Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Just Here - 2/11/2014

So a friend asked me on Facebook how I'm doing. And I had to think about it. I realize I really don't know. Not in a bad way. This isn't depression or unhappiness, or even a negative state, I just realized that my response to that question is just a sort of neutrality.

It's not tranquility, or peacefulness. It's not happiness or sadness, joy or pain, just in between everything.

But at the same time, it's not the dismissive apathy or boredom I've known in the past. I'm not uncomfortable, not angry, not finding fault with everything. I'm just sort of... here.

So then the question becomes, if one is here, and here is neither a good place nor a bad one, should one move on? And if so, how and to where?

But, you know, I think I'll let myself stay here for awhile. This is a place that feels like maybe a respite from having to push so hard just to keep going.

In my head there's a place I'd like to live. It's set into a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean, somewhere on the Central or Southern Oregon Coast. In this mood, I'd like most to sit, wrapped in a blanket, watching storms roll in over that ocean. Not do anything, not think anything in particular, no music, no background noise, just me and the storm, each of us drifting in our own way.

Yeah, I think I'll see if I can stay here, like this, for just a while. I like that.


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