Tuesday, November 15, 2011

empty journals rotting in my drawers

time and time again
under many a different mindset
i have attempted to start a journal.
however, my inherent obsession with including the minutest detail,  the urgency of feeling that each second of my day must be chronicled, comes because i don't know what is important.

so i must include everything.
this philosophy of describing my meals and the ghastly skirt of my second-to-last least favorite female teacher is an unfortunate one.  i do not know how to distinguish the amusing from the meaningless, the meaningful from the idiotic.  my life is a riddle, a sudoku box (devilishly difficult) that i still can't solve to a level of satisfaction.

do i have a good life?  i suppose i do. i have parents, nice ones at that.  a brother that is terrific in his way.  do i feel joyous in my niche?  in this beehive of Being?  i would say that i feel unfulfilled. at times, monotonous motion dots more aptly describe day-to-day activity than a flowering descriptive passage.  perhaps that is why i have trouble.  i know i describe something uninteresting, that i do not care about.  this feeling in the seventh (or ninth) layer of my subconscience manifests itself and sinks through the stacks of paper towels that make up my mind.  maybe i need Glad.  it seems to soak up inconvenient liquids rather efficiently.  glad is what i must find.  glad is what i wish i was.

or do i?  isn't being unfeeling the best?  watching the world spin round its axis in a cold, logical way, shooting radars from those eyelashes, cataloging what is perceived.  i suppose it is, isn't it?  being sad and depressed, and lonely, is fulfilling for an afternoon each fortnight or two.  and then mixed in with glee, excitement, heart-pounding-joy that is unexplainable mixed in thrice or...frice (four-ice).  i suppose that is best.  i suppose that is best.

-Pamplemousse

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