something i've been thinking about

we live an entire life outside of the bits and pieces we share with others.
we live a life outside of facebook updates and blog posts and emails dashed off.
we live a life outside of the simple answers to "what did you do today?" and "how are you?" and "what's new?"
we live a life outside the assumptions and guesses and unanswered voicemails.
we live a life outside of the stolen, ignored, missed moments.
we live a life outside of the roles we play.
we live a life outside of who others think we must be.

we live an entire life 
inside
the home within us. 

i live an entire life outside of the bits and pieces i share with others. 
i live a life outside of facebook updates and blog posts and emails dashed off. 
i live a life outside of the simple answers to "what did you do today?" and "how are you?" and "what's new?"
i live a life outside the assumptions and guesses and unanswered voicemails.
i live a life outside of the stolen, ignored, missed moments.
i live a life outside of the roles i play.
i live a life outside of who others think i must be.

i live an entire life 
inside
the home within me. 

and today, knowing that truth is enough.

*****

and you, what have you been thinking about lately? what pulls at you in the quiet moments when you wish someone would see you?

Comments

[kelly]

yes. i love this. funny because i have been thinking so much of the same thing lately. our inner world doesn't always look like our outer world. and i'm not so sure that's a bad thing. some things are meant just for us. and just as you say, sometimes that is enough.

[Liv @ Choosing Beauty]

Gorgeous. Welcome home. :)

[kristen]

i too have been thinking of this a lot lately and i think that remembering this, especially when in those situations that might evoke something else, is enough. xo

[merr]

I am right where you describe, right now. Wishing for something different or somewhere different. Wishing I had signed up for your ecourse right about now.

[Stephani]

This blog really speaks to me and so appreciate you putting words to my feelings of late. Our lives are so rich and full and filled with so much, that on the surface we may appear one way and on the inside be just the opposite. Thank you for these words today.

[bonitarose]

I so agree with this... love it.. we do don't we??
I share lots i create lots, i blog lots, and yet there is so much about me no one knows..
xo hugs

[Amy]

I wage a battle with what needs to be said or shared and what is mine to keep and how some people can share my stuff without me wanting them to and being okay with that too. Hmmm.

[lisa]

Oh. Thank you for this!

Spending time away from 'home' these past few months has been an interesting experience. For quite some time now, my conversations with people have been reduced to "So, when are you coming/going home?". Inquiring minds want to know.

It feels very one dimensional.

I am living an entire life outside of that question.

And, truly, home is wherever I find myself at peace ~ within myself.

[Jennifer Valentine]

This is so true. and love that you voiced it here...
thank you for speaking for me, for us. I needed that.

[underthebigbluesky]

these are very like the thoughts i've been having the last few weeks.

right now when all is quiet i have been breathing and thinking i like the me i am inside myself.

[Jenna/The Word Cellar]

Amen, sister.