Deadlines and Sideway Boxes

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Do I have a deadline?

Has the world given me this deadline?

Have I given myself this deadline?

Am I attached to this supposed deadline?

What happens if I don't meet it?

...am I...a failure?

If so, a failure at what?

What or who have I failed? Me? Life? My close ones? Are any of these really affected?

I look up and see a beautiful painting

I see everything I have planned and drawn out for remainder of my life to the tiniest detail

Why is this painting in the "up there" while I am surrounded by several other quite extraordinarily ordinary paintings of others down here?

What qualified me to put my painting in the "up there" and not the others?

What makes my painting so great that it is eligible to be in the "up there"

What is "up there"

What is "down here"

If I tilt this box side ways, would it all not be just "by the side"?

Why am I living sideways...

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