Archive for February, 2015

Amphibians

I opened the front door of my apartment building today and felt the calm chill greet me with a lackadaisical care of my existence. Was it the air that was rushing in to vent my space or was it the other way around — for I had felt at that moment that my simple, quiet intrusion had caused a ripple that truly meant nothing to the world around me. But I had to stand there and take it all in for a few seconds at least; as tribute, as homage, to our city and our fates intertwined. Door hinged midway like the symbolic opening and closing of a chapter in a book — same book nevertheless but definitely a neatly tied up ending that had run its course. The only thing propping that last sentimental page up was my questionably straight, solitary arm in the doorway of life — of the most deliberate few tributary seconds of my life. That delaying, that procrastinating, that solidifying of the moment was like instant gratification as I breathed in the velvet wintery New York City air on the morning of February 9th of 2015, when I was finally performing instead of speaking my acceptance and acknowledgment of my helplessness in this vast life of change. And stepping down those royal steps of life, one walks tall and hardened at the same time — cold yet warmed by the vicissitudes and circumstances we are born into, and one emerges a half-formed amphibian — perpetually walking on land and attempting to swim in the sweeping waters of life.

I did not remember the door closing behind me on that saturated Monday morning, but I know that it certainly did and I certainly let it without putting up any instance of a fight.

Confessions

Every post I publish here is a confession really, and they do help me release pent up energy even if there is ultimately nobody to receive the note. There are certain readers who still read this blog, but that’s not the main idea for me; it’s the necessary expression that keeps me sane and alive.

Necessary confessions of the day, nothing too tenebrific–

I fantasize a lot… they aren’t even necessarily sexual; most of the time they’re very chaste, mundane things in life that I wish had happened or would happen in the future… with certain people.

I don’t get along very well with British chaps because well, I probably don’t understand their sense of humor. But on the other hand, Americanisms are starting to become second nature to me as of late.

I have this delay in feeling emotions. It’s like my heart will process it but my brain will scan through and store that information in a facility somewhere until the opening date where I open the package and to my surprise/surmise, the emotions are staring back at me so lucidly that I can have no doubt about it. So then, the question becomes, did I only catch those feelings at the time of opening or from the very beginning? For if the brain was unaware… then it wasn’t really part of my consciousness. Subconsciousness maybe.

I like using excel a lot more than the normal person.

I always need to have something/someone in my heart to fixate on otherwise I feel empty inside.

I’m starting to feel old and weary. I’m starting to liken stability and peace, despite the random bouts of energy.

I judge 30-somethings that still act like they are 20-somethings, even though I know it’s probably because their trajectories got delayed somewhere down the line, or because they never wanted certain trajectories in the first place.