#recognising

I cleaned my room after a few weeks, but the bathroom remains messy. My shelf is stained with the clear blue of minty Listerine and some strands of hair that inevitably end up on the floor no matter what I do. I realise that despite having lived in this tiny box for over two years, it remains vastly empty, and I wonder if my room personifies me as a person.

I have brewed some raspberry leaf tea and the tinted transparency is unnerving. I look through it as though I am looking through rose-tinted glasses. I try to look at myself, but even through this pretty fluid I look just like I always do, albeit pink. I remind myself to stop looking for escapes the same time I remind myself to clean the bathroom tonight.

I have a meeting in 36 minutes. And then probably another one after. I extinguished my favourite vanilla candle just now, it finished, and it is hard for me to avoid the metaphor. The other day my friend and I had a 4-and-a-half-hour conversation, we discussed my lack of hobbies, how I had nothing to turn to, to relax. She noted that I’d been good at almost everything I tried without practice, and I noted that it never felt like enough. I had never found something I could get lost in, something that I was good enough at, something that I looked forward to. Instead, I count down the minutes to my next task, my next meeting, my next meal, my next essay. I wait and wait for the mundaneness of life to swallow me whole.

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