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To remember sweetness
Apr. 12th, 2012 12:48 am"It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace." - Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
I find that this isn't true for me. I find it too hard to forget sweetness, and I collect my scars of happiness and think of them often. And this can be unhealthy too, to hoard those bright moments, to hold them so tightly that one forgets to live in the present.
I am living in the present now.
But I know I have a tendency to dwell on the past, even on remembered happiness. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think of this moment or that, shared with someone special, and it's a fine line between finding grace in the memory or losing yourself to wanting. Wanting more.
I find that this isn't true for me. I find it too hard to forget sweetness, and I collect my scars of happiness and think of them often. And this can be unhealthy too, to hoard those bright moments, to hold them so tightly that one forgets to live in the present.
I am living in the present now.
But I know I have a tendency to dwell on the past, even on remembered happiness. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think of this moment or that, shared with someone special, and it's a fine line between finding grace in the memory or losing yourself to wanting. Wanting more.
