Monday, October 12, 2009

it's always self-inflicted

Hey guys,

This past week has been good, I’ve been weighing a lot of things internally and I’m pleased with the self drawn conclusions that I’ve come up with.

We’ll start with the downers first though. Late this week I suffered a blowout/infection on both of my ear gauges, needless to say the fault lies within my egocentric improvidence to see the outcomes of things like this. I’ve been treating my ears religiously for the last couple of days, and hopefully with enough care and some luck, they’ll end up back to normal.

My classes are okay, they leave me kind of insensate but that was obvious even when I picked them. Things get so dry behind those doors that my sanity is nearly palpable once it’s left me, it practically coats the doors and the ceiling tiles; so everyone can gaze up to understand the degree of my stultification.

But then, it’s Thanksgiving already! As of late, my senile tendencies have hardly been put on a brief hold, out of notice for the convivial jubilee of turkey. The abundance of close family and friends this last week/end has put me in a reverie of inebriation, and at times, a sense of tranquility built only upon sobriety and friendly faces.

It’s like the stubborn heterodoxies that we’re weighing down the shoulders of my family and I, we’re lifted just long enough to instill a sense calamity. This same sense of calamity instilled a very genuine inkling of true optimism and thanks.

When I looked around this weekend I gave thanks, not to the food or the wine, but to the plethora of relationships I had surrounded myself in. I gave thanks to all the forms of fondness that were inside of me, some of which I had not known about.

These relationships were based on many things, whether the bonds we’re tied through blood, marriage, association and even morose adaptations; that brought me closer to these relationships, in ways I truly did not think possible.

To be meticulous, I give thanks to all of You. All of the people surrounding me, you are all luminary holes in heaven’s floor, my own personal stars to give me something to look up to, when all else is surrounded in the blackest of skies.

Finally, the time I’ve taken to ponder my grievances has really seen this last conterminous of time pass without any alleged faults or regrettable actions. I’ll keep running at these hurtles with everything I have, with an unfamiliar, but refreshing glimmer of Hope pushing me forwards.

There is some small sense now, that with time and patience; things may eventually be okay, and I’m starting to try and grasp that.