It is, I might be absolutely recoiling but You'd definitely be employee of the month or midnight?(I don't don't how sleep paralysis demons do that stuff)
Anyone else physically recoil when thinking about how we are made of flesh and bone. I can even look at uncooked meat, if I've seen it raw I can't eat it cooked. And if it looks like a limb I'm not eating it at all. Then I think about how my body is uncooked meat and my bones possible tools and I shudder, I feel far to close to the tendons and the blood, I feel alive, so alive that the sound of my heart is a warning and a blessing, I feel so alive I'm afraid I'll die, I'm afraid of how gruesome it is.
It's time.. . .. I'll say tomorrow
I'll do it tomorrow I said yesterday I'll do it today I said tomorrow I'll do it yesterday I said today..
Sometimes I think the dreams are either alternate versions of me or another person completely and I'm just hopping along in their life that night.
I had a dream I was a woman working in a book store but this woman was not me. I've had this dream before over a decade ago, same woman, same bookstore. She now has her own office so she's doing well since the last dream, she seemed happy, fulfilled. I woke and felt motivated to do something with my life. Maybe visit a books store, maybe I'd see her in the women checking out books, Maybe I'd one day see myself with my own book adorning the shelfs.
I wonder if she dreams of me, I wonder what she sees. Am I a recurring dream, the Young women that prefers to stay curled up, that never went out with friends and now lives half in a world of pretend. Does she see me lay in bed, lost but searching, waiting but hiding. Am I a nightmare. Does she wake confused and heavy and think thankgod that's not me.
Am I only ever meant to dream of what could have been.
I try to write something, anything, but the words are only clear when I feel them press against my heart and mind. They become muffled when hands reach for them, they loose their shape.
I know I don't say it enough and we joke about depression and how loneliness is eating up our lives, but it will be okay. I promise you it will.
I painted something to accompany what I wrote above Here
Hollow eyes watching the crowd
it's mid day, It's busy
People rush to stores like beds of fish
Fish with magpie eyes looking for shiny things to take back to their home
The figure watching, Is ignored
To look at those hollow eyes would mean to look at their own magpies ones
To confront the misery and their lack of it
So instead they talk louder as they walk past, they drown out a defeated "excuse mโ
Or they become silent, their steps quick and their eyes down as they click and swipe
As the figure with hollow eyes watches you pretend to type.
An incoming phone call you say
And I freeze like a deer in headlights
Have I been hit, I feel blooding rushing past my ear drums
My heart is beating quick
then quicker, a fast rapid flicker
it's trying to run away, but my body won't move
Instead my body stands shock still and I watch locked in, but so far removed
I'm dizzy spinning around and round in my amygdala, a ringing is pulsing against the outside walls of it
trying to get inside
I cannot hide
Then the ringing just stops
it's stops
Incoming call is dropped and rational thinking has lost.
girlie that's not a random headache u are dehydrated malnourished over caffeinated over stressed and sleep deprived
I'm teaching myself a new skill, its going as expected, I'm running into a lot of walls and I'll find myself tracing paint marks or picking lint of the carpet than actually making an effort.
So I keep reminding myself that in five years the time will still have past anyway. Or that sixe months ago I would have had a little foundation already, if only I stuck to it. So yes you'll feel frustrated at the beginning or halfway through, yes you'll have days or months of procrastination of feeling like there's no point even continuing, but the time will pass regardless. So in a year you could have bits and peices of a project, or you can have nothing at all, you could have a baseline of understanding for a new skill or none. It doesn't matter if you think that the payout won't be much, because it will be something as apposed to nothing. Rome wasn't build in a day as people say, so don't measure your own progress to harshly, just continue to build at your own rate, but if you believe in your project don't give up, progress is still progress.