It's Easier To Leave Than Be Left Behind
Life is funny. You spend your entire childhood fantasizing about what kind of man you'll be when you're older. A cop, maybe a firefighter or superhero. Then one day, when you finally have a chance to meet him face to face, when you stand before the mirror on some Saturday night, alone, tracing the troubled memories in the scars of your chin, the first gray hair, then the next, the dawning recognition sets in that this is it, this is who you are, this is what you've become. And suddenly, the fantasy to which you once held so tightly, the hope, the freedom, all of it slips further through your fingers. Dreamt up innocence now replaced with drowned out impotence, and the punch line...Don't you see? It's you. It's always been you.
posted by A.J.M. at 11:11 PM
2 Comments:
I like your Blog. It seems moody and honest. Keep up the good work.
Sometimes it seems as though our highest dreams--this ideal of what we should become (or what we want to become)--seem so different when up close and personal.
Our experiences, our history, our stories--these make us. It's what we are. (As you eloquently put, our "dreamt up innocence.") But then the waves of reality crash on us and we become drowned out.
Yell, scream, shout all we want: we as humans can't dig ourselves out of this one.
Keep up the great work!
Cheers, -Will
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