Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Distinctions (If I May)

Aloneness, not to be mistaken with Loneliness. Aloneness is welcome, satisfying, much needed. It cures irrationalities, spells of ill will. Loneliness looms and hovers heavily all around, and never leaves too soon. It brings darkness in the form of degrees of unreasonable self-doubt.

Forgiveness and Acceptance, to be distinguished from Forgetting and Apathy. One may learn to accept hurtful transgressions of days past, but I learn each day that, as indelible memories, such transgressions will forever shape and affect how one will think and feel about certain situations, how one will respond and relate to others.

2 comments:

David said...

So the aloneness paragraph is your way of saying that my family has driven you crazy enough that you want to be alone so bad that you are blogging about it?

L said...

i am lonely for my family...