Daily writing prompt
Describe your life in an alternate universe.
Not a bad prompt, especially since I experience myself as living in an alternative universe a lot of the time., with many moments taking on a surrealist/absurdist view as I wonder "WHAT am I supposed to glean from this, or be doing here?"
Not that anything lacks meaning. Even my work at the store is ridiculously meaningful, as complex worlds open whenever encountering and interacting with human beings. I have goals and dreams and investment in everything that seems to be happening as 'my life', but there can be this sense of moving a little doll person around in a scene at times, a little displacement. Or, in a positive view, an awareness that it's all just slightly off. This can strike me as funny, or existentially scary.
Perhaps it's just that minds can't hold reality, so must break (it) into bits.
If I've shifted to an alternate timeline, what was the original one? Them there's the Buddhist question "What was your original face before your parents were born?"
I can easily keep going in this direction, but it makes more sense to be practical here, to consider various lives I've already lived, which may have seemed 'more me', but only because they live in retrospect and contrast. Living in this apartment complex doesn't feel 'like me' to the extent that I've pondered the metaphor of witness protection, as though to escape another fate I am hiding in plain view here.
It's a temporary space, and I feel that, all the time.
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