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Saturday, November 8, 2014

Let it be

"Trade your expectation for appreciation and the world changes instantly" Tony Robbins

The night was young and so we were we. Stars hidden by clouds but there in the sky that was to be our palette of imagination bursting.  So quick we are to taint what could be beautiful, so quick we are to judge and compare and destroy. The explosions were meant for the sky but they were happening around me. Clothe yourselves with compassion COL 3:12. I'm not religious but I recognize right from wrong. There's a place and a time to speak the truth from a biased opinion and a subliminal annoyance to anyone that would listen, but this was neither the place nor the time, but most importantly not the company. If there was less of what was wrong and more of what was right the world wouldn't need pyrotechnical synthetics to make it pretty. When did it become okay to turn a simple social gathering into an evening much like a support group for discussing, most nonchalantly, what can only be described as "deflection of what I did wrong and now I'm going to point out how I don't care"? I'm sorry but this support group needs to be held in a carnie hall of mirrors, the counsellor being a clown. The night was escaping as fast as we were growing older and uglier. If someone is happy, let them be.  I've learnt that much in my twenty-six years of life and lessons experienced. Whether it's at your own minimal sacrifice or not, it won't change them in their euphoric state of happiness. There is very little one can do to restrict the happiness of another. Should you try to bring them down from their perceived cloud they will resent you and it will become a bunker of fireworks with the only escape being self implosion. Let it be. 

Now I preach these words but it is not my bible. Humans are not righteous. I get that people slip and slide into conversations and situations they would rather not choose to be in, in any other moment. I am no exception to this. Hindsight is a cruel reality check. It's remorseful and most times useless. I honestly feel like the only way to live life is in the exact moment you are in, but the key is to pre-meditate that you won't be the person you don't want to be. At this age one should have somewhat of an idea of who they want to be; how they want to act and where their heart, mind and soul shines. When someone else says you're in the clouds they don't understand that there are stars above what they see. It is their vision that is clouded and unless they have the patience and perseverance to make it through their view to understand yours - let them deflect.

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Crossroads suck big monkey balls. I've spent the last year down the one path, backing up to the the fork, only to repeat the same walk over the gravel, again and again.  Running, skipping, cautiously crawling to the point of standing still. Not taking in the scenery, blinded by the thrill. At the fork again, trees tall, air ill and feet to ground my will. Stalled.

I'm at the point of losing my muse.  Frailing that I won't find another.  Inspiration.  Substance.  Momentarily.  Taking the step is the hardest part, the direction doesn't matter as all roads are inevitably connected.

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Sunday, September 28, 2014

can you give me another?


My heart hurt another
So only one life can't be enough
Can you give me another
For the one who got away

Lonely I, I'm so alone now


There'll be no rest for the wicked

There's no song for the choir
There's no hope for the weary
If you let them win without a fight

If one heart can mend another

Only then can we begin
So won't you hold on a little longer
Don't let them get away

There'll be no rest for the wicked

There's no song for the choir
There's no hope for the weary
If you let them win without a fight
I let my good one down
I let my true love die
I had his heart but I broke it every time

Lonely I, I'm so alone now

Saturday, September 27, 2014

DIY

When she wakes up, she’s lying in the middle of her bed.  Arms stretched out to feel no one and nothing but the empty space occupied by the duvet and cool sheets.  The sunshine outside not yet penetrating through her white curtains, and it wouldn't, not today, it’s miserable weather out. The wind whistles and there are white horses on the sea. The kind of day to stay in bed.  She gets up. Spending most of the night trying so hard to fall asleep, with the help of whatever pain pills she could get her hands on, she decides that it’s just better to get up and face the weather.
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Wood glue, staples, paint and paper coming together day by day to create the creatures of the damned. It’s the build up to her favorite occasion and she’s having a party.  The invites are out and the transformation of her parents Mauritian styled home has begun.  She’s not employed by anyone so this is currently her everything. She’s putting her soul into creating these decorations and the creativity of it is flowing. Being a creative soul, it needs to be expressed and it’s been a while since she hosted a Halloween party, the last one having become quite an iconic event in her high school career. She’s now twenty-four and this party won't be as nearly as chaotic as the last.  She hoped for the sake of her parents’ house.  This time it would be an invitation only party. She'd learnt that much.

With all the preparation and dressing up, the night came around quickly and now the punch was flowing and the people arriving.  The veranda has been closed off with black bin bags as draping curtains, the table decorated with jars of all things disgusting sitting on blood stained cloth.  Gravestones along the length of the table and an oversized spider creeping up on the blinds behind it.  Ribbons of orange, black and white flowing in the breeze above, alongside a suspended ghost.  Cages with bones also hanging from the ceiling, a demon in the opposite corner.  A coffin in the entrance hall and specifically chosen music playing with lights flashing.  The effort was appreciated and the party had begun. Of all the people that came there was only one who stood out from the crowd.  Both barely invited and known, he arrived on the arm of a friend and although she was occupied with entertaining and being the hostess she really was entertaining the idea that she'd get to know him better. Just with that thought her party became chaotic but not in the way she had expected.  The party was actually soon to be her future life and there were only two guests, herself and this man wearing a pink onesie with a fro.  She didn't care much for serendipity or love at first sight or other magical things like that, instead she was more in tune with zombies and mummies and the day of the dead. But something changed, within her and all around her that night.  She was captivated. After introductions and a brief yet intense, to her at least, conversation with him the party continued.  She couldn’t do anything about it, or him, she had to realize that he came with another girl and he would leave with that girl.
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Sitting on the veranda of her parents’ house, ships still beating against the wind and the waves, she tries to express her soul with what she knows. Which happens to be quite minimal. She’s tired from lack of sleep and the turmoil inside of her is worse than the weather.  Probably still feeling the effects of taking nine painkillers which have not been fully slept off and now the numbness is less and it’s only a matter of time before she takes nine more, maybe twelve this time.  Regardless of it being day, it’s dark and cold and she doesn’t want to feel anything. She doesn't want to think or over-think about the time before she lay in the middle of her bed to try and fall asleep. If she does begin to analyze a bit of her spirit dies inside and she becomes someone she isn’t.  The time is now and moments are gone except from memory.
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Call it fate, call it sneaky, call it exciting.  And she was excited.  It’s been almost a year since her Halloween party and she’s recruited her best friend to drive forty-five minutes up the coast with her.  She’s always loved road trips and going away with friends.  She'll sing and move her shoulders up and down dancing to songs with meanings and memories behind them, on the road to excitement and intrigue.  She says to her friend, that she doesn't know why or how or when but she feels and knows then, that she could marry this man.   The music is lowered as she explains to her friend.  Of how this man dressed in the pink onesie with a fro seems to be both her destination and destiny. She tells her friend of how although they didn't know each other that they both wanted to at the same time.  She tells her friend that while he went off to date the other girl, she distantly thought of him while living her own life and making her own mistakes in love and life.  She recollects on how they bumped into each other outside of the local pub while his then girlfriend was away and how she felt she could talk to him for hours, and of how they happened to bump into each other again.  After he and his then girlfriend had broken up and how small talk and deep conversation at a club turned into a night of spontaneity and mystery.  To her it was still all a mystery and that weekend away was to make a kind of discovery.

