Saturday, August 16, 2008

On Falling

People try to figure out problems like me, to draw a diagram of something simple, something we can all understand, so you’ll all understand. So you can say I knew it all along. So you can say “this is your song”. That bird doesn’t sing though. Not songs for you. They asked me to take a pencil and write the last time I felt something, they gave me “safe” and I gave them nothing. I sat there staring; a revelation surrounded by one hundred others. I think some of us are always falling. Like at the start, we were pushed from the nest before life taught us to fly.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Your analogy on falling is inspiring. The only time I have ever considere the falling analogy is the feeling of a lover letting you go, but you don't know how to fly, so you just fall. You feel like you're waiting for the next one to catch you, even though you know you should be flying...

Adrian said...

Thanks believe it or not I actually wrote it in my head halfway through filling out a survey for a psych research group. So some of it is actually literal, and of course it doesn't all come from there but it was defiantly inspired by that. I was asked to write the last time I felt several words, when I came to "safe" i just sat there dumbfounded, not onlu did i have trouble honestly answering it, it was like this big personal insight opened up.