I have been looking into myself this past month.
After a few weeks of dedication to the task, I have come upon something a little troubling: a well of deep sadness. Not a deep well of sadness, either but very much a well of profound sadness.
It’s hard to admit that this is the result of decluttering my heart and clearing my mind.
But I should have known. I have reached here before, I have come across this precipice and turned my back to it, preferring a mellower life and sweet, honeysuckle days. But whatever I do, I ultimately return to it. Whatever paths I take in life, when it matters most, it is this silent force I encounter.
Should I continue running, turning from it ? Perhaps I can avoid it all my life?
Bu really, what else is there to do but accept it?
This sadness, it’s not fun. It’s not exciting and definitely not what I want. But it’s true. It’s authentic.
And so, it deeply characterises me. I’ve been writing about it, scratching its surface, knocking its door for a long time now. And I think it’s time. I have enough strength that now I can choose a true sadness over a distracting joy. I’ve reached a point now where I can accept whatever this sadness says about me.
I suspect it’s a lot of grief for the world, an idealist’s mourning of injustice. But perhaps there is regret too, resentment.
But I must go there. I must face myself, I must accept who I am, whoever that is. It is the only way, the true way.
I would be lying if I said I was unafraid, if I wasn’t clinging onto old joys, onto materialism and comforting clutter— all those things, really, that I turned to so I could avoid facing that sadness.
I am so scared of losing myself. It is so difficult to surrender, to let these waves of change carry me away —or worse yet—to let them wash over me, carrying away the parts of me they want, keeping the parts they want.
And yet,tremulous as my heart is, it feels right. My heart can stand up to this.
Every path has led to this. Every crossroads, every person I have met, every event and non-event, every stranger I have ever wondered about, every 2 a.m, every night I shivered on the balcony.
Every turn in life has led here. If I back out now, I lose myself again. I wander, no, I err again, uncertain to my core. I drown again in shallowness, chasing moments of infinity forever.
All I fear is touching an energy too raw for me to handle, of stumbling on an emotion too close to my heart.
But wells run deep, I tell myself. Their depths do not spring out of nowhere. It means that as long as I follow this sadness, I get closer to myself.
Listening to:
Young Adult, Old Soul 
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