Dance in the Full Moon

Dance in the Full Moon

O, the Frailty of Memory

Wednesday, May 4, 2016

5.4

I was falling asleep and I suddenly felt like the sound a marble makes as it rolls across wood. I could hold in my head all the vast expanse of space that surrounded me, and I was alone, inconsolate. I hate that no one made me feel this way; my brain just decided I must.

6 comments:

  1. AshleeMay 5, 2016 at 3:56 AM

    I've felt this. Never thought of it like "the sound a marble makes as it rolls across wood" but it's absolutely right.

    I'm sorry you feel that lonely; it's certainly not a fun feeling.

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  2. anelles47May 5, 2016 at 6:19 PM

    That sucks. I'm sorry.

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  3. Robby Van ArsdaleMay 9, 2016 at 4:45 PM

    Christen said she felt like this too, sometimes. For me, it's a physical feeling I often feel, like falling. I feel that way when I have a fever or I'm about to fall asleep.

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  4. anelles47May 9, 2016 at 5:43 PM

    I think this is something everybody feels. I dunno whether it helps, but you said you didn't like not having a reason, and so I guess I'll tell you mine.

    We're all reeling from a breakup, a loss, we don't remember. We know something's wrong, someone's missing, that things are not as they should be. As CS Lewis said, if we have a need nothing in the world can meet, our needs must not be of this world.

    In quiet moments, we have nothing to distract us from that.

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    1. Robby Van ArsdaleMay 11, 2016 at 1:55 PM

      The marble may not be psychological but rather physiological. The fluid in my middle ear rushes around just wrong, and I feel like I'm falling even though I'm sitting down.

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    2. Robby Van ArsdaleMay 11, 2016 at 9:21 PM

      Is that Mere Christianity? I swear it is.

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