Nothing but innocence happens that weekend.  She can barely speak to him she’s so nervous, she’s guarded yet so porous that he and his family manage to soak right down to her heart.  Mostly just him though.  What she learns that weekend substantiates her feelings.
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Why she couldn't sleep last night, why she hasn't slept in months is her own fault.  She’s become so dependent on substance, not necessarily in pill or other narcotic or toxic forms, but just substance.  That when she feels that it is lacking, everything else suffers.  Just how much she can express her feelings is hindered and amounts to this morning of sitting outside in the gloom grey weather while the world carries on around her. The ships have come in closer to shore and the birds are taking shelter one by one on the rafters above her. Her dog snoozes at her feet under the table, sensing she doesn't want to or shouldn't be alone.  She’s writing and listening to music.  The one song with lyrics that make her really listen and ultimately feel less; slowly drifting away, wave after wave, and it feels like I’m drowning, pulling against the stream.
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A whirlwind came next.  Before she knew it she was his girlfriend, and his friend.  She had met and fallen in love with his family, her family had met and fallen in love with him.  It wasn't a whirlwind of romance; it became a companionship in an innocent, child like curiosity kind of way that would slowly explode into comfort and convenience yet keeping the mystery and infatuation as focus. Weekends were spent together, then weekdays, then almost everyday.  Nights were spent together, slowly then surely. Never assertively but rather inquisitively.  She had the feeling never to leave him, never to not be around him, never to not love him.  He would make her believe, he would let her question, he would inspire her with himself and where they were going together. She would fall asleep with him in her heart and on her mind, to wake up enthusiastic and even more in love with him.  Whether it was chilled days on the couch holding hands, sweetly touching his skin with her thumb and playfully saying it was the thumb of love, or riveting nights of banter, philosophies and dreams turning into realities, they were together and happy. Whether it was moments of just them or moments shared with other people, they were happy. She had fallen hard and fast, and he had continued to captivate her.  She tells everyone how he’s her soul mate and that she loved him even before she had met him, even if only officially at that Halloween party. 

Time soon lapsed into months and hours into highlights, they were creating a story. She is believing it to be a love story of magnitude proportion that had and would continue to mean the world to her.  The love word was spoken and felt by her and him.
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It’s lunchtime yet she’s not hungry.  The wind has only got stronger and even the dog has left her outside to seek warmth away from her coldness. She’s trying to escape in her writing and gets brought back to reality by her work phone ringing, continuously, wishing she could rather deal with silence than any kind of problem. She answers and work is fixed. If only life was that manageable she thinks. Despondent and shivering, repulsed at the thought of food and her lack of control over herself she continues to write. Bearing in mind that she’s alone.
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Infatuated and infinite she would revel in the fact that she had him next to her.  She had him to talk to, to hold and to spend the best hours of her days with. And they were the best hours.  He was her best and although she had confided that she had never sincerely been in true love before and that she had been a poor example of love before then, she never dreamed of ever hurting him like the others before, as it was unimaginable that he would ever hurt her.  She felt intrinsically connected to him and he to her.  It didn't matter about ducks in a row, neither did it matter that their story had many antagonists.  They were the protagonists and the future was only but theirs, together. How pretty a new thing is. How enchantingly real it felt.  She adored him.  She respected him and she esteemed his portrayal since that weekend away; sincere and thoughtful, funny and manly, but most of all she couldn't take her eyes off him, and hadn't since then.  

All this time while yearning to grow from this man, who was so much more aware, so much more, so much, she wasn’t.  She was so smitten she became not hers, but his.  She would say naïve and silly things later to be regretted.  She would handle situations and arguments not as herself but as someone so benighted to the consequences.  She was losing her enthusiasm, her love for DIY creations in life and in love. And it began to increase and expand the cracks in their relationship. These cracks originated on either side, only to meet with force and destruction at the epitome and most middle of their story.  Her faults and his faults, this natural progression to a disaster of epic proportion, were soon to leave her a victim.

She hid it from the surface and that was all she was portraying to him, to her friends and to her family.  Momentarily erupting with confusion and entanglement.  Arguments ensued, feelings were offended and she felt so far away from him it hurt.  Yet she was there, she continued to spend the best hours of her days and her nights with him; only they weren't the best anymore.  Replaced with walking on eggshells and upholding this perception that they were perfect for each other.  Slowly she withdrew her embrace, slowly then suddenly her thoughts were not of them as equal characters in their story, but she saw him as he saw himself, the main and only character that mattered. Not her, not who she was or who she had subsequently become.   
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Now out of cigarettes but worst of all she’s completed all sources of tears.  Used up and useless. She knows she has to get in her fathers car and drive no more than five minutes down the road to soothe her addiction, however any task to face the world right now is daunting and crippling to her.  Perhaps she should've just stayed in bed all this time.  Shameful at her lack of luster for life she gets up and goes to the pantry, where the medicines are kept.  Returning, four maybe seven pills later.  Losing grip on reality is what she craves, not enough to overdose, just enough to not feel the cold.
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Engrossed in the downward spiral, the beginning of the end of their story had begun.  She was made submissive and thought as careless and unaffectionate. He was made insensible and indifferent and deflected his own disability to be affectionate towards her onto her instead.  What was once happy nights out together soon resulted in opinionated battles, albeit they were fighting to save something, at least she hoped, she knew it wasn't the way.  Yet it kept happening, night after night.  Whether is was locally at a Mexican restaurant, or a street party amongst strangers or even a hot and adventurous night in Australia, the location didn't matter.  What mattered was that it was re-occurring and irreversible.  She realized that the trust was gone, the respect was gone but worst of all the love was dwindling.  Because what is love without trust and respect? It becomes comfort based on what was once and to her it was where she wished she hadn't lost grip of everything. 

