Week 12 Speed Writing

Only written to the first section of music. I ran out of ideas when the second piece began.

Forgetfullness is a terrible thing. What would it be like to not remember the ones you love? But you almost forget what they look like, sound like, smell like anyway when you never see them. If a person is not around, if they are not influencing you, guiding you, shaping you, they have no effect on you at all and therefore their memory slowly fades. They become a murmur in the back of your mind. An echo of your past. A fading image you so long to recall. There name on the tip of your tongue, just out of reach, out of sight, out of mind. What can be done? They'll probably die and you wouldn't even know. If you don't know how can you care...? Should you care? You never see them, never talk to them, have to remember to think about them on a regular basis or they'd be gone from your conscious completely. And what if you were to pass them in the street? Would you recognise them? More importantly would they recognise you? Can they see you from above? Reach out and perhaps they'll touch you, not physically but with some part of their love that can never fade. The connection that brings us all together is ever present...we just have to open ourselves to its touch. Or reach out with a thought, find something that reminds you of the one you loved so dearly, and let go of all thought and reason. Allow your imagination, your spirit, your soul to feel, un-mediated by the rationality of reality. The world beyond us is much more powerful than anything we have ever experienced or anything we can imagine. It's just a matter of opening oneself to the experience that is longing to re-connect us with one another. Vulnerability, fear and insecurity will allow us to reach out - we must be stripped bare to feel the raw energy of love. When you think of them next time, don't check yourself, just let go. Let them take you on a journey through your own consciouce, your memory, your soul.