Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009 9:41 p.m.
happy weirdo
Oh my gosh, sometimes I just feel things so much. I'm filled with feeling...or more rightly, filled with sensing. Knowing things, sensing things, being filled with fullness and lightness of emotion.
There's a book called unbearable lightness of being - I read it once, but seem to have completely forgotten it entirely except for a random scene here or there - and while I don't know what the book was talking about, I like the words in the title.
Unbearable lightness of being.
That's a perfect description of this.
Overcome with the sense that everything is right. That it all has purpose. That our petty daily concerns are truly meaningless.
A big picture exists. I know it. Something exists. There is an order to it all. Far beyond my capacity; far beyond mankind's capacity. We may never be able to prove, but there are small glimpses and experiences into what we can't comprehend.
I have never been good at words, though I strive to express myself through them. But I have been good at feeling. I've lived large chunks of my life suppressing those feelings, yet feeling them nevertheless.
I don't know what this passion is for, but I know that I have it. It's not a passion to be alive, but passion to have knowledge...and as far as I know, one must be alive in order to obtain knowledge.
But if we can continue to obtain knowledge in the unknown of death, then whenever it ends up coming, I believe I am ready for the adventure...and I hope I go gracefully and bravely into it.
How do I express what I feel right now, to keep it from bursting out of me? I am home alone, as usual, no K to make love to. I think: 1) classical music, to involve my senses. 2) wine, to help me feel it more. 3) cut my own hair, for adventure and something new and to feel unrestrained and possibly beautiful. 4) do some math problems, to have a glimpse whatever it is that is beyond us.
sigh. sometimes I'm content being a weirdo. at least I'm a happy weirdo.
Thursday, Aug. 03, 2017 - hello?Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014 - strange dream
Monday, Oct. 06, 2014 - catholic and friends
Thursday, Sept. 04, 2014 - changing. and I need to go to bed.
Saturday, Aug. 30, 2014 - dreams of dying
Chapters of My Life
Motherhood
Sept. 2011 - now Being a mother.
Isolation&Infertility (&pregnancy)
Aug. 2009 - Sept. 2011 Working from home in a job that I love...that comes with a loneliness I hate. A husband who works too much, and continued failure to start a family. Slowly spiraling, forgotten, into social invisibility. Accepting and experiencing the potential of pregnancy.
First-Year Teacher
Aug. 2008 - Aug. 2009. pretty much the hardest job I hope I ever have. and all the while trying not to admit my secret turmoil over longings for/attempts at/failure to produce what's supposedly supposed to come after love and then marriage...
Optimism
Aug. 2007 - Aug. 2008. finally accepting that becoming a normal grown up is not just inevitable, but preferable. better job situations for both of us. working freelance as a studio teacher, and becoming an egg donor.
Fading Dreams...
Dec. 2006 - July 2007. student teaching, being poor, consistent job rejections, trying to save face while feeling hopeless.
To Live a Life Worth Death...
July 2006 - Nov. 2006. thinking about death a lot, accepting life and my eventual end. career and passions - beginning the path of contribution to what I will leave behind...
Identity Crisis/Marriage
Oct. 2005 - Apr. 2006. new job. new career. new last name. new husband. new life. who was I and what was I becoming?
The Official End to Childhood? II
June 2005 - Sept. 2005. preparing for a life that still felt like pretend. was I really a 'grown-up' already? weird.
The Official End to Childhood? I
Feb. 2005 - June 2005. losing my virginity, getting engaged, changing my career, selling our childhood home...slowly losing everything that held me as a child... (Meet Mr. Mom 4/05 - 5/05. working/travelling on production of my 4th & LAST reality show ever.)
Quarter-Life Crisis/Unemployment
Sept. 2004 - Feb 2005. no steady job for 5 months - definitely not a good place to be. oh, and I fell in love - which is a good place to be, but it kind of only adds to the confusion.
Postlude to the Prelude
Apr. 2004 - May 2004. I had no clue what things were being set in motion...but everything has changed from there.
The Simple Life 2
Mar. 2004-Apr. 2004. not the deepest thinking period of my life, but I learned a heck of a lot about production of a reality tv show.
L.A. #2 - The Real World
Aug. 2003-Feb. 2004.the big move. transplanting my life. ironically not only working in the "real world", but also AT the company that makes The Real World.
That Weird, Here Nor There, Summer
May 2003-Aug. 2003. a college graduate, but not yet in the grown-up world. just existing. and waiting. and thinking.
Goodbye College
Jan. 2003-May 2003. it's a weird thing, the last semester of college. lots of thinking about what lies beyond.
The Semester From Hell
Aug. 2002-Dec. 2002. it was kind of like I tried to cram 4 yrs. of growing-up experiences into one semester.
I've Changed?
Apr. 2002-Aug. 2002. after L.A. and stuck right in-between the two most intense "finding-myself" semesters of my life!
L.A. #1 - Interning/Discovering
Jan. 2002 - Apr. 2002. I finally stepped WAY outside my comfort zone and went where I had no freakin idea what I was doing. Living outside your bubble for awhile really makes you see differently.
Beginnings/Depression
Aug. 2001-Jan. 2002. who I was, and sometimes who I still am. how it started and how it was before.