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Thursday, August 19, 2010

L'illusion du bonheur

My depth perception has been off for quite some time now,
I've lost one dimension to my mind's landscape and I'm no longer afraid of the visions in my head:
blurred hazy images with nothing distinct about them,
Scraps of memories that will be crushed down until their tiniest remnants
That's all they are and all will ever be
...and who knows,
this might be after all the so awaited illusion du bonheur.

Friday, August 06, 2010

I'm sure I used to be so free...

Sometimes words hold onto your mind, so magical and gripping...black sparkling words in thick ink. They could have been there for as long as you remember, laying in the folds of some book on your dusty shelf, but they always went unnoticed, overlooked words that could never work their way into your brain.
One day, however, it suddenly occurs to you to reach out and grab that very book you once deemed dull and brain-numbing; you start flicking hastily through the first pages, when by some astounding contingencies, you stumble upon one of those sentences that seem to hit too close to home for you, a sentence that captures all your emotions at the moment; as if words has been devoid of any form of "polysematicism" and were set on deciphering your thoughts.
You just stand there bewildered, enraptured before their capacity to dig deep into the your mind and draw so accurately what's on it: Your thoughts have been entangled for you, your emotions "unblurred" and the gears of your brain oiled so much you could almost feel them spinning smoothly inside your skull.

...Tonight my mind is unusually clear

I'm falling in love with words again, it is as if I'm reading each one of them for the first time.
I'm feeling like a newborn, willing to embrace a new outlook on life and go through all that it has to offer with a cleansed spirit and a regenerated hope. As with words, I want to discover a new meaning to existence and believe that everything will someday, somehow start to make sense.
I'm not expecting to squeeze anything extraordinary out of this world, nor am I waiting for a fairy godmother to come and turn the pumpkin into a glossy golden coach: there will always be more aspects to life than one can ever wrap his head around, and to claim total mastery over its twists and turns would be sheer nuttiness; I only want to hold onto hopes and believe in brighter days ahead without having my practicality overshadowed in the process and I don't think life as cruel as to begrudge me my right to dream .

For one moment
I wish you'd hold your stage
With no feelings at all
Open minded
I'm sure I used to be so free...
There's this one Muse song I've been OBSESSED with for almost a week now. I can listen to it for eight times in a row, and feel it everytime pulling a string in my heart.
I love its well combined shifts and how it has a bit too quick start to it but flows out to a a really nice piano section in the end.
Here it is everyone, plug in your headphones and enjoy!!
* The title of this post is inspired by the song lyrics.

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Like a breezy summer morning...

