Sitting on a wire
Surrounded
By a murder
Without intent
Just space
Restless
Above malcontent
Ghosts
Wearing flesh
Pretending
At purpose
But failing
Inside
Their own
Distractions
NOTE: I am noticing how my brain slips easily into distraction when I’m about to experience a depressive episode. It’s as if I’m being prepared for the experience.
Depression isolates you from beauty and love. It’s solitary. It’s selfish. It’s a wonder we survive when the walls go up, the lights go out, and we are left with only its cruel voice.
I’m trying to be more mindful so I can choose beauty and light over the dark swallowing of distraction.
HASTYWORDS 
That distraction sounds rather like the aura that many people with epilepsy experience shortly before a seizure that allows them to prepare, for example, by sitting so they don’t fall.
And the image of the malcontent ghost is wonderfully, if terribly, fitting to depression.
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It’s something I’ve just started to notice and I’m trying to double down on mindfulness and gratefulness when it happens. ❤️
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That seems the right thing to do.
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HASTY – Distracted from life
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