Birthdays are meant to be significant; she was unaware just how significantly it would be the actual plot twist in her mysterious curious story.  She left him, after a night of humiliation and hate.  The complete opposite to what she had loved, he'd ultimately hurt her first and now finally, and she questioned everything from the very beginning.  She left her heart, still connected to his by mere strands; she left him to his own demise.

Silence, then a few words written to each other but no solutions.  They grew apart. Her heart came back, the strands were still there, but his presence and hands were gone. Time heals all wounds and even if it doesn't wounded animals know it’s only a matter of time before they submit themselves for the kill. Initially, she stood in line for her ticket to the rollercoaster ride of feelings.  First jolts of anger, then swamped down by sadness, to lift in acceptance and accelerate in detachment moving on. But then, she halted the rollercoaster and jumped, much like a wounded animal, back into his arms should he have let her and he did every now and then.  She thought he could rescue her from the nauseating ride.  Instead it was this that would just put the rollercoaster on repeat.  Her reality lost again, fleetingly seeing the stillness of what life could look like had she only stepped off the coaster at the end point and walked away from that disbanded amusement park. But it blurred and dipped again.  Lines were never marked and the cracks although being covered were to resurface in squiggles of suspense.
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Needing a break, back to the pantry she goes.  After ransacking her entire house only to find she’s depleted all but four pain pills that she found in the depths and darkness of a bag forgotten, she swallows them hastily. At least she was productive enough to convince her mother to buy her cigarettes, the cheap kind, as she’s not just broke on the inside.   Sipping on a coke light that ironically has the word love written on it, she continues now shaking.
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The tragedy of trying she brought on herself that rendered her in a state of limbo, beyond the rollercoaster she’s now at the door of hell.  How much she enjoyed making those Halloween decorations not knowing that they and all her efforts would personify and creep into her mind as darkness and desperation.  She’s damned if she does and she’s damned if she doesn’t. 


It’s a Friday afternoon and although windy, she’s thirsty.  She calls him, she messages him, and she meets up with him.  She’s excited.  She’s feeling somewhat pretty but mostly spontaneous.  Offering to buy him and his friend a drink for nearly totaling them off this planet a few days before in her own car, she’s consciously embarrassed and wants to redeem herself.  In the same breath she’s hoping he can redeem himself and their relationship. Yet the cracks are showing and there’s now sinking sand on either side pulling her towards a fall she knows she’s not capable of surviving.  Not again.  He gives her no reason to stay.  She leaves, her heart still connected to his by strands but this time she realizes that it’s just her heart that’s holding onto his. There is no reason to believe that he cares or wants to reconnect to her heart.  She pays her bill and drives her fathers car home.  She’s now twenty-six and climbing into bed, the middle, she closes her eyes, but the thoughts and feelings don’t stop. She gets up and goes to the pantry, where the medicines are kept.  


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Friday, September 19, 2014

Lone Survivor

They say that if everyone were to put their problems on display in a pile, everyone would quickly choose their own pile over the others.  We're so quick to turn our world into the worst it could possibly be without a second thought or a moment of existentialism in the greater scheme of things.
To cut and edit one's life as they wish, to fabricate their Hollywood version of themselves on display to the rest of the world.  This is what happens on a daily basis all around me. What the fuck is real?

