procrastination part two

I once wrote a paper about my lack of belief in the ability of people to change. I doubt my own ability to change more than anything. I often get the sinking feeling that my current slack-off ways are just the prelude to my slack-off life. I worry that I’ve set myself up to imminently fail. I keep wondering which mistake will be the point of no return. Putting things off is my biggest problem - in nearly every way imaginable. Although, now that I’ve talked about it on the world wide web, I feel a little bit better. This problem was brought to my attention a long time ago. Why am I still struggling with it?

“But not all trivial things are archways anymore.”

the things that

people said when I was younger are vitally important. In the dark during a sleepover, rolled over on their sides - or sitting in a circle outside during a school basketball game, crying about their parents or their salvation… the things I experienced then may not have been as dark as they seem to me now, but I can’t re-regard them. They still seem dark and weighty… and vitally important. And I feel irresponsible for not writing down more of their words.

people with slender, thin-boned frames, like teenagers

“I motioned to our storefront, which was currently a pile of cardboard on the floor, and said, ‘Like how our storefront is looking so far?’

He said something like yeah, and is our story going to be that it got hit by a tornado?

My memory is sketchy, but I was really proud of that moment.”

The feeling was so fantastic I just assumed it wasn’t common.

“I hope one day you all fall so in love you don’t know left from right.”
“A part of it plays over and over in my head, always with the most sick and misplaced intimacy.”

Now we’re counting every dull-eyed glance as a precious gem.