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I'm paralyzed.  I don't know where to begin, and I don't know where to end.  My life has been a beautiful mass of swirling impulsive decisions intermingled with clear headed thoughtful moves.  I now sit and ponder this extraordinary life while I sip my morning coffee. A purring tortoise shell cat sits in my lap; if I pet her she will leave.

The last few months of my life have been a blur of excitement, impulsiveness, and mental illness. Even if nothing changes, my life is forever altered. In this moment, I know that I am not happy with my current life.  My life is structured and stable. I have a steady and boring job with planned vacations, health insurance, and a 401K.  I know all of those are good things, and those are not things that I want to give up, but I desire something more from this life.  I want something that my current situation is not providing me.  I'm not sure I know what that something is.

I run into the arms of madness because of the chaos it brings. It builds me up and tears me down and I crave it.  When I look into the madness, I see a thousand universes of stars, suns, planets, black holes, and super novas.  I want to dive into the depths and get lost in the oblivion.  I want to be swept away from this place and tossed about in the miasma of perpetual turbulence and brilliance.

As I write this, realization sweeps over me in a moment of awe. What I have just described is my mind.   This place of perpetual turbulence and brilliance is my mind.  I want to exist in a plane that matches what is inside my head.  This world is not enough for me.  This life is not enough for me.  I want an extraordinary life of adventure and bliss and heart wrenching sadness.  I want to and can feel all the emotions in existence, and then I want to lay exhausted and drained in the after math.  In this after math, I will sleep in blissful emptiness, void of all thought and feeling.  Then I will wake and begin the storm again.

This and only this will satisfy.  I do not know how to attain this.  Perhaps it is unattainable. Thus I trudge along this mortal life dreaming of a place in the stars where I can reign supreme.

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