Au revoir, again.

I part with this in mind: The self needs no seeking, what it needs is creating.


Creation comes from nothingness.

The Waste Land

Ah, but even I feel the chill of solitude at times.

Fall out.

I never saw THIS coming. Man, all I wanna do is stay in bed all day with Island In The Sun on loop on my phone. Sheesh, I'm supposed to be the anti-social one who keeps them at arm's length but it seems now I'm the stable centre of gravity. I hope they get over this yarn ball of 'hurt feelings' and be buddies again soon. Just don't make me take sides please. Thought I'd have just the room for myself this week, now I've the whole place to myself *shrug*

Silence upon this moor.

Absolutes approaches mere fantasy.

Drought

All I do these days is pick up a novel, read the first few pages, chuck it by the side of my bed. I'd then feel guilty, reach under my bed for either Rumi, Keats, Ginsberg or the Rubaiyat (whichever I grab first) and read a poem or two. I'm a disgrace. I've left much too many books half-read. Way too many. When will this spell of disinterest end?

"It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. The thoroughly well-informed man--that is the modern ideal. And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value. "

                                                                                                         ~The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde~


Frustrations that paralyzes you is poison.
It breeds self-contempt that lasts too long every time it plagues you.


All this. It makes one question one's realities.
Why torture yourself?
Why conform?


The collective norm is an infinite cruelty.

Raya - I digress.

I take back what I said about Raya here in Melbourne being downright dull. It's FANTASTIC. I particularly enjoyed the Salah Raya at Flagstaff Garden. The food you get at open houses are fantastic too. Never too crowded because people come and go so a crowd never really builds up in one house at a time, which suits me perfect. I thoroughly enjoyed myself today. Today deserves a smiley :) There.

So, Eid Mubarak ! to all my loved ones. I apologize for all my imperfections.