Leaving the skin of life behind...
Stole this quote from between_names. (Uh, yeah, thanks Kyla for correcting me. Apparently I'm completely more braindead than I thought I was and can't read. I completely thought that post was i_amthecosmos until you corrected me! Gah...I need sleep).
"One natural effect of life is to cover you in a thin layer of...all the things you've done and been and said and erred at. But you are under it, and for a long time, and only rarely do you know it, except that for some unexpected reason or opportunity you come out, for an hour or even a moment, and you suddenly feel pretty good. And in that magical instant you realize how long it's been since you felt just that way.....Only suddenly, then, you are out of it, that film, that skin of life, as when you were a kid. And you think: this must've been the way it was once in my life, though you didn't know it then, and you don't even really remember it, a feeling of wind on your cheeks and your arms, of being released, let loose. And since that is not how it has been for a long time, you want, this time, to make it last, this glistening one moment, this cool air, this new living, so that you can preserve a feeling of it, inasmuch as when it comes again it may just be too late. And in truth, of course, this may be the last time you will ever feel this way again" ~Richard Ford
I kind of love those moments. Those free, wind-in-your-hair kind of moments. Too bad they never seem to last as long as we'd like. Now that I'm up to my eyeballs in the most intense, extreme amount of work I've ever experienced, it's so easy to lose myself in it and start feeling like I'll never have those moments again. But I will. We all do.
"One natural effect of life is to cover you in a thin layer of...all the things you've done and been and said and erred at. But you are under it, and for a long time, and only rarely do you know it, except that for some unexpected reason or opportunity you come out, for an hour or even a moment, and you suddenly feel pretty good. And in that magical instant you realize how long it's been since you felt just that way.....Only suddenly, then, you are out of it, that film, that skin of life, as when you were a kid. And you think: this must've been the way it was once in my life, though you didn't know it then, and you don't even really remember it, a feeling of wind on your cheeks and your arms, of being released, let loose. And since that is not how it has been for a long time, you want, this time, to make it last, this glistening one moment, this cool air, this new living, so that you can preserve a feeling of it, inasmuch as when it comes again it may just be too late. And in truth, of course, this may be the last time you will ever feel this way again" ~Richard Ford
I kind of love those moments. Those free, wind-in-your-hair kind of moments. Too bad they never seem to last as long as we'd like. Now that I'm up to my eyeballs in the most intense, extreme amount of work I've ever experienced, it's so easy to lose myself in it and start feeling like I'll never have those moments again. But I will. We all do.