unreflectedsoul

Back to basics

When life complicates...When life overwhelms...When life just seems to have a sense of humour you don't share...just remember there are still things in your life that don't change.

When you wake up in the morning and you don't see the faces you usually do...Or you switch on the TV and find they've cancelled your favourite sitcom/series that you were so looking forward to watch; when you suddenly realise and regret the fact that who you were last year isn't who you are now; when one saturday night you find yourself staring at your phone waiting for an invite to a night out; when you look at your parents and finally see the wrinkles and pains they've been trying to hide from you (or that you've tried to deny); and when you look back and realise that everything seems to be going to shit or just changing way to fast and out of control, it always helps to go back to the basics.

Go back to that friend who you know you connect with, no matter what. Go back to the family that you love to hate because you know that no matter what they'll be there. Go back to the kind of cereal you used to love as a kid. Indulge in your favourite cartoon series that your parents taped and you watched over and over and over again. Search for the songs you grew up with - whether or not you are annoyed by them. Look through documentations of your past (not as other people saw it, but as you did) like journals or diaries or scrap pieces of paper that you scribbled a thought or two on - if you're that kind of person. Go back to the house you lived in as a child. Take a look around and watch the image suddenly connect with your memories in such a way that you're flung back to the past. Read a book you know always makes you smile. Wear something you know always flatters you. Write instead of type. Sing instead of mime. Release instead of repress. Remember instead of forget. Do something rather than alk about it. Go back to the things you know will never change. And if all else fails. look up and stare at the sky. It's been there since only God knows when. And it's seen all forms of shit - literally and figuratively speaking. The same sky that envelopes and protects us in this little thing we call Earth, from the bigger, scarier, less known, and abstract thing we call the universe. You look up, and you realise that you're not the only one. You realise that there are bigger things out there. And all we can do is but enjoy the little 'cheap thrills' that life has to offer.

For me... a cup of coffee and a fag always works.

I know it's more complicated than that most times. some people might not have any basics, or the comforts we share. But everyone's got their thing. But I always believe that no matter the situation - if you're fighting with someone, go back to why you were friends/lovers with them; if you're getting sick and tired of your course work, try and remember what made you think of doing it in the first place - there's always something to look back at. And it's worthwhile the reminisce I say.

posted by Yani Malai @ 9:01 AM