30 Minus 2 Days of Writing (2013)
Day 27: “And That’s Why I Got Drunk”
We raise our glasses to the inexhaustible variety of life, to all of those separate moments of sameness wrought with stagnancy, or trifling human catastrophe — to those tentative steps towards hopeful beginnings, or in deference to sadder times marked with the bitterness of inevitable ends. We toast to friends both new and old, to the promise or passing of lovers, to mothers both living and long since lost. We toast to traditions, to salvation and sins, and to the madness of the human condition in which we perpetually live to bleed and breed, and strike upon revelations in harmony with the fleeting breaths of generations past. To this we all shall raise a glass, in the name of the living and the dead, in the name of joy, and dreams, and the empathy of unified heartbeats driven by the eagerest of human needs for simple reciprocity.
Here’s to the highs of life, and the somber lows of our crude physicality. Here’s to the onset of eventual understanding, to the might of ambiguity, the strength of suggestion, and the certitude of maybe. To all of these things we shall raise a glass.
And in the end, setting all sentiment aside, sometimes we just need a drink because life is kind of shit. Here’s to you, my friends, for finding yourselves in this same tired predicament and having the good sense to learn how to cope between the laughter, the tears, and the indecipherable screams welling beneath the savagery of our frightened, civilized, limited capacity for hope and dreams.
30 Minus 2 Days of Writing (2013)
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Here Here. Very well done sir.
Many thanks, Jarod. I feel a very strong compulsion to share a beer with you right now. Let’s make it three or more the next time we get a chance.
I’ll drink to that, KZ. Another great piece of writing from you, I’m definitely a fan. 🙂
If you’re going to raise a glass, may as well make it a Guinness! It’s a beverage and a meal 🙂
Raising a glass with a Guinness is definitely the way to do it. 🙂
You touched on that which is life, lived, breathed, loved through all of the ups and downs. I’ll raise my glass, too. Cheers!
I just want to let you know that you are not only my favourite blogger but if God does exist, he/she must have broken the mould when he made you. They way in which you articulate your embedded frustration about the human existence is like a breadth of fresh air. Being a struggling agnostic I often found myself contemplating about the uncertainities of life and then when I stumbled upon your blog I felt a sense of solidarity which was immensely calming. I thank you for that.
I just want to let you know that you are not only my favourite blogger but if God does exist, he/she must have broken the mould when he made you. They way in which you articulate your embedded frustration about the human existence is like a breadth of fresh air. Being a struggling agnostic I often found myself contemplating about the uncertainties of life and then when I stumbled upon your blog I felt a sense of solidarity which was immensely calming. I thank you for that.