A good friend of mine is in the process of making some changes in his life and his blog posts have really made me consider rawness. Rawness: "unnaturally or painfully exposed". I am always in awe of his posts because they are always so raw and it's something that I appreciate. His latest post had me in tears. Like I expressed to him, it was as if he looked into my soul and was able to find words to the mess inside of me.
"It was not until I moved cross-country that I became much more painfully aware of this longing for roots. Having the separation from the people, places and landscape that I know torn away, not only did I feel alone ... but also became very aware that I felt lost. That I felt like I had no home anymore. I had no familiarity in my life, nor did I have a place where I could feel comfortable and safe."
Rawness.
Change all of those verbs to the present tense and you too have looked inside of me.
I'm sorry but also not sorry.
I'm a few days shy of being in Korea for 20 weeks now. I still have really hard moments among the really good moments. While I generally keep this blog pretty fluffly (did I mention I have a hard time opening up?) I hope you too can appreciate rawness when given the opportunity to accept it.
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