Tectonic plates
My day job keeps me engaged five days a week. The remaining two days are the days I take a break. I feel relief when I go out, and heavy when I return. I wish to change and transform on every occasion, but the rigidity of reality doesn't allow any bend or twist toward a desired direction. It just stands stiff day and night, summer and winter, season after season. I fall asleep on the bus returning from a night shift, and I type this in my sleepy state: ìiiiìììiìiìiiììiìi⁵is ùùùuùuuuùùùùù45⁵⁵⁹⁹⁹⁹⁹999⁹⁹⁹⁹⁹⁹⁹⁹⁹⁹⁹⁹9⁹9⁹9⁹⁹⁹⁹⁹⁹9⁹99
I started writing because I love to challenge myself, and I kept writing because the events in my life are otherworldly miserable, and nonstop. My response to nonstop misery is nonstop writing. The darker it gets, the uglier my words get this is the only coping mechanism I have for this world called life. The opposite of a bad day is equivalent bad words, not a happy day. Things like happiness are better relegated to movies and dreams. The reality is something else.
I don't know if I'll keep writing once — if — reality changes. What would I write then? Where would the inspiration come from? Will I sit down and create something out of nothing? I don't know. But one thing I'm certain of: I'm going to write for a little while. The time isn't specified. Maybe I'll stop writing one day, or maybe I'll keep finding words that fit the weight of my pain.
I don't even want to sleep, because I know I'll wake up in the same place as before, the same job, the same people. I just want to extend today a little bit and see tomorrow from the distance and different angle.
Today was a battle. I gained some and lost some, but I fought hard not to let people down. My mind drags me one way and I drag myself the other direction. It feels like manual labor. When I got exhausted, it scored on me, and I got up off the ground and gained some points back until it came and attacked me from another direction, once again.
I try to keep my conflicts inside as much as I can. The more I hide the battle within, the better I look, and the more appealing and fun I seem. But the moment the volcano erupts, people start to escape from me — because that's human nature, and I can do nothing except witness the tragedy in shock.
I consider myself an earth's crust. People built homes and families on me. They put their trust in me, and I put my trust in them. But out of the blue, I swallow everything without warning. Why did I do this to them? Were we bad for each other? No why did I hurt those glorious souls? What did they do to me, that they'd be displaced and erased from their land? Simply nothing. It's not their fault, and it's not my intention either. I just want them to know it was never my intention to hurt anyone. It's simply the result of a collision between two tectonic plates, deep inside the earth. If they had been in a different location, they would have had a different experience.
I'm shocked, every time, after every eruption, shocked at the scale of damage I caused. And I give my apologies to those hurt by me. I feel bad, but what else would I do? I'm a volcano. I only know how to be quiet for a while and erupt when the time is right. People mistakenly settle on me and consider it permanent and rely on it. But I'd like to remind them, once again: your house is built on a fault line. Deep inside, something is always moving between the plates and when the time is right, it erupts.








