This might be an interesting little ditty for ya: the fact that I am even in this crappy ass airport about to get on this 2 day hell ride seems at once both completely shocking and definitively inevitable to me in a wholly simultaneous and equal measure. The other day I was attending a wedding just outside of Vancouver as a plus one of a family that really, I'd just met. A week before that I was driving down the Western coastline of my great nation, precisely a year of college, with a knot of anticipation in my stomach. Two weeks before that I was in Uruguay, visiting my family, without a fucking clue as to what was going to happen in my immediate future, when my time there was up. Crossing borders, immigration officers will ask me what I do, where I live, and it's all become so convoluted and complex.
I have no job, no home, no concrete plans. I buy my tickets, make my decisions always within days of the action. These incessant changes in plans and space and time, they are my place, my occupation, so natural they roll fluidly over me. Now I'm going to Australia and the logistics are terrifying and its so damned far away from all these people and things in my heart. I feel like I was cornered really, had no choice in the matter. But in my gut I know that it's right impulsively, instinctively, and paradoxically that gives me an enormous sense of control and well-being. This is the most romantic thing I've ever done and I can't help myself from doing it. I don't have any grasp on much of anything anymore, no notion of home, or path, or even of the absurd or the ridiculous because I have love and it's what I want and it drives me. I feel so terrifically, emphatically alive.
You are undoubtedly and unbelievably free.
ReplyDeleteI love you boo boo; please be safe.