Costole
(Oops, I thought I posted this on September 10. I founded it the draft section today.)The amount of energy that my current job takes, seems to suck the life out of me, but I suspect it has more to do with the fact that I am surrounded by such incredible beauty – complete from the currently falling soft rain with the most intense complete rainbow I may have ever seen, right down to the ravioli. The hills, the history, the food, everything is so incredible. I am constantly surrounded by fascinating people, and yet I feel so alone.
I have just finished 3 consecutive weeks of work, which I have stopped mentioning to others when they ask what I have been up to. I am either met with a shocked expression and a very sincere, “how are you DOING?!” or “wow, I didn’t think they did that anymore.” I didn’t find it so bad, but this last week was particularly interesting.
I learned a new word in Italian. The title of this article means ribs (cost-oh-lay), of which we had a guest break 3 on his first day’s ride, not 10 kilometers from the hotel. He spent all week in the hospital, and so did his wife, since Italian visiting hours are so convenient. I am sure it wouldn’t have been hard for her to enjoy herself if that had been more flexible. Anyway, they were troopers; I almost felt bad having fun with rest of the group. I think they are all on their way home now. I hope so, for their sake.
(they did make it home, and they sent me a biking jersey to say thanks for my help.)
posted by jjs @ 12:56 PM
1 Comments:
so do you like feeling so alone?
just thinking about the differences between the word 'alone' and 'lonely'. lonely, i think, implies that you would rather be with others. alone... seems more internal. if that makes sense. sometimes the alone is nice. like sinking into a soft beauty of memories.
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