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[freespirit82]

From the time I was very young, I've been followed by a constant melancholy, like a low hum you can only hear in the stillness. I’ve never cared much for songs in major keys; they don’t tell the whole story. Minor keys are melancholic.  Truth is bittersweet and it’s there in that lowered third.

All of my life I’ve been searching for something. It’

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[vagueshadow]

I think I know that feeling, or my own variation of it...but you've said it much better than I've ever been able to.

[anonymous]

I, too, have a longing for something I haven't identified, something I don't have with me now. But perhaps one way to fill this or to find this is to embrace everything you have now, stop using energy searching for what is missing, and just maybe. . . that emptiness will be filled. I think sometimes we expend too much energy trying to achieve something, when we could focus our energy on what is around us right now, what we have and not what we don't, and end up achieving something else. . . perhaps even our own wholeness. Something I've been thinking on lately. . .

Lisa K.

[freespirit82]

I've been thinking on this too, ever since you wrote this comment. A friend told me the other day, that after watching his mother pass away from cancer he re-evaluated his life and began trying to really live in the present, rather than expending all his energy on preparing for the future. I think you're right and perhaps that wholeness comes from accepting the present and all that is in it and finding happiness there. HOW we do this, I'm not sure. For me, I think it means disciplining my thinking to remain in the present and not allowing myself to think "Oh, I'll just do that next time around" Or "Oh, I wish I would've said that or done this." We have NOW...just now.