A List of Somethings
Who knows how this goes 🤷‍♂️🚧
For better or worse, here’s the list that I have of “somethings” in our way.
1. The thing about money is it comes and goes. Even the best effort may mean you still don’t control it. So it could be treated differently. That’s something.
2. The supposed “lack of time.” Maybe it’s not about waiting to have enough time to do something… but actually about not doing stupid things with your time. Because (without stupid things) we then have the time back that we thought we were missing. That’s something.
Well, would we be stupidly engaging… or just escapist? Escapism is better, I think.
3. The loss of connection — the loss of innocence. We’re all dealing with that. Dealing with it — on different days, in different ways.
4. Then… that feeling that’s something else in particular. That feeling that we’re missing something.
Ok, well there’s a fine line between being ambitious… and falling for something.
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Gabriel Shames
I’m an east coast American, interested in writing poetry and fiction as long as I can remember. I took a test in 4th grade where they told me I wrote creatively at a college level!
Hope you enjoy reading as much I as I do creating ❣️
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Jumped into this one because the title caught my eye...oftentimes i find 'escape' in making lists...this idea of the fine line between nothing and something was nice to be reminded of this morning. Thanks for sharing and look forward to reading more of your writing.
I battle with the loss of connection on a daily basis.