Thursday, May 24, 2007

Do you ever get this feeling that haunts you for a brief moment. A feeling like 'someone' decided that you should know of this notion at this time and place and forget it the next. A feeling that is so bitter but at the same time so sweet simply because you assume that it couldn't come from your mind or heart, as if you could discern between the two. A feeling that you somehow believe to be true even during a moment where truth itself doesn't seem real. Even during a moment where truth, real or not, doesn't matter anyway. This feeling where you notice for the first time, as far as you can remember, that you are not profound or unique in any way. This notion that tells you that you are a tiny minute being embedded in something so vast that you are barely necessary. In the same way that you notice rain but never an individual drop. And if you did, you might see the similarities. You might think of how that drop was formed independently of the others. Formed from the same source and elemental makeup but still completely alone and without remorse it falls from the same source in the same way. It looks the same and has set out with the same idea of what it's purpose is. It accomplishes the same goal and goes to the same place afterward. But it was never a part of anything. This is a painful thought process. And after you've finished staring at the soil where there was, just seconds ago, a rain drop that symbolized this feeling, you can look up again having already forgotten it all. You walk away with just the gladness of knowing the 'someone' that made that rain drop. Knowing that 'someones' love.

3 comments:

Amy said...

How funny that i haven't checked your blog in ages, and I checked this morning just out of curiosity, and there's a new post--what a treat! (That sounds hokey. Deal with it.)

I love your thought processes and the way you relate them.

Angela said...

Yes, I have, and the idea that it is painful and beautiful at the same time is exactly what I decided.

Anonymous said...

hi aaron.