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You're too fast to chase, anymore.

This song still gives me the chills. Last year in August, I got another episode of some of the worst anxiety of my life. It was hot summer, and the heat made it harder to sleep. I laid on the cool kitchen tile, staring up at the ceiling light. It was 2 in the morning. I hadn't slept in three days. My body twitched with awkward convulsions as it tried to sleep but my brain remained drugged on stress hormones from my anxiety.  I tried to think of how that was kind of interesting or neat. But despite attempts to trivialize it, I knew it wasn't neat. It was scary and bewildering. This song played through my head in the background of my scurrying and frantic thoughts. "I'm tired, I've been waiting for you. I'm so tired, and I need to lay down." Anyone who has experienced a chronic episode of anxiety knows the dogged feeling of wanting to sleep so goddamn bad but being so idiotically and paradoxically afraid of sleeping. I listened to that song