Just seeing these small, second-ridden things makes me enwrap the futility of it all. Take a tiny example-all those plates and pans and cutlery items. U drop them, u break them, u use them and have to wash them. If u have 5 cups or smth, why not use all 5 to crack the egg and separate it. And then, there’s so much time wasted, and nerves and deception…with life and with self. The question’s ticking in there: was this all I was meant to do? Cook a meal everyday, wash all these plates again and again…get back in bed and watch others get out of their homes, to whatever use that happens. Me…as a crumpled spectator, moving within a mere 10 square metre surface, hours vanishing like crazy when I ponder at their slowness. Here I am, identical, 5 years later. I didn’t take that trip to Machu-Pichu. I didn’t cross Europe by train. I didn’t try another major in something I thought I’d like. Heck, I didn’t even bother to go buy the newspaper and revisit the old swings on the boulevard. By the end of each sentence, 5 more years pass, in a swirl of foggy unawareness. So many similar moments, sensations and locations have rendered all my breathing buds stale. At times, it feels as if I’m a mere slim, undulated stalk, like a delicate plant. But that’s not the complete picture of it. So, I’m this linear tracing, all muffled up in layers upon layers of wrinkled, faded, essence-emptied bark. And this keeps peeling off, most painfully in times of uselessness as these; and such aches embrace me that I no longer wish to stare my element in the eye. I only wish to close mine and sail to fairer planes, where I am a strong, richly coloured and endowed bark, merry and alive! When I wake up, I sink into a grey, heavy doze. And from that on, I wake up even harder and more tired than ever.
