How have you been?
Such an open-ended question. An invitation of sorts - to reply, "I've been good." But that moment before those words materialize, do we hesitate to answer? Truthfully. Comma. There's a world of thoughts I want to impart.
I'm a 20-something dreamer, wanderer.
Truthfully, we're all a little lost. But to calm your fears, and any of mine; "I've been good."
We have the world before us and enough of a past to say we've lived a bit of life. Enough to know there's still so much more and enough to understand. That life is fleeting and moments are eternal. Life thus far - a bit of yours, a bit of mine. Overlapping dreams and memories. Paths don't really cross. They meld into this existence, this consciousness.
How have you been?
A loaded question. A simple answer. There's a bit of truth behind "I've been good,"
Because we're living, pushing forward, struggling, carrying on.
We've lived enough to know that we've grown into our likes and dislikes. We have a better understanding of what we want from life, from others, from today. Compartmentalize. Pressing, urgent with mundane, yet necessary. Work for today, and thoughts for tomorrow. Work, food, sleep. Love and happiness.
Let's spend some time,
Missing who we were - when the things we knew to be true, came so much more simply. What is good and right - what is wrong and destructive.
We have vices now - questions of morality and values. We are less, and more. Ignorance is bliss, but we've become ourselves with anger, sorrow, peace, and joys.
Grateful for knowing that even though things are less complicated than we make them out to be - that the reason we worry, is because we care.
Tottering between yes and no - I hope for the best. Not old enough to be cynical and not young enough to be naive. Here's to life. To me, to you.
Love, life, happiness,
Tc
