Is there a (joy, melancholy, anger) you want to center?
Lately, everything has felt like a rehearsal. I move through the rooms of my life with a polite distance, touching surfaces but never quite gripping them. I wake up, I drink the coffee, I answer the emails, and I watch the clock hands shave off seconds of a day I barely inhabited. It is a quiet kind of vanishing. i_need_to_feel
I don't want the edited version anymore. I want the friction. I want to feel the ache in my legs after walking until the sun goes down. I want to feel the lump in my throat when a song hits the exact frequency of a memory I thought I’d buried. I want to feel the terrifying, beautiful vulnerability of looking someone in the eye and saying something true, without knowing if they’ll say it back. Is there a (joy, melancholy, anger) you want to center
So, let the rain soak through the coat. Let the bad joke land in a silent room. Let the heart beat fast for no reason other than the fact that it can. I am tired of being a spectator to my own pulse. I am ready to be the storm. I wake up, I drink the coffee, I
I need to feel because feeling is the only proof we have that we aren’t just machines waiting for our parts to wear out. It is the grit in the oyster; it is the spark when the flint hits the stone.