Numbness of Life

 

"I guess I should have reacted the way most of the other girls were, but I couldn't get myself to react. I felt very still and very empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo."

Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

How often we become so immune to the others sufferings and circumstances, in the hustle bustle of life, job and everything, we all at one point of time become so hardened.

Uncharted Waters

 “The one who falls and gets up is stronger than the one who never tried. Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.”― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

Feelings

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

~Marilyn Monroe

Slow, but Sweet

Slow, soulful living is all about coming back to your truth, the only guidance you’ll ever need. When you rush, you have the tendency to follow others. When you bring in mindfulness, you have the power to align with yourself.

Kris Franken, The Call of Intuition

 

There lies sweetness in the slowness of being. That lazy morning on a weekend might be the best way to recharge our minds. With each passing day, a layer of complexity adds to out lives, one more day of interactions, experiences, wellness and trauma. All adds to this unending pot of memories. Some are happening and some are frustrating. Each day is that way, a fleeting fragments of memories that adds in our lives.

Slowing down occasionally is a sweet thing. 

Yesteryears

The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.

Amy Bloom, Away

Floating Clouds

There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.

Virginia Woolf, The Waves 

Standing tall on a rooftop