The small comforts in life. These seem to be over whelming to me in these few days I've been back in Denver. It is amazing how much the smell of another person is something I didn't realize I missed so much. That sweet sent that is their own, some part detergent, some part soap, and then the sent that makes them, them, just like a finger print, none the same. It makes me think a little differently about the movie Perfume, if only we could just bottle a persons sent to have it, to smell in when feeling so desperately unloved, lonely.
These people we smell and remember are of such importance. Just as the comfort of knowing what color the dryer lint will be. I've been pondering the world of great loses, everyone goes through it, some more ignorant then others but isn't it all the same. My good friend Danielle always told me that the pain I feel is equivalent to the pain others feel, even though to my eye it couldn't be the same. Then I look at people who have lost greater then I have, and it makes me think I have no right to think about my pain. Where does this all play? Where does the line start and end? What should we say and do.
I find that I can't exist around people unless they know who I am, what I think, what I feel, what really adds up to me. I go through mass scales of ups to downs. Most enjoy sharing ups, triumphs, the joys in a persons life. But then we aren't suppose to share the downs. These things say we are having a pity party, owe poor me. I guess when I share these things it is for a tool purpose. I think people should know why. Why do I look sad? It concerns me more that you don't want to know, or perhaps you didn't even notice.
I don't know, but my laundry is done!
Thursday, May 15, 2008
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Wow. You are beautiful in every way. This was a lovely well written post. I was just telling someone about Danielle yesterday. I love that you're dryer lint is green.
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