Elle était enfin devenue elle-même, ancrée à cette surface rigide qu'est la terre , pragmatique, réonciliant rationalité et fantasme. Elle en a eu assez de traîner ses pensées en bandoulière et de ne plus apprécier la joie des plaisirs simples qui autrefois l'enchantaient et l'emplissaient d'un sentiment d'exaltation candide et profond.
Elle voulait échapper à cette platitude imminente qui la guettait si vicieuse et si maligne, se défaire de cette tranquilité pernicieuse et ne plus avoir à se gaver de ce bonheur insipide. Elle avait toujours eu tendance à anticiper les événements et se délectait de pouvoir ôter aux faits un peu de leur rigidité et de dévier d'une trajectoire qu'elle croyait scellée et immuable, quoique l'anticipation n'a jamais fait son bonheur. Elle s'y adonnait comme à un jeu de pouvoir, un affrontement douloureux dont elle sortait à chaque fois triste et abbatue.
Parfois lorsque je la surprenais à rêvasser la tête dans les étoiles, j'avais envie de la secouer si fort, l'arrâcher à ce cocon tendre et protecteur qu'elle s'est construite au fil des ans. Mais comme à chaque fois, j'avais peur de détruire ces idéaux qu'elle chérissait tant et dont elle nourissait son âme éprise de parfait et d'absolu. J'avais peur de lui refuser l'accès au seul monde où elle pouvait prendre refuge.
Elle m'avouait par moments qu'elle ne savait plus trop se qu'elle voulait ni quoi penser . Elle se contredisait, se parjurait, plaidant à chaque fois une nouvelle cause, clamant que tout autour d'elle est en train de changer et qu'elle même ne se reconnait plus.
Aussi finissais-je toujours par la laisser décider de ce qu'elle voulait faire, l'abandonnant à ses jugements altérés et ses raisonnements décousus, priant pour que le peu de lucidité dont elle pouvait éventuellement se prévaloir ne l'abandonne pas à mi-chemin.
Je m'obstinais à croire en elle et à lui faire confiance. Je voulais qu'elle assume pleinement la portée de ses actes, qu'elle cesse d'avoir peur sans rime ni raison et de se lamenter sur des circonstances immuables échappant totalement à son emprise.
Je la voyais souvent animée d'une fougue juvénile, fantasmée et gavée d'illusion; C'est dans ces moments là qu'emportée par un élan d'émotivité frôlant le délire, elle m'affirmait ne s'être jamais senti aussi heureuse de toute sa vie, qu'elle se sentait libérée de toutes ses angoisses et appréhensions, et que celà ne la surprendrait pas de voir sa langue se délier devant un inconnu et de se retrouver à déverser tout ce qui traverserait son esprit dans la plénitude de l'instant.
Ainsi, basculant entre amertume et exaltation, conformisme et rébellion, rationalité et fantasme; elle est en moi...elle est moi et constitue mon être.

"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal"
-Albert Camus-

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Marzycielski

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I tried to let go of the reins. To stop pondering things for a while and not to give them a second thought.
So many times I tried to pen down these insomnia induced thoughts, but I felt that words alone would do them no justice. I could not think of any proper means to muffle the voice of my soul. I refrained myself from any outward expression thinking this would only amplify how I felt at that time.
Writing things down gives me power upon my thoughts: I can disguise them, distort the meaning behind them and keep a lot of their intentions under wraps. But it felt like something was stuck in my throat of late, like having this big urge to write without being able to: words seemed to be melting into some kind of stringent indefiniteness whenever I tried to take grip on them. I've come even to ask myself if there mightn’t be some kind of subconscious power interfering with my conscious self that prevents me from giving these mingling emotions an outlet they so crave!
Thus, instead of looking desperately for “active” means of possible outer relief , I considered indulging myself in passive leisure for a while, an opportunity to bask in sheer reading pleasure that never fails to enchant me and revive my senses whenever I'm on the verge of numbness.

I realized I just needed to immmerse myself in some imaginary world, a fictitious story whose characters I can identify with and whose emotions I can relate to, an illusiory reality where the outer world would cease to exist and where I'd be immune to the vicissitudes of my petty existence; and I can only reach this state of serenity and inner contentment through reading.
Words alone have the power to make every preoccupying matter dwindle to smaller proportions. I feel that their meanings carry all the power and magnificience I need to experience and I know that some of this magic is being conveyed to me by the mere act of reading.
Books also inspire me to write whenever I'm lacking inspiration. They make me believe that everything deserves to be transcribed; that the slightest perceptible feeling, the most unexpected insight carries a message for us and is worth being remembered.

I know I tend to feel things too intensely at times that my heart starts racing and pounding like it might jump out of my chest, but I know as well that I can survive the burst of emotions within me. My heart may be lacking the space to contain them all but my mind will always find means of eventual evacuation.
My cutting words and hasty answers reassure me of my own sanity, they are the shield I won't drop unless granted safety. That's what I am, Sometimes just striving to have a normal reaction or to repress emotions showing up at completely inappropriate times. I may be acutely conscious of the absurdity of my feelings, but they'll still be here, welling up within me, invading the serenity of my soul, and threatening to make my face crumple into some conspicuously ill-bred expression.

Guess what I'm doing right now? I'm trying to be "normal"... by my own standards :)
What is blaring in my ears: