- Mood:
Content - Listening to: Modest Mouse - Leavin the Living'
- Watching: My beaded curtains
- Playing: Guitar
- Eating: Apple
- Drinking: Early Gray
To: A person who may never read this
Dear ______,
I know you've probably forgotten me in some way and it's only in some odd attempt to communicate with you that I write this but stranger things have happened in my life so I figured what the hell.
I hear you're currently in Hawaii. Congratulations! I knew you'd get there eventually and it's good you stopped talking about it and just went. I hope the sun treats your skin with care and the ocean sings you a song of peace and serenity.
As hard and as cryptic as it is to hear from you, I do enjoy your _____ still and hope you will create more as it paints an interesting picture of your mind. One that I know I am no longer privy to but I enjoy the small tidbits of it none-the-less.
Well you're over there, I figured it's about time that I finally make a few things known to you while you have time to think.
1. Back in October of 2006, I was diagnosed with a small form of brain cancer that effected my judgment and morality parts of my brain. This had been there since around just before September they speculated but was luckily treatable without any Chemo. I apologize for my actions during these times for most of them were primarily not my own.
2. You saved someones life with a decision on a phone not to long ago. I was shot, but her life was saved. She thanked me, but realistically, she thanked you. The question I posed to you was a "what if" scenario as I did have to injure another human being that night, something to this day I'm still haunted by with a bullet still lodged in my shoulder from her captor. But it was not the bleeding that almost killed me that night, it's that you made me feel like a monster for even asking for your advice. Funny how in a horribly life or death situation, your number was the only one I remembered even after all this time.
3. I agree, we are very different people. It hit me today while I was listening to a man talk about forgiveness and understanding. I can't imagine never wanting to talk to someone again. I couldn't do it. I love everyone I meet and wish happiness for even my strongest enemies. I would never be as selfish to make someone sit in the dark and wonder what exactly happened only to lead myself to the belief that I was some kind of monster. In short, I give, you take. But we already knew this. No two things are so different that they cannot co-exist.
4. Hiding behind people both physically or metaphorically will prove nothing in an journey to a state of metaphorical Nirvana. For someone who claims both secretly and poetically to be omniscient, you have a problem of basic human communication face to face with a dilemma. Remember this, even Jesus himself wore sandals, played guitar and ate at McD's like the rest of his target demographics.
I'm sorry you may never read this and I'm far more sorry if you ever do, but somehow, someway, I had to let you know because God knows, you give me very few options on how to do so.
Enjoy life, to it's fullest. Though you know a lot, you have a hell of a lot to learn. As was your parting words to me, I shall give a slightly tuned version to you:
Let me give you one last piece of advise, talk. Don't assume you know the answer because you believe us mortals are dumb enough to fall into a continual pattern in which we have no escape. Variables present themselves everyday and a lot of which, we have no control over. And if you have a distaste, voice it, otherwise one can only assume that you're either content or deciding how you feel.
Goodnight Ms. _____
Signed, Warren Peace
P.S. I still look forward to the day where we may talk like old friends again.