trigger something with my thesis and then I will be able to just throw it all down, get it down, get it approved and then dance across the stage and May and never return to that insufferable school.
But in the mean time I have to read for school, write some smaller papers and explore the realm of online writing. Right now it's just writing reviews and placing them online to give myself some focus...but that is better than just sitting here and hitting my head against the desk.
I didn't realize how hard it would be.
Seriously.
I have not had such a hard time writing...in...well...forever.
I am so freaking worried about getting myself expelled or kicked out for being too moderate and upsetting the status quo.
That is why I'm trying to work on several projects at once...I am hoping the excess of writing will help trigger something with my thesis and then I will be able to just throw it all down, get it down, get it approved and then dance across the stage and May and never return to that insufferable school.
But in the mean time I have to read for school, write some smaller papers and explore the realm of online writing. Right now it's just writing reviews and placing them online to give myself some focus...but that is better than just sitting here and hitting my head against the desk.
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Meek Whispers into the Night
Oh Soul,
are you lonesome tonight?
Are you lonely tonight?
Are you looking for love,
just for tonight?
Tired Soul,
broken nails,
dirty face
and tear stained clothing
are all hurting like Hell,
getting tired of grace.
Oh Soul,
won't you come out tonight?
Will you speak out tonight?
Be moved tonight?
The hour grows late
and soon the chime shall ring
striking chords of midnight
and what have we to show?
Made to be of a consistency
reflecting that of
Celluloid and Cellophane.
False lies
and plastic smiles.
I hope it does not repeat again tomorrow night.
are you lonesome tonight?
Are you lonely tonight?
Are you looking for love,
just for tonight?
Tired Soul,
broken nails,
dirty face
and tear stained clothing
are all hurting like Hell,
getting tired of grace.
Oh Soul,
won't you come out tonight?
Will you speak out tonight?
Be moved tonight?
The hour grows late
and soon the chime shall ring
striking chords of midnight
and what have we to show?
Made to be of a consistency
reflecting that of
Celluloid and Cellophane.
False lies
and plastic smiles.
I hope it does not repeat again tomorrow night.
World of Warcraft
Yeah...just...don't even say a thing.
Stigma.
Shame.
Guilty pleasure.
Wonderful music.
Familiar sounds.
The only thing that could hope to ever match it was The Matrix Online...
Stigma.
Shame.
Guilty pleasure.
Wonderful music.
Familiar sounds.
The only thing that could hope to ever match it was The Matrix Online...
Friday, February 15, 2013
Must finish prospectus...must finish prospectus...must...finish...prospectus...
Labels:
headache,
masters class,
prospectus,
sleepy,
thesis
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Quote of the Day:
"Love is not fantasy. Love is real, and true love is
forever. True love comes without condition. It comes with sacrifice and
selflessness. It comes in the form of freedom. I have felt it. I still
feel it burning inside me like a raging fire that will not be contained.
It sweeps over barren landscapes and devours the bleak darkness and the
empty sorrow. It washes over pain and hopelessness until nothing
remains but these: Faith, Hope, and Love… but the greatest of these is
love.“
— | "The Spinal Cord Perception" by Joshua S. Porter |
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Monday, February 11, 2013
"I Am Afraid I Am Me" - Showbread
"Lately i have found frustration among the incongruence
a movement of peasants and pacifists drowning in patriotic affluence
i feel as though i should do something but I'm staggered by the ramifications
they've baptized the empire into the church and heralded its sanctification
sometimes i feel as though I'm taking place outside of myself
but I'm afraid that i am me
I am me
I'm me
I'm me
"blessed are the meek" succumbs to "might makes right"
"turn the other cheek" succumbs to per-emptive strike
"love your enemies" is fossilized beneath the frozen tundra
and "blessed are the poor in spirit" is devoured by "God bless America"
you file the children into the classrooms, make them stand and say an oath
and when we ask "should i love God or my country?"
you smile and tell us "both."
we've hidden the God we claim we serve and driven him beneath the floorboards
but i can still hear this still, small voice
and i can't take it anymore"
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