when i feel something, deeply and powerfully, it is impossible to ignore that feeling.
it becomes the only reality that i can respond to, relate to or recognise.

i simply can't even ask if this is how i have always felt or wonder how i will feel in the future.

i don't care.

The intensity of the moment is all. The above is equally true of pain as it is of joy, of hate as it is of love, of despair as it is of hope.

It is certainly true of what i feel now.

can i brush aside my experience? i can't.

yet somehow, for the sake of sanity, continuity, progress and personal integrity, i must strive for some sense of perspective.