Rogelio Naranjo
If the statistics offered by this hell site are to be trusted, my most popular posts are the ones about Love. Is this because my reflections are compelling, or is it, as I suspect, due to perverse curiosity — a vulgar and obvious attraction to the Name?
Less about me and more about what can be extracted and carried into other conversations.
There is something ironic about being a Gemini whose love transforms into gossip. Most days, it is a funny fate, that’s all; just a wink from God.
Recently, Naila wrote:
I don’t have an answer for any way I am other than it’s exactly honest. I cannot actually change or temper the intensity of myself. I don’t know if I would have an interest in doing so even if I could.
It is tiring — it is alienating — it relegates me to the status of difficult.
The status of difficult is always where I land. No one knows exactly the extent of the cowardