A Splash of Lucidity

Do you ever get this feeling? Like you’ve woken up?

It’s only when you wake up—actually wake up— that you realize how long you’ve been asleep. That these few truly wakeful moments connect throughout your life like little threads in your story, fleeting blips of pure real living, the type of awakening that’s a greeting, opening your eyes and seeing yourself, and it’s not loving yourself—it’s understanding, a calm, contented, acceptance, in those moments, where, face to face, you greet this life again, arms open and mind quiet, you listen and then you hear it again, understand it all, because it was always only one thing, simple, and obvious, you breathe easily, shrouded by the plain beauty of all that this is, and you miss yourself deeply, because it’s been a while, and you don’t know how long it will be until you meet again.