The future starts tomorrow. Although, that sounds like procrastination. The future starts in a minute. Or why would we even accuse the clock of inducing our actions? Loneliness, laziness, warmth, hope: those are our motivators. Yet there is also the fact that we want to avoid a repeat of being deceived, disappointed and hurt. And there is the opinion of the people around us that matters, whether it is family, friends or lovers who influence us. The hidden feelings behind our walls of normal life.
We shouldn’t forget to take care of our brains. It’s something you have to do yourself, not a task you can assign to a butler. It is your library of knowledge and memory. To save the parts you want to keep and delete the facts you’d rather deny, you need to create order in that storm of thoughts.
Thanks to imagination, boredom can be relieved and fear overcome. Imagining that we transform into someone else, we can pull off acts that are too out of character for anyone close to us to believe. Even when night falls and we’re trembling as we think of what we have done, we can hope for enough madness to save us from dark thoughts. Yet it is also important that the long days of changing your mind don’t isolate you too much, because eventually that will make the desire for things you can’t have get so strong it can break you. All that is left then is to retire in a beautiful place and fight isolation with peaceful solitude, until you’re ready to face the world again. Friendships will be lost, but new ones will begin, and there is the promise of creating new wonders in so many possible ways. And then we can simply hope they pay off.
Congratulations if you made your way through all my drabbles for this challenge. I realise this last one isn’t the most catchy, but you try and distill the essence of 29 drabbles into one and we’ll talk again ;)
[Day 29]
[All my drabbles for this challenge can be found on this page.]
