Tuesday, October 21, 2003

I do love writing. Sometimes all I want is just to get something published. Legitimately. I think sometimes that it would smooth several things in my life. The thing is, I have all these ideas on what to write about, but I sit down and psych myself out. I have so many outlines of novels that I think up. I have all these unfinished first chapters. I have character lists and discussions of themes and so many thoughts in my head and I just haven't mustered the courage to commit to an idea and see it through. I just cant bear to let myself attempt something, because I know my first novel will be crap. Everyone's is, unless you are genius, and I dont want to be discouraged. But I'm thinking I am just going to have to suck it up. So next time you see me, tell me to suck it up and go for it. It will make me laugh. ;)

Bedtime now, early! Yeah right here I go to find some distraction......

Call me [world] and ask me what i think.

Last night I made a decision for me that was not based on pride, which is absolutely freeing. I was logical. I was organized in my thoughts. I was ... emotionally efficient. And this coming from a hopeless romantic, formerly addicted to emotion. Any emotion whatsoever. I dont know what happened to me at the end of last year, but I became what I always wanted to become in terms of a blance of emotion and logic.

Anyway... I think i've decided I like being unexpected. Unlabeling myself, if you will. Then, only I really know who I am. Lots of people can guess, and I like being unreadable. I want to be mysterious, mostly because it helps me get to know others better. Most of all I dont want to be predictable. Not an easy feat for me... but becoming easier I think.

Time for bed, I'm going off in odd tangents....

Monday, October 20, 2003

Ok world, I will bargain for no one. I will forever be your sympathy, i will forever be an open silence to your words when you want no response, and i will forever be an answer when you want one... but i will never, never, never play dumb to you. Do not assume that I cannot think. Many people cannot, but me, that's all I do. I just think and think and think until it is more than I can stand, then I sleep and re-peace myself. Classes do not provoke the thinking I am talking about, only God does. He will put before me something unfathomable, and I know it's not going to have an answer... but I still think about it. I dont worry... I used to. I just try to figure things out in my own perspective. And inevitably... someone else with the same problem is usually my answer. Hours and hours of thinking only lead to a moment of spontanious epiphany that is the result of someone else's question. Other people proove me to myself.

I'm not saying I am smart, I am not saying that I have all the answers... or any for that matter. If you knew me, you'd know this. I am simply saying that I search my own answers, whether they make sense to others or not, it's all I have to give really.

Think about it... what do I really have to give to anyone? Just what I have learned about life, and I can only give that to people who want it from me. Otherwise I can give them the silence they want or the oblivion they project me to have, I can give them naivite and I can give them many things of which I am labelled. But only because they label me. The things I truly have are the only things that I can truly give, and I know how to give, but sometimes... people forget what life offers. Including me. And when I forget that, I have absolutely nothing to give, because I have forsaken myself and my faith. I can question my purpose in life all I want, but I think on too large a scale. I need to think smaller, on a personal level. The only purpose I can have is my affect on people. Anything else I do is indirectly the same thing. So what if I already know my purpose in relation to others? What else have I to find out? Good for me that I dont know any of it. I just know my own temporary answers. It's all temporary. Truth is eternal, but humanity has a very difficult time focusing on truth and thus can only grasp a little of it at a time. My holds on truth evolve and change in different categories of my life and will continue to do so.

Luckily for you, this writing is incoherant. It's a lot my little truths in one big pile, and this time they dont make a bigger truth. I still have more thinking to do to connect these thoughts together. This is merely a catharsis blog, to free the words in my head that I cannot help but write down.

If I didnt have this blog, I dont know what I would do. I love writing in this blog more than in my own personal journal. And yet here I am so obtuse. No details here, just thoughts, whereas my journal is more detail than thought. And i used to think that the details mattered more. When I write in my journal, I think of myself when i will read my entries as a grown woman, as a mother, as a grandmother, and I write everything I would ever want to know about my life. But here, I just speak, and hope that I am not simply talking to myself. But even if I am, I am still writing, I am still going, I am still alive in the ways that matter to me, thus I am here. My small tiny impact exists and still stands.

Here's to confusion....

Friday, October 10, 2003

I could be
a million
but strive just one,

to dry to dry to dry

and brush,

and in doing, cry,
and in weeping, wake-
to empty.


I could be
alone,
but know-
oh do i know

to wait, to hesitate

for a time to dry to dry

and leave it be.

and then, brushing me
to wake, without the weeping
and thank you by my breathing

Monday, October 06, 2003

hmmm.... can't sleep. maybe cause i dreamt last night, and i havent dreamt in forever, or maybe cause i know what i need to do with my life but don't want to know at the same time. maybe cause i just drank two diet cokes. in any case, i am awake, and writing.

mostly i am awake cause i have to make a promise to someone who doesn't read this, doesnt even know that this blog exists, and wouldnt know how to find it if they did.... i promise to them that there will be a day when they wont have to call me crying. that i will fix things for them, i will make things better for them. if there is one thing i will do in my life, i will do my utmost best to give them a peace they have not had in years and years. i will stop their crying. i give my word on that. i will do all that my little body allows me to do, in order to smooth the road which life has so unjustly delt to them. oh lord, how dare i say that they suffer some injustice... can i really say that without saying that God's plan is flawed, for i know His plan is perfect. I just pray that the promise i made is part of His plan, because I cannot imagine living my own life without this promise.

Maybe now that I have written this thought down and made it real, i can sleep. Goodnight. If only i could give that peace tonight......