For months I've felt aimless. Lately, life has left a hollowness in me. Pit's of self denial have widened, waiting to be filled with something more than wasteful observations that never lead to action or absolution. Such needless fickleness. It festers and grows- takes root in my everyday routine. I grasp for what isn't important. Crave the superficial- building altars to flimsy falsehoods that inevitably find a way to burn and scatter. I'm left mute and immobile- watching the pieces swirl.
Out of my reach.
-Out of Control-
My sorrows joined their hands and multiplied with each passing month. They made everything good seem far away, long ago and unrelated to me. To temper my grief, I have been saying yes to everything. To say "No" would establish boundaries- something I've never been good at setting for myself. In these past months, I seldom literally saw myself at all, or at least not in the way I'd been used to seeing myself, reflected in the glass panes of mirrors and windows. Like most girls and women, I'd look at reflections of myself at least a dozen times a day without even thinking about it, searching to see what others saw, examining my surface, rather than my depths. My body was a palette to scrutinize rather than one I inhabited. Usually what I saw was less than what I'd hoped to see. I couldn't live up to my own standards- nameless ones I hadn't completely acknowledged or yet begun to fully understand....
Stagnant. But ever-changing. Not enough dicipline....too much destructive idleness. I'm growing so weary of the same situations with different faces....
I guess everyone comes to a point in their lives where they proclaim their own freedom. A fierce decleration stating: I shall no longer be imprisoned! I will no longer spend infinite futures fighing quarrels of an endless past! I will wait no longer to be released, for I am my own savior, severing the chains of comfort for the elasticity of personal growth....