So this is it, huh?
This is what I had been waiting for, this is what I wouldn’t shut up about, this is what I said had been missing all this time.
So now what’s my excuse supposed to be?
I’m sorry I can’t bring you all along with me
But if I could, I wouldn’t really be leaving, would I?
What he said
That’ll do
There’s no end to the variety of reasons why one might feel compelled to speak, to write, to express oneself. Why, for example, would I choose to write now after having been quiet (in this forum, at least) for so long?
Sometimes, it’s as simple as trying to push a previous entry farther down the page. An entry that might include, say, an enormous photo of sharks with human teeth, a photo that has uncovered a weakness in some of us for gazing unblinkingly at a static computer screen for long stretches of time.
But let’s not rule out the possibility that my motives were far more sophisticated than that.