Friday, July 30, 2010

cool blue reason

there's a time in the middle of every big life decision when the fog of fear, pain, confusion, etc. parts, and for one brief second, the cold light of rationality shines on you. the road becomes clear. consensus may even be reached in a bitter fight.

i woke up this morning in a very bad head state. things had escalated way out of control, and every answer i thought i'd reached had been replaced by a hundred questions. but for once, my instinct to overthink, overanalyze and generally obsess myself into a serious problem held itself in abeyance. i sat down on the couch, picked up a leisure book, and simply... started... thinking. it almost felt like my process during the bar exam, weirdly: i felt myself looking at the fact pattern of my life, issue-spotting, and applying the law to the facts. well, not the law, but more like the truth of my emotional life.

and strangely enough, i started to come to some realizations. things became clear again. for the first time in probably two years, i feel like i'm at a place emotionally where i can function normally. there's not this weird, clamped tension in my heart when his name comes up. there's no longer that desperate, pinched neediness to the interaction. instead, i look at him and i see, well, him, sitting across from me. i see a way to a peaceable future. maybe not the one we'd imagined, or even the one i'd imagined, but a good, pleasant co-existence.

there's hope. there's a chance. and by god, that's all i need.

5 comments:

  1. Hope...and sometimes it's all you can really ask for.

    I hope clarity comes sooner rather than later.

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  2. That sounds very nice. I'd like to come to that kind of peacefulness.

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  3. Isn't it shocking sometimes to realize that you're NOT overanalyzing something and that there's no need to because you've already acknowledge the emotional wackiness of it and thought through logically?

    And hope can be pretty awesome, most of the time.

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  4. Hey you... yes, sometimes, a deep breath will return you to your anchor point... and you realize that things aren't as bad as we feared or as they seemed.

    I am feeling the need for a road trip to such a place so I can get centered again... I need it...

    Hope is a good thing... always!!

    ~shoes~

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  5. You never know when you're over someone until you just are. Happy that you reached that point! xoxo

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