Writing Checks
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
burghbaby

There are words swirling, fumbling around so fast they are tripping over themselves and crashing into the people I'm allowing to take up residence in the dark corners.

I need to kick those people out. I know this, but saying it is easier than doing it.

I've been trying to piece together a few of those words. They belong together and they should be BOLD and flashing and prominent.

Don't write checks that pay for your own misery.

I believe in the words, but they are flittering just out of my grasp. I can't seem to pull them close to my heart.

The people in the dark corners won't leave until I stop writing checks that pay for my own misery.

While I fumble trying to find my way out of the darkness, I struggle to focus. I struggle to write checks that pay for my own happiness. I need to grab her hand and walk outside and just sit. Just be.

I need to swim in her eyes and dive so deep that I'm only surrounded by the things that are right. The things that matter. The things that are happy.

I can't change The Now, but I can write the checks that pay for a better tomorrow.

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