Sometimes you need to take a moment,

and step aside from what you're doing to empty your mind of things that are preventing productivity.

So I'd just like to rant for a while. (I can smell weed, btw) Not everything that happens, good or bad, needs ever be said again. Sometimes you can sort out your thoughts without text, but hey, if you need to write, try paper, try anonymity, try poetry... try song. Songs are poetry.

But what about the things that just aren't meant to be written?

The english language only has so many words, and to put something in words restricts it greatly. An experience, a feeling, a sensation... how do you express it? What words do you use? Can it be sorted out? Should it be?

Why would you want to pin something like that down? Why would you want to restrain it, make less of it? Cut it, dry it, hang it on the wall and understand it completely? Why not let it stay unknown, let it stay just like it is in that liminal moment, let it simmer in the back of your mind.

Does everything need to be written down and put out there for justification? Does everyone need to read about your life, just to make it real?

What if people stopped reading? Would you cease to be?

So you say you don't write to justify your existance. You write to update people. Let them know how you're doing. How much do they need to know? There is a certain line, a certain curtain that necessarily blocks the inner sanctum of a life from those beyond it. If you ever manage to step behind the curtain, take great care not to tear it down. It could be replaced with a wall.

I suppose what I'm really trying to say is that relationships are fragile. They should be between two people, and some things should just stay between those two people. Relationships should be seperate from friendships. Friends don't need to know everything. In the end, how badly do you want them to know? Enough to hurt the relationship? You can stand on the rooftops and yell to the world that you're happy without going deeper than that.