8.09.2007

Falling



Falling - fell, fall·en, fall·ing (–verb (used without object)
to pass into some physical, mental, or emotional condition
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Unique - u·nique (adj.)
Being the only one of its kind, Without an equal or equivalent; unparalleled

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Two words that best describe what I want to say. I often think of my feelings and actions to be unique. Regardless if it is the truth or not. Often I have feelings, emotions or simply my actions in a situation. I wonder if anyone has similar feelings. I think, it is impossible for two people to feel the same emotion. Then you look at someone and see in their eyes and feel it in their soft words and realize, maybe it is.

I’ve been traveling for many years now putting all of my experiences and lessons into my backpack. Constantly looking back at the past and comparing to the present. Each time I start a new voyage, I think about how to start fresh and clean. What I have realized is that with each new start, the previous ending is not relevant. Our lessons may make us think a little before we speak, but the voyage is new regardless.

6.20.2007

Happy Pride

pride  [prahyd] noun a becoming or dignified sense of what is due to oneself or one's position or character; self-respect; self-esteem. the best of a group, class, society, etc.



For starters I would like to say Happy Pride. I have found in the past ten years I have been living the proud life of an openly gay man. I can sense those that appreciate that statement, and those that just hear it and then dismiss it. I get chills even today, when I see and feel the latter of those two.

As with everything else in life, pride starts within yourself before anywhere else. You cannot appreciate or accept anything, until you appreciate and accept yourself. In realizing this I now, more than ever, can appreciate the importance of being proud of who I am and what that represents within the gay community. When taking off the saturday before the upcoming NYC pride celebration, I wrote down "family gathering" as the reason for me needing the time off. Whether that is "technically" true or not and regardless of how many people I will actually know when I walk the streets of NY, I understand the struggles and accomplishments within the LGBT community more than any other. That to me signifies family.

The hardest struggle for any one person walking this earth is the struggle for simple acceptance. Throughout history there have been these struggles, and while great stride has been made in many aspects, ignorance will always live and be heard louder than reason. The importance of pride within any community is to put ignorance aside and let that pride be seen and heard louder and brighter than the usual blanket of ignorance, discrimination and hate.

Many proud LGBT individuals do not have the luxury to live day to day completely open to the world. Regardless of their reasons , Pride allows them to open up and exhale. This lifestyle is no more a choice than my gender being male. I was born who I am and live proud everyday.

Simply put, pride is a celebration of life, love and the rebirth of community.

4.03.2007

idle in-between


Remember when I used to flush out my thoughts into beautiful words, witty comments, out right funny gestures. Remember when I was a whole person fighting the fight with only me by my side. The strength to move mountains, the power to do what ever my heart desired and the motivation to do it all twice in one day. I look at the years that I have struggled through, the days filled with power and ambition, the nights alone wishing for someone to sit and stay by my side for more than just a quick empty moment. It is hard to weigh them side by side. The power and strength of being alone and the eternal feeling of emptiness and loneliness.

I struggle to figure out how to make them live in a place of peace and serenity. How to be ok with feeling alone once again. I can't comprehend how to find the previous ambition to fight for what I want out of life. I have ideas and passion that all seems to be lying asleep inside of me. Hibernating through this change, different from the change in season yet happening in a parallel place of similarity.

I look in the mirror everyday and feel much like someone healing from a head injury. Am I me? I wonder as I stare in the mirror for a undetermined amount of time. Who are you, person staring back at me? What do you want to do today I ask, what do you want to come of this day? I want to make a difference, I want to smile and laugh with those I see standing near me. I want to think about what I can do, rather than being sophicated by thoughts of things out of my control. As I have been taught, I remind myself with each passing moment of the things I want to change, the things I want for myself. I remind myself to stop thinking, while it seems to only make me think more. In an explosion of frustration I throw my arms up and surrender. My power to control myself is only as strong as me. I need to give myself a break. Exhausted equals me.

Love, something I have never known or felt to this capacity before ever. It surrounded me and huged me in a way I wish I could have shared it with every passing person I saw. I forget how to enjoy it, and constantly worry about how I destroyed it without being completely aware. My heart can be overbearing and needy. It needs twice as many hugs, it needs twice as many kisses, it needs twice as many reminders, it needs twice as much love as any other heart I know. My heart controls all my actions, decisions and feels all the consequences my life, myself deals to it. My heart aches and sleeps, never resting idle in-between.

Decisions and consequences. I once decided this is what I want....I never found out what "this" was.. Perhaps I am a simple boy that just wants love out of life and nothing more. Is love my super power, or is it my cryptonite. The one thing I want more than anything seems to be the one thing that paralyzes me. No one moment ever seems to satisfy me. Nothing ever seems to be enough. The needing never stops, the wanting is always present with each changing thought. If only I could direct these feeling in the direction that would make a difference or save a life or at the very least change something for the good. If only my powers and strengths were worth having, rather that just draining and ultimately powerless.

3.11.2007

Cold Water, Closer



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This movie, flawless and heartbreaking
The song is the same

heartache, never to be figured out...simply something you work through and deal with.
we always move on, but thankfully never forget
i wish to never forget
who would want to forget when you can smile and remember
sometimes hurt makes you want to forget
my hurt makes me want to remember
love is not found everyday, but i've found it
and I know it
and I embraced it with all of who I am
love is... unforgetable

Angel