Saturday, July 26, 2008

comfort or reality?

As of late, I've come to find little solace in the things I used to, whether it's going out with friends to see a new local band play, or simply "hanging out" which used to fill me up with social goodness. But in recent weeks, months even, I've found that not only am I not tempted to go out and do these things, but I'm also feeling a sort of separation from those I once found that I had so much in common with. I feel...different somehow. Now, not by any means is this a negative feeling, or a blurb from me so that I can convey how down-trodden and depressed I am....it's just a confession that I'm not feeling like myself, I'm feel a change or a shift almost in my personality. I still love the same things and the same people but I don't feel like I need to be immersed in the usual things 24/7. To me, the past week has brought about the realization that with my summer every few days, I'd rather skip going out on the town and doing something eventful and instead stay up until one in the morning snuggled in my fleece blanket, drinking tea and eating hot cereal whilst letting my favorite cheesy chick flicks roll [i.e. The Holiday]. There are however a couple of problems with this somewhat unrealistic type of life but those problems would probably haunt me no matter what I did. See, if I kept going about my quickly disappearing summer by staying in, and pretending that these movies are relating to my life somehow, thoughts of what I need to do, or what's not happening in my life would still get to me. And if I was out, doing the things I needed to be, I would somehow feel that sort of emptiness why other things in my life weren't happening. This isn't altogether unhappiness, although it may seem that way, it's more of the fact that at the moment I'm stuck in a rut.
And for once, I don't really know what I can do to get out of it. So...maybe....in a way, it's not up to me to get out of this "stuck" place, but perhaps it's up to those that might enter my life and help me change the way things are.
I'm hopeful that something like this will happen, but for now, it's hot cereal, tea, and movies until I can figure out what to do next with these passing days of freedom.

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