When was the last
time you cried?
Have you blocked it out? Have you
never? Or at least it’s nothing you’d admit to?
However, can you recall the last
time you smiled? When you laughed last?
I think to some extent we all hope
and pray for a life less ordinary, not thinking as we do that less ordinary may
not always be positive. We crave action, adventure, love, lust, passion, fame,
fortune…All the while thinking that when we get them it will ultimately lead to
satisfaction, the satiating of some primal thirst, our idea of happiness.
After some thought, I think that
this might be a misguided way to demand drama, to call for misfortune. The most
troubling piece of the human condition is its addiction to fickleness. We are
junkies for stimulation and agitation. We are quick to leave what’s comfortable
and content for the mere empty promise of a thrill. When that thrill fails us,
we are then left cowering with regret.
Again, when was the last time you
cried?
Was it because
of someone else? Perhaps it was. Even so, it likely in no small measure the indirect
terminus of decisions that you yourself made. Decisions that came about because
you weren’t happy to begin with, you shunned contentment and went out on your
own, with the name of exploration on your lips, but perchance something very
different in your heart.
Remember this
the next time you feel that phantom of the rambler try and take your hand. Seeking
you when times are not necessarily bad, but even simply the mundane. It will
whisper that things can be more exciting elsewhere. It pours lies into your
waiting ears, making you forget that what you now have was at one point
everything you ever wanted. And maybe still is.
The person that
seeks respite from a life without trouble will undoubtedly find it.. It’s an
unfortunate fact that we have to take the bad with the good, otherwise the good
would be the mundane, and become lost in the everyday. Recall that whether
great, horrible, or indifferent, all the times of your life matter. In an
incalculable and cosmic way, the sum is greater than the parts.
There, now you’ve
cried for the last time.
