Monday, September 19, 2011

the Labyrinth

I follow the following:
http://labyrinthchronicles.wordpress.com/

I was down in the past couple of weeks. It didn't start out of blue, I had my reasons, I always have reasons to feel down. We all do.

I came across to the link above yesterday afternoon, I was tired, confused and pretty much lost as usual. Read the chronicle 2. Felt much better and way more grounded afterwards.

The author is a psychologist, a rather unorthodox one I believe. He asks one simple question: "Where are you?" When you feel down, so lost, so disconnected from all around, sad, miserably sad, sad enough to think of doing stupid stuff..or letting stupid stuff happen to you..

Where are you?


He asks and you shall answer. At home. Alone. Smoked too many cigarettes and drank too much wine. With a terrible headache. Staring at old pictures. In the land of loneliness. In the land of undervalued good souls. In the land of arrogant ducks. In a trap. In Love. Out of Love. Confused about how to turn my life around. Confused that I dont wanna do anything to turn my life around. In the land of 'I want to sleep while life passes by'. At the bay of wishes wishes.. At the corner of 'Just need hope that it is gonna be alright'. Wherever, wherever you are. Keep on answering.
It revealed a lot for me, I saw what I was actually feeling once the fog of composite emotions had dissolved. I saw where I was. That is a good thing. That is the opposite of lost. That is the opposite of floating in the wind of too many emotions yet you cant even see the direction they are coming from or taking you. That is feeling grounded for me.
It might not be the place where you wanna be. Not yet. But knowing where you are, if you are half as good as me in reading maps, you can always find your way back home.

Btw, the Norwegian girls I met on Friday, I am terribly terribly sorry that I gave you the wrong directions to the Piazza, when I realized, it was too late, I ran back hoping to find you but you were already gone and my ice cream was melting. I really needed that ice cream.

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