22 September 2009

Absence and Complete Presence

As many of you know, I took a week or more out of touch with the world and then a couple weeks on either side getting my head on straight. I can't say that I can offer any grand insight into the way the world works, but I can offer insight into my mental state coming out of this 'time out of life' as it were.

I am here again. I am present in my life and an active participant in living my life as I need to be. Blah blah blah, she says. What this introspection really just means is that sometimes I go away. Most of you who have known me for any length of time know that sometimes I am fully a part of the world around me: I am energetically involved in everything I do, I sing and dance because I am happy, I am 'up to trouble,' and I am reading and learning and not just doing marking time activities like web surfing, video games and television. Basically I wake up and I am the Rhiannon everyone likes best.

The catalysts for me going away inside my head are many, I am fairly sensitive. They do not merit assessing, nor are they the sort of extremely private matter that I would put into this sort of forum. But it really is also that they don't matter for our discussion here. What matters here is I am awake, and I've noticed many of you are as well. It's part of the path towards self-actualization that many of us are on and will continue on all our lives. So understand if I go away in my head, I will come back. And I'll probably come back like I am right now....

ALIVE AWAKE ALERT ENTHUSIASTIC and ABSOLUTELY THRILLED AT THE OPPORTUNITIES AND ACTUALITIES IN FRONT OF ME!