Mar 03, 2009 00:49
Last weekend so many worlds collided and I was catapulted forwards and backwards at the same time and I spent the rest of the week peeling the hot pink nail polish off my nails and thinking about people and relationships and how we're all connected and disjointed and part of something much bigger (I just accidentally typed better...maybe that's the right word) than ourselves.
I'm talking about the things between people. About the friendships and relationships and the things that hold us together in all this chaos. I'm thinking about how complicated they are but how natural they feel. I'm thinking about what they're made of and what they're worth and why.
The universe is expanding and we're all just hanging here. Take away the planet earth and the car we drive and the shoes we wear and traffic lights we stop atand everything else and imagine each of us floating with all the rest of elements of the universe. You know...like stars. We're all just hanging here and gravity has given way and we're left with the ties that hold us together. Ties of love and passion and interest and experience.
We can't escape the ties. We get angry or our heart breaks or we just lose touch, but no matter what happens, our ties are usually stronger than we are. The things between us--the things that hold us together--well, they never really break. That's why I don't think it's possible to lose love. And why I don't think it's possible to love without getting love in return. And why try as we might to run away, our past never really escapes us.
We're just hanging. By thin threads. Tugging on each other. And all we want to do is feel that pull.
That's why we keep going back for more.