Well, I just watched a movie, albeit Hollywood made, that has hit me to my core and has opened my eyes above the popcorn and beyond the movie screen and has quenched my thirst to know and feel more than any overpriced soda ever would. To be honest I watched it from the comfort of my couch in my sheltered home but it being a movie I've gone with the popcorn and soda reference above.  However this was not just your average escape to another realm for 2 hours in a zombified fashion movie, it became so real and intense it has lead me to write. While I write now, this movie is happening in real life.  Over and over again.  It's so distant to South Africans that we're so focused on our own pile of problems and not reality. How ghastly it would be should our problems be switched with say that of a Navy Seal in the heart of the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan.
The gravity of actual reality.

Yes South Africans are constantly worrying about getting hijacked or robbed, but it's not real until it starts happening closer and closer to your inner circle.  Until then the majority of us worry about whether the traffic will be congested on our way to the gym or whether we'll be able to watch the rugby game on Dstv if it's raining outside, or whether we'll be able to clock off early and head to the pub to chat about gym and rugby with our friends. Circumstantial, sure. Reality, no. I'm so overwhelmed with trying to make a living while I know there are people worse off than me dying. I'm so overwhelmed with how little we all do, or more appropriately, how much we don't do on a daily basis to make this world a better place.

So sickening is conflict, that we close our eyes to it and encase it on our tv screens in the form of CNN and Sky News and then discuss it oh so liberally at drinks on a Friday evening. So sickening is the world, we choose to live in our own versions of it.  NEWSFLASH, you can turn the tv off and you can change the topic of conversation but there are both soldiers and civilians praying to their God, whomever he may be, to let them live another day. Every day. Even if that day is just as harsh as the previous one.  Why do they fight? What are they fighting for?  These are questions that can only be answered by wholly understanding and experiencing, by being fully and totally educated in an objective manner and answers utterly unattainable to the common man. How insatiably I long for these answers but barely scrape the surface of just how deep it all goes. Almost everyone is anti-war, yet it happens. And it carries on happening with war fighting war.  Feeding fuel to the fire. I can't rescue every soldier and I can't whisper words of encouragement and honour into their ear moments from death.  I can't feed all of Africa and I can't stop the robber from breaking into my house.
What can I do?...

...................... something, anything.  
Ultimately everything. 

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

lettering

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I'm tired now. Been running through my own mind far too franticly and too long and lonely.  Holding onto this right gone wrong. Chasing nothing but nothing. Doing no chasing to be chased, nothing. I'm as big as I want to be. I'm repairable, re-evaluatable and redeemable. 
So here I am. Something. 
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They say it's Spring.  Yet the flowers are yet to bloom and the wind howls at the new buds growing as if to head warning it is not yet their time.  Should they burst into something beautiful they may be swept up in a motion of chaos to be unseen by unappreciative eyes covered down.  They say it's Spring.  Coldness and crisp breaths are still, not giving life nor colour nor happy sunshine smiles.  Forced and stuck in a time frame, seasonal and binded to the future.  For what we wait, we think we may know.  For what we wish and hope, we should explore. Buds of green daring the wind and the blindness and the inevitable Autumn.  So buds breathe life, be colourful and smile.  Most of all, explore more than you think you know. 
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So here we are.  
Here being so far from what I ever imagined, so raw and true it stings with startlement. 
I don't want to ask you why
Underneath it goes, the reasons for whatever they be, buried. 
It is here where we go
Separate it shows, no reason needed, varied. 
All we've ever had
Won't be what we get
For now we are...
Here
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Steady as the flowers, we grow.


Sunday, August 24, 2014

To feel so conclusively...

It's enough repeating myself now.  Time to be brutally honest with it all.  Deep down I've always known, it was never meant to be, instead it would destroy me.  Beyond the picturesque you there is a harshness and irreverence that continues to demolish my everything.  Saving the world is great but being blind to people in front of you is rough and miserable.  You're depowering me everytime. 
The sadness of it all is your benightedness. 

