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"There are times when the actual experience of leaving something makes you wish desperately that you could stay, and then there are times when the leaving reminds you a hundred times over why exactly you had to leave in the first place . . ." -- Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet.
( the sky over canada on sunday )
I don't know how much influence where you were born and bred has on where you end up -- because there seems to be a bridge in between where is Home and where I belong. If soy lattes and sisters and Strawberry-the-cat followed me all around the world, maybe I could stay anywhere forever. Because now I know where to be and it isn't always where I keep leaving my heart every other day. Home is where the city and the sea and the meadows are entangled together in a dusty day, home is where I love my sister, home is morning lattes with my papa, home is Masterchef on the sofa with a cup of tea and my mummy. Home is in the future and the past but never the present. Does that make any sense?
Maybe it could be adequate to fall in love with a place inside your imagination. But turn fantasy into reality and live inside a reverie. Live inside a Nightmare! If awake were better than asleep --- that's what I dream of. To weep when I wake because I'm so overwhelmingly happy to be alive. To sob before I sleep because I have to kiss goodbye a life I love for several hours. Make memories to last a lifetime and scribble words that romanticise everything about it so the story is the most beautiful that it could ever be. Fear and haze and confusion make wonderful lessons --- it's exciting, it's special and it's something you'll never forget. You'll float on okay.
Maybe it could be adequate to fall in love with a place inside your imagination. But turn fantasy into reality and live inside a reverie. Live inside a Nightmare! If awake were better than asleep --- that's what I dream of. To weep when I wake because I'm so overwhelmingly happy to be alive. To sob before I sleep because I have to kiss goodbye a life I love for several hours. Make memories to last a lifetime and scribble words that romanticise everything about it so the story is the most beautiful that it could ever be. Fear and haze and confusion make wonderful lessons --- it's exciting, it's special and it's something you'll never forget. You'll float on okay.
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There I was last week on a train crawling across Belgium with a notebook between my fingers. Je te vois, a-fille-far-up-in-the-sky, I can see you from the clouds, your hands dancing golden in the sun. Despair doesn't exist in your world. I think apathy is worse than defeat. To watch faces fade into the past because you let terror and ego get the better of you. It's all nonsense, you know. Being scared or shy ofzo. Happy is real because it's a reality you created or walked your way into. It's a state of mind you have to hold onto. If you don't forget then you can't let go, remember the butterflies and the smile you tried to swallow (but why!) and the sillyfaces you made while you were daydreaming and the fascination that some things can make you feel opalescent. I don't know if happy would really exist unless you understand melancholia.
There I was last week-end in Paris with a suitcase and 90 steps down, down, down Abbesses. The ache and exhaustion disappear, but the inner strength lasts a lifetime. Fairylights in Montmartre and a €1.60 container of dinner. Long for company but imagine how different these words would sound if somebody were there.
There I was on the roof in a different time-zone. Sometimes lately my heart doesn't beat, it trembles. It's not panic or angst but a shiver in the heat. Maybe it's nostalgia, new and nausea mingled together to become an awkward blend of untitled emotion.
There I was last week-end in Paris with a suitcase and 90 steps down, down, down Abbesses. The ache and exhaustion disappear, but the inner strength lasts a lifetime. Fairylights in Montmartre and a €1.60 container of dinner. Long for company but imagine how different these words would sound if somebody were there.
There I was on the roof in a different time-zone. Sometimes lately my heart doesn't beat, it trembles. It's not panic or angst but a shiver in the heat. Maybe it's nostalgia, new and nausea mingled together to become an awkward blend of untitled emotion.
"Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible." -- Oscar Wilde
And here I am now strolling streets I've never seen before and I can't remember my footsteps if I move too quick. The grey matter of my mind is vacuum-esque, but somehow it's not. The current of my thoughts move fast and ebb-flow with the moon. But I'll tell you one thing -- lately I'm frightened that if everywhere could feel like home, then nowhere will ever feel like home.
And here I am now strolling streets I've never seen before and I can't remember my footsteps if I move too quick. The grey matter of my mind is vacuum-esque, but somehow it's not. The current of my thoughts move fast and ebb-flow with the moon. But I'll tell you one thing -- lately I'm frightened that if everywhere could feel like home, then nowhere will ever feel like home.
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