Tuesday, January 01, 2008

Welcome to the new, same as the old

In some senses Wistdom has never been more than a perpetual wait-and-see. Much like my life, I have vaguely wanted it to be worthwhile without knowing exactly how to do that. I still don’t know the destination, but the journey has to start. And it starts at the beginning.

I wrote this to be the first placeholder (as opposed to keeping it redirecting to my homepage on college webspace) for Wistdom sometime in 2005. I normally dislike reading my past work, but I think this has held up remarkably well.

• I wish for fresh flowers and bubbles.
• I wish for close friends and irreplaceable conversations and laughter and tears.
• I wish to be someone’s first true love.
• I wish for autumn colours in July
• and for wet snow in April.
• I wish for peaceful sunrises and blinding sunsets.
• I wish for hours that make no sense when looked at from the outside in.
• I wish for mornings of waking up to see spring blossoming outside my window.
• I wish for pauses when the leaves rustle overhead to sound like evening high tide.
• I wish for afternoons of lying on the grass under the shifting shadows of oak trees.
• I wish for time to make a plan.
• I am determined to be happy.

I still do, and I still am.

Next entry: The first house party