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Year-end
December 21, 2007It’s when you’re in a crowd that you realize you’re at your loneliest. We had our Christmas shindig earlier. My sister and I cabbed home because the husband was somewhere else with his officemates. I kept up a cheery chatter throughout the ride. A face wash and tootbrush session later, I cried. I don’t know why. Is it because the lights shine unusually brighter this time of the year? Or because the end of the year came much sooner than expected?
I find it strange that I cried. I’d like to think it’s because I’m exhausted. Runners know the feeling, I think. You run so hard and so long you forget where your feet end and where the road begins. You set your mind to a certain stop. Then, you find yourself at the end of the road sooner than you had believed possible. Do you whoop with joy? Dance around in almost comic delight? I think you’d cry, more out of disbelief and pent-up relief than anything else.
I hope to God that is what these tears mean. Please universe, I cannot stand more psychoanalysis.
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