Allow Us To Live

 Staring in the mirror I don’t take too long to think. Because if I do, I’ll reflect too long on the wrinkles and grey hair that now cover that once youthful smile. Still I laugh at the thought of all the time I spent just being busy and not appreciating the moments as they came. But for the last 30 years, I’ve been forced to think and appreciate such things. But still the mask remains secure, holding in the thoughts of stillness and calm. Only displaying the wit and the showmanship that has been my life.

​So I sit here with the curtains drawn to the afternoon sun. Debating with myself about the words I wish to say. Knowing dreams are but subconscious emotion playing out in my head, wishing for more but getting less. So I leave myself asking this question, which one of me is truly me? The joking, wisecracking, happy-go-lucky fellow you see? Or the reflective man you read about behind these drawn curtains? I dare not answer that question, at least not out loud. For each of us is nothing more than a stream of consciousness parading around trying to be something we are not.

​So it leads me to ask one last question. Am I simply the sum of all my parts? Or am I just fooling myself into being something I am not? For in reality there is no right or wrong. Only the reality that we each must suffer and survive and that, my friend, is the ultimate answer. That life drives us all to survive, but it is the willingness to listen that allows us to live.

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