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Currently transiting: Loch Lomond, Scotland | Previous destination: Kernavė Archaeological Site, Lithuania

Saturday 1 May 2010

Life in Motion: And Here I Go Again

I saw a word today that sounded nice and foreign at the same time. It reminded me of how I chose to tread on alone; refusing help even when it gets really tough.

I guess the clouds are all squeezed dry now that it has stopped raining. The sloughy mixture of water and soil has fully covered the lower half of my body. Gosh! Why didn't I see it when it was dry a day earlier? Why was I so complacent, thinking to myself what could go wrong? How wrong I was.

It was even more foolish to refuse help from that guy - fiercely - and asking him what a frail man could do to get me out. I cursed the ground. And the sky. And anything else I could think of, that caused this malady. I looked up and I made out Scorpio. the constellation. And I saw pride.

When light came, I started digging around me until what was left couldn't sustain me anymore.

It's been a month now and I must say I did quite well getting out. Not quite. I didn't, actually. The last thing I felt and saw were the soft clay and rock which were deposited around my hips.

And the word? Yesharim.
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