Dear Reader: It's been another whole week and a whole bunch of emotion since my last confession.
One way or another time has been doing a number on me. I must confess that I have never considered time to be my friend. When I was young it seemed like time would drag on in an eternally slow crawl. As a kid I was oh so anxious to grow up and decried the cruelty of how long my childhood was taking.
Somewhere between then and now something changed and time began to move with breakneck speed. Like the cautious adage, it to good to be careful what one wishes for. I grew up and have been fighting time every since. Time seems to inform a lot of what I write about. I confess that too often time creeps into my poetry riding the backs of other topics it will almost always find safe passage past my internal censor. This past week especially, I've thought a lot about time.
The past has been just one aspect of this time obsession. It has been a series of recent events that has reminded me all too well of a part of my childhood that I was anxious to leave behind. I confess that I was not prepared and may never be prepared to deal with the combined feelings of anger and hurt that I am reminded of. This is something I had fairly well buried, walled off and stepped back from.
The surprise recurrence of these feelings manifests itself in several ways. Anxiety, lower self-esteem, and anger are just a few of the readily identifiable ways it has impacted me. I confess that a big part of the frustration is that I seemed unable to control how any of this unfolded.
I confess that this resurgence of residual feelings from childhood at this time clearly means that growing up is not an escape route. Two other things that have plagued me because of this, battling to keep writing recently from sounding like teenage angst, and speculating every day how old I will live to be. Both which seem to fail the test of proactive ways to spend time.
But enough of this! Tonight is the All-Star game. I'm ready for the National League to win!
May each of you have a winning week too!
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