Tuesday, August 18, 2009

But where has the chamomile tea gone?

Quite a bit has happened to me since I've been here last - I've gone from whining about drawing to stressing about rent and how much my feet hurt from standing on them all day. I've discovered the real world, via moving to a town 7 hours away from home to start fresh and find myself. Or dig myself out of myself, I suppose.

So where is this elusive self? Who, exactly, am I? I think to find an answer is to miss the point. I think asking the question misses the point. You are who you are; you are how you behave, what you feel, and what you love. It changes daily and the closest thing to definition awarded us seems to be a hazy and dynamic outline. I'm slowly adjusting to, and learning to appreciate, the uncertainty and security that brings, oddly enough. The two do actually go together. If I am not something, I cannot be constrained by trying to fit into that something and thus am more completely myself.

I should write a self-help book.

(Jokes, friends, jokes)

But I will always be tempted to fit in somewhere. And letting go of fitting in doesn't mean I won't ever be comfortable or right for some place or someone, a good fit will simply be left to fate and more meaningful for it.

Right?

Oh, to find the balance between doing and letting things be done.