Making others feel uncomfortable for the sake of saying or doing something inappropriate.  Whether it be reaching for my crotch in public or speaking to guy's girlfriends about masturbation as a form of entertainment, it becomes shallow, ignominious and afflictive. 
Wanting me to save you from being a third wheel, getting upset when I tell you I actually have plans to see friends for dinner.  Heaven forbid I do something that doesn't revolve around you.  I have never met or given my heart to someone so completely selfish.  It's over now, my heart in pieces scattered around, strung together in a mobile hanging above your devilish crib for the child you are to play with at your will.  It's going though.  I'm taking back my luster broken heart.  You won't see it, as I am invisible to you.  You won't know it because you don't even know me. 

I'll admit, I wanted it to work more than I should have.  My imagination won over my common sense.  Beyond the surrealism there is a harsh reality.  Either you know this already and that is why it has ended in the now or you have yet to step out and take a step back and see that I'm still breaking by loving you.  Then and currently still loving you but no longer in love with you and that's the difference.  To be "in love" - would be to feel it, wholly.  I never did.  It never made me feel whole because I never got enough back to fill what I was giving.  A few moments, a few words, smiles, games, joys, nights, that never grew. 
Perhaps if I could speak what I write instead it would make a difference, I never had the chance. 
You wouldn't have listened either, given a chance.

To feel so conclusively sad - how I don't wish this on anyone, but I know I'm not the only one.  Parting from the sadness, I grow.  Not knowing just yet how.  I need to love harder than I've been hurt.  I need to love not you.  Then shall my heart earn its luster back, its glow. 
"When we no longer need but choose which comes from a place of strength not weakness... so solidify yourself" 


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I'm sad because I'm telling my heart what to do. 
It shouldn't be that way, instead:
Can I lay by your side, next to you
And make sure you're alright?
I'll take care of you 
I don't want to be here if I can't be with you tonight
I'm reaching out to you
Can you hear my call (who's to say you won't hear me?)
This hurt that I've been through
I'm missing you, missing you like crazy
The you my heart still imagines.

Monday, August 18, 2014

as humans





Woken up like an animal
Teeth ready for sinking
My mind's lost in bleak visions
I've tried to escape but keep thinking

Limbs lost to a dead weight state
This skull caged like a prison
And he's lost faith he'll ever see again
The soul mate he once thought of me then

Underneath the skin there's a human
Buried deep within there's a human
And despite everything I'm still human
But I think I'm dying here

Woken up like an animal
I'm un-ready for healing
My mind's lost with nightmares streaming
Woken up, kicking, screaming

Oh.  Take me out of this place I'm in
Oh.  Break me out of this shell-like case I'm in

Underneath the skin there's a human
Buried deep within there's a human
Despite everything I'm still human

I think I'm still human
I think I'm dying here
I think I'm still human

Underneath the skin there's a human
Buried deep within there's a human
Despite everything I'm still human
But I think I'm dying here

Friday, August 15, 2014

letters to myself

I've never done it.  I've never just been. I've never had it.  I've never even started. 
It's too late
It's too late
It's all guesswork
It shouldn't be
To start again
To start again
I wrote of the now
This is it
Inside 
Inside
I've never tried.  I've never believed.  I've never dreamed.  I've never seen.
I will
I will
I am I am
To listen.  To love
To fight.
I am.

Your Correspondent


 Listen now. When people talk listen completely.  Don’t be thinking what you’re going to say.  Most people never listen.  Nor do they observe.  You should be able to go into a room and when you come out know everything that you saw there and not only that. If that room gave you any feeling you should know exactly what it was that gave you that feeling.  Try that for practice.  When you’re in town stand outside the theatre and see how the people differ in the way they get out of taxis or motor cars.  There are a thousand ways to practice.  And always think of other people. 
- Ernest Hemingway 

Thursday, August 14, 2014

and I feel in some way I do love you Keaton Henson

You're truly alone and you like it 

It's dark and it's deep, it's sad and it's damned.
The day 
This day just happens 
Circles of spirals, feels and fastens
Knowing not but taught
To myself, 
Start to infinite
Infant to contort, 
To delve
Nowhere
No longer dark at the bottom, no
Trying
But I've gotten
To be truly alone
And like it, lying.








Saturday, August 9, 2014

I'll have the waffles and spaghetti. Together? Yes.

Illusive conclusions perhaps? The beginning, the moment of clarity is lasting longer.  Oh! the maturity of growing up is taking its effect.  An invitation to the cause.  That cause being my purpose, my direction and ultimately, my readiness.  I've marked the rsvp to the future, my future, where the party of unknown guests dance with my happiness, hungry in an entwined spaghetti hallway. 


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I ordered two desserts.  I couldn't decide between, so I ordered both.  I ate them finished and boy did I enjoy my gluttonous feast!  Starting with a bit of each, deciding which was the lesser and savouring the other.  Until I mixed both options in my mouth... I couldn't not do that again!  It was like I created this perfection of sweetness captured.  But that sweet contentedness soon craves saltier perfections.  And this is my analogy to life.  I'm indecisive, I order more than I need, I feast in one or two things and only once I've depleted that perfection do I crave a third option, most likely so far from the initial choices.  Forever wanting, never accepting.  My spaghetti hallway is long, winding and sticky but it's one hell of a party that I'm committing to.  

At the same dinner as my behavioural character display with regards to dessert, I learned something.  Something I love to learn.  A new way of thinking.  

"Your brain can either be a waffle or spaghetti"
"Hahahahaha" I laugh as I sip my cappuccino before dinner even starts, "Is that even a thing?"
"Yeah, people either compartmentalize their life and thoughts or they're like spaghetti."
It's a visually obvious analogy.  I tell him to elaborate.
"Well take your dad for example, he thinks in Belgian waffle squares, the syrup strategically in each square"
"Well, yeah I guess, everyone can compartmentalize and be waffles but sooner or later, especially if there's too much, that syrup ends up all over the plate, your face and in your hair"
"That's if you're eating it!"
Touché
He carries on with this discussion - I'm thinking of delicious sweet waffles covered in syrup now.  
I'm getting hungry,  we order dinner.
"It is an actual thing, they say most men are waffles whereas females are spaghetti"
"But my mom?"
At this stage my mom informs us that she is indeed a waffle.  He carries on.
"Well, I'm spaghetti, so it's not limited to male versus female"
He is spaghetti for sure.  He just proved it.
So the just of this, as you can imagine:
Waffle brains are like a big Belgian waffle with defined compartments, each for one thing and one thing only.  Examples: football, computer issues, work issues, family, and watching TV.  Spaghetti brains are likely to cover five or six topics when asked a simple question - from making a dental appointment to discussing the economic development state of the world - before they get back to the question.  And, while the waffle brain is getting mental whiplash trying to follow this disconnected discourse, it’s all smoothly interconnected to the spaghetti brain.

I wish I had asked his spaghetti brain...

"So how does it work?  How do they work together, as humans?"
I know my mom and dad are both waffles.  Do you have to be the same to understand each other and live happily ever after?  Someone tell me!  This could save my love life or lack thereof.
Sure, ying and yang and that equilibrium stuff work together too.  A balance of waffle and spaghetti.  It doesn't sound great together, but who am I to judge combining two meals in one bite.  In fact, only when I had both desserts in my mouth was I truly satisfied (momentarily nonetheless).  But they were both desserts.  The same category. 
I wish this thought of spaghetti wasn't so long and entangled in syrup.
This is a conclusion I have yet to come to.

On the other hand, I should really book a dentist appointment.


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My future
The conclusion
Wildfire travels have been simmered down
Down to concrete floors
Not cold but inviting
Serenity in my space
My work my commitment
The conclusion
My future


New adventure:

Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Drilling holes into the present tenses



So don't listen to your heart
Listen to your soul
Listen to your common senses
I've been battered like a storm
Been run into a wall
Been vaulted like a row of fences
Don't be surprised
When those wide eyes
Drill a hole into the present tenses
You should cherish even more
The things that make us raw
Stay loyal to the consequences 
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We don't know each other
Even if we did it's under the cover
Won't let me in
The coalition of one
Complacent pathos
Electric chaos
Enchanted disaster
I read your karma
Yet you're blind to my writing
With heart hiding
Goodbye
Turn a blind eye
What will be will be
Om Shanti
For now, today
Namaste.