The musings, laughter, anguish, and tears of a Stickman living the life drawn for him by the Artist. "I must learn to serve the Artist first, His pen directs my path. He breathes life into these worn-out sticks, And stickmen will see at last."

About Me

Poor. Student. Firefighter. EMT. Kind. Optimistic. Shy. Dreamer. Fool. Happy.

12.15.2005

Begins

Suddenly, driving home from the gym, I feel happy with everything. Like everything is where it is supposed to be - and that's okay.

Some people like beginnings, but I usually prefer ends. Maybe it's because endings often hurt that I like them - such an intenisty of feeling that it forces me to remember vividly.

Beginnings are kind of scary and awkward - like the first day of a new job. You stand around, not sure what to do and feeling as if you are just in the way of everyone else. You don't really know anything, and aren't much use besides spraying windex or lifting heavy objects. But this beginning - this one I like. I like it even though I've been here many, many times over the past two years. Does it still qualify as a beginning if you've been there before? Yes. I've already written about it, talked about it, thought about it, analyzed it...And I suppose I should be ashamed for being here again, but I'm not. I'm too excited and happy that I'm here at all.

It's a place of redemption and a place of peace.
I use that word a lot - peace.

2 comments:

Rachel said...

I suppose you mean to be vague. Correct? I like beginnings and ends. I usually like beginnings until they begin, then I like the beginning of the end. :)

Anonymous said...

matt. i agree with you one hundred percent. one hundred and eight percent actually. if you go by the percent i got on my music final... yay for bonus questions that make you feel like grade eight all over again. anyways. yes. i like beginnings that happen at the end of something that didn't begin or end very nicely. i am confused and i think you would be too reading this. goodbye from snowy canadia