26. Attention is a word
which we all deserve at some point in our lives.
which we all deserve at some point in our lives.
that we all hate and yet we go about our usual business — half-pretending to be paying attention and half-wishing to be back home smothered with that unadulterated love that is our beds.
if work is word,
then
work is not love.
work is not evil.
work is not money.
work is not pleasure.
work is not pain.
work is not existence.
tell this to Gregor: come out now, there is no need to fear a word or the thump at the door.
there is no need for alarm clocks or trains and buses either.
maybe Gregor can try being something else, a humming bird if he wants.
there is no need to sew, to add up the random numerals , to reproach enormity .
there is only milk plus butter, all the time. unless they too are words?
which describes how you feel right now. No longer the eager beaver that sways with his every whim, you have learned the subtle art of balance. You have learned, finally, to detach yourself from the powerful pull of his gravity and instead create your very own, equally powerful gravity which repels his. Work seems easier, and enjoyable. Extended periods of separation? In his own words, it’s nothing like you can’t handle. In a manner of saying, you have regained which you have lost all this time — your life.
Context ~
A snooty freshman starts calling you indecent, starts claiming that your readings (you know, the ones you painstakingly compiled to the point of insanity) are both
Limiting
and, let’s not forget,
Limited.
Introspection ~
you begin you to realize how much power you unwittingly have.
Cinco anyone?
xoxo
the “indecent” instructor
Indecent is a word that one’s partner may substitute with “you are never fully clothed.” For example, in a thoroughly planned proposition to show one’s partner’s mother your room via webcam, one may say “I can put on the webcam and show her my room. Do not worry, I will be fully clothed.” One’s partner may then mischievously say, “but you are never fully clothed,” in order to brilliantly tiptoe around one’s feelings because relationships are fragile and tiptoeing is the smarter option. That is, if the partner knows what’s good for him.
can’t help but read your life into it. =p
Sophia 4:52 am on April 28, 2010 Permalink |
Attention is a word
That I am excessively craving.
An Attention Whore –
That’s what I am.