i came across a new word today.
animalityNOUN: A preoccupation with the body and satisfaction of its desires:
animalism, carnality, fleshliness, physicality, sensuality.
-- Roget's thesaurus.
it sparked a revolution. on a cellular level. i swear i never realized i had senses before. walking home from work, just after a thick rainstorm, breathing felt like inhaling water without drowning. the streets had ponds in them, the leaves had raindrops on them. the air smelled of cleanliness and acid. my hands were cold. in my mesh shoes, my feet were deliciously damp.
and goddamn if i didn't realize something.
my life's been veering towards the physical lately. i crave touch, hugs and sex and random pokes. especially sex, sadly enough. i'm not hungry, but i want something that tastes a certain way. i'm hyperaware. the last time i felt like this was when i hooked up with this one kid and smoked a lot of pot. and everyone i talk to keeps asking if i'm altered. it's been almost a month since i last got drunk and more than that since i smoked up. it's something in me, for keeps.
look at the walls fading around you, the smudges (or lack thereof) on your computer screen. be aware of youe hands and feet and seam of your pants against your thigh. you'll see what i mean. about the senses. even though human sensual potential is very limited, compared to what we know is there, it doesn't matter. what matters is what we can sense. and it's amazing.
all of my life, i've been fixated on the wherefores, the causes, the intellectual side of things. meanings as opposed to beings. well. now what's important is not the cause, but the effect.
that's all. that's why i created this journal. new way of seeing, new journal. not abanding
fragilemacabre though. just need a place to write some of the new things i'm seeing down.