we can cross rivers with our will

Usually these photographs that I post are an abstract image that I find captivating, an image that I think is "cool"- whereas this image is a literal depiction of my state of mind.



Off-kilter. Off-balance. Twisted and tumbled over.

I know this from certain tendencies. Eating the same foods over and over. Whenever my brother was feeling this way, that was the time that certain foods populated our refrigerator. Dozens of vanilla yogurts, a bunch of poppy-seed bagels, whatever made the chemical connection that united mood with taste buds was plentiful in our household.

I haven't listened to music in a week and a half. I always vacillate between listening to primarily podcasts or music. I'm in the podcast mood because music access a too raw and primal set of emotions. Podcasts are comforting and clinical- dispensing stories, information, or hilarity- I can choose the conversation I want, I can choose the company I keep.

I'm being irrational. I don't want to say it aloud because speaking words breathes life into it. So rather I will type. I'm allowing the demon of my past rear his ugly head. The victim is not a comfortable role for me to play, usually an awkward and cumbersome fit, yet for some reason I'm slipping into it comfortably. The devil's dance that I entertained for three years left more scars that I realize, scars that manifest themselves more prominently in the face of a relationship with the opposite of everything I have known. Time to rewrite my emotional neurons.

I know I will climb out of this.