I was headed to my first therapy appointment. Nervous and anxious, but also a little excited. Maybe soon I’ll figure myself out.
I wandered through this strange building, unchanged since the 1980s, with a weird silence that filled the walls and narrow hallways, which were dimly lit by fluorescent light.
I didn’t dare take the elevator, in a building as strange as this.
Only three floors up.
The stairs were fine.
The building smelled old. No one else was around.
The door was so nondescript I nearly missed it. Just a brown door against a brown wall. I went inside.
Filled out paper work, then sat and waited.
The fluorescent lights continued to hum and flicker above me, but the tiny waiting room was otherwise silent. I was the only one in there. Through the walls I heard faint conversations.
This place is supposed to help people feel better, but the atmosphere does the opposite.
Except for me. I like strange places like this, that feel like an altered reality. My nervousness disappeared and I quickly wrote down my thoughts.
My inspiration was coming back.
After being missing for so long. This was a feeling I’d almost forgotten about. Maybe its return had something to do with 200 mg of Zoloft I had just been increased to the day before.
I’ve always wanted to capture certain strange feelings, and atmospheres. I can take the photographs, but have never been able to put it into words. Something is blocking it.
But maybe now the block is falling away.
I want to record my life, not just the good parts, but all the parts. I love sharing pictures, but I don’t just want to dump a bunch of pretty pictures on a page with generic predictable words.
I want to capture what that day was like.
I feel like I’m finally starting to wake up, after being away for a long time, and I am excited to see what happens next.
I remember reading this just before I needed a long internet break, and it was an inspiring entry that stuck with me. That’s why I am back and commenting about your feelings being totally relatable, especially this bit here, “I want to record my life, not just the good parts, but all the parts. I love sharing pictures, but I don’t just want to dump a bunch of pretty pictures on a page with generic predictable words. I want to capture what that day was like.”
I like what you have been sharing and I think your blog has remained genuine among a sea of lost integrity.
xox
Thank you so much!!! That means a lot to me. I took a long break from posting because it seemed like no one was interested in genuine blog posts anymore, and it was disappointing. But I’m hoping to get inspired to write again. 🙂
I totally get that, and I share that feeling, too, about blogs. I came back to blogging after a very long time away and was disappointed to find my favorite blogs had either been abandoned, moved to Instagram, or started chasing the “influencer” trend (which I am just not into). I miss the days of LiveJournal for sure, haha, and I’m searching out bloggers who still maintain some true identity in their posts. I am LOVING your blog and I hope you keep sharing your moments 🙂