July 29, 2008
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mum sent word the other day that grandpa was getting more ill, and i thought back of my time spent with him with much love and respect, knowing that he will be at a better place if he goes. i was glad that i wasn’t upset or in crisis, cause after all i understood the human condition. i knew that we live in a fallen world. if he goes, i knew that our loss would be no greater than the many who pass each day.
and it’s today that i painfully realize that i no longer feel as deeply as i used to.
i can only vaguely remember back when my blog was not merely a gig guide. writing was my necessary release. i felt much more deeply, loved much more beautifully, lost much more painfully. i wrote and felt with that necessary intensity.
surely i would’ve responded to this news very differently then. i probably would have painfully struggled as i considered the fragility and futility of human life, given much time and though to make some sense of my turmoil; and hopefully, come to appreciate a beautiful, profound meaning at the end of the tunnel.
and so today, many years later, i realise that this ‘strength’ i was so proud to have came at a hefty price. i’m not sure now if it’s any strength at all.
i quietly contemplate and search my heart, for who i used to be. but even if he is still somewhere in there, i wouldn’t know if it’s worth paying that cost of being fragile again.
maybe it isn’t? it’s safer after all.
Comments (2)
You’re much stronger than you think, and letting yourself be fragile every now and then can be good for reckless hearts.
thanks shelley (: i hope to one day find that you’re right..