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  • a reasonable expectation
    littlemaenad
    1 Mar 2005

    It seemed a reasonable expectation but perhaps I was always asking for too much too soon. Was I born demanding? Born hungry- craving new and unusual experience beyond the realms of anything I had encountered before? I never believed so, never believed myself unreasonable or rapacious. I merely wished to possess that which was owed me, but then the true difficulty lies in determining what that is.

    The line between what one wants, desires, craves, and what one ‘needs’ grows ever blurry. Logic proves no use. The brain cannot and never could truly distinguish the matters of the ever irrational heart.

    There is no solution. There is no action to be taken. All that remains is patience, and holding on to the hope that all previous rash, unplanned actions were not in vain, were not too foolish, were not too brave, and were not too late.

    Out on a limb is a very dangerous place to be. The further one moves from the pivot, the point of equilibrium, the greater the torque grows, the more unstable- then breaking point.

    You fall. Down and down and down. Is there anyone there to catch you? Have you strength to catch yourself?

    The time in between tutorials is conducive to nothing