Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Learning how to live...



March 27th



     I was asked, 
           today
by a friend
    
      "How do you go from 
day to day life
watching everyone 
           live their lives 
complaining 
about worthless issues 
without 
being completely 
enraged?

I don't know how you do it."



    What my friend 
doesn't 
   know
is that this 
       has been a huge
struggle of mine 
for 
years... 

  There have been days, 
weeks,
   months even
where I 
    have found 
it hard 
  to even function... 

    knowing 
what I 
    know... 
having seen 
     and heard 
the things I have... 
        working towards 
   a solution
has
  consumed my
thoughts
  for years... 
My friends 
   have grown 
weary, 
   I am sure, 
of hearing me 
      rant... 
of me always 
   talking 
about heavy 
       issues... 
Even now, 
   it is very difficult
for me to 
     sit through 
conversations 
   that don't seem 
to ever 
   go anywhere... 

    that have 
no depth 
   or meaning...
 

     I have been 
so burdened by 
         the weight
of knowing... 
    knowing their pain
& heartache... 
    knowing the injustice... 
    "I want to hear things about 
you, from you sometimes..."
  he says,
    "Like senseless, 
useless stuff that don't matter,
          but do to you. 
I would like to hear them."

Hmm..  

    Taking time
to be in nature, 

    finding beauty 
in "ordinary" 
        moments... 

finding joy
   in loving 
the ones 
     around me.. 

seeing others
     find their 
passion... 
   getting lost... 
feeling the sun 
     on my skin
and the breeze 
  in my hair... 

    That is how I get by... 

     Finding beauty 
  in simplicity... 

                 in knowing 
that there is good
            in the world

and that peace lives. 




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