coma victim

[unclaimed555]

with every experience you have you become slightly more desensitized.
the first hurt worse than the second.
the second worse than the third.
if life continues in this manner,
repeating the cycles again and again,
will you eventually feel nothing at all?
experience pain
and the pain becomes less and less.
the longer you are priveledged with love
the more you take it for granted.
it seems then, that the winning combination for life is a little of both.
never letting either get ahead of the other.
the problem that then presents itself,
is that during periods of hurt you can't wait for them to be over,
and it seems to last a lifetime...
during the periods of love
you wish it would last forever,
but before you can exhale
it disappears...
i wonder sometimes,
if this is why elderly people commonly seem so melancholy?
they spend their days remembering the feelings they had in the past,
and in their desensitized state,
they can only remember the happy times
not experience them.
what used to be a stream of raw emotion
is now a pinpoint of sadness
and all you have to look forward to is sleep.