So That’s Life 2002 God, I’ve been writing all night and still I await the moment when I can unleash my blinded creativity, just let my fingers open up into these keys and let it all fly, let the thoughts that stream from my head embellish my world with little luxuries and enrich my mind beyond gold or jewels or hot tubs, soar into forgotten spaces so that it can do a little dusting of the cobwebs that have lingered for so long now. A little spring cleaning is all I ask, approach my tired mind and smell its sleepiness and say, "Hey, wake up! It’s me again! I’m back to create the day!" Here to add my run-on sentences, these impeccable strings of words that make you breathe and gasp for air because man, you’re just so excited for what’s going to flood your mind next, and you feel your lungs caving into the pressure of a thousand words because you just want to go a little further and that’s not how it all works out with you, that’s not how it’s going to be today. But that’s it, that’s awakening, that’s looking up from your metaphorical bedside and greeting the day, that’s hitting the road and not looking back, that’s living it, that’s being free, that’s the spontaneity that Life craves, this anxiety, this yearning for each day, this succulent taste of accomplishment, of success, the kind that makes your lips dry out and crack like the Sierra’s silent deathbed, already beyond the oasis that bids you further into the pit of imagination that your mind desires, already beyond that unopened bottle of Chapstick that warms in your pocket, still awaiting its opening. Yeah, that’s life for you. Truth be told, I’ve still got these run-ons working their magic. And there’s just so much to say, so many barriers that "safe writing" prohibits me from breaking, so many thoughts that I dream of letting fly, to allow escape though my fingertips, the click-click of the keyboard, beating like the heartbeat of a mouse, tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap that just keeps going, going going going with nothing to hold it back. And man, couldn’t we all just live like this? Never hold on, never let go, just keep moving, click click click, moving moving with nothing around us but the air we breathe and the sun we feel and the smile we hold on our faces. Wouldn’t life just be so exciting never knowing what could cross your path next, never seeing where you could wind up or what cushion you might fall down upon, never sure where the road inside you will twist and turn and rise and fall and bend and break and mend itself again? Wouldn’t it be exhilarating to wake up in the morning and not know the time, to not have a schedule or anyone depending on you to make the world complete? For you to just live and breathe and learn and experience, just for one day, just to see all that you can do in these twenty-four hours, this one minute that you have, this split-second Lifetime Guarantee with no returns, no refunds, no exchanges, no excuses. Just for one day, escape the confines of your bedroom, of your town, of your state, just roam wherever you could roam and be whoever you wanted to be, see the world and never turn back to regret what you’d never done in life...God, that would do it, wouldn’t it? To stop it all, just for a day, just for a little while, just to look around, just to open your eyes and let all the emotions of the world breeze through your smile, just to look up into the stars and to see worlds unknown, to see the answers, to start a piece of writing and to finish it off without knowing where Life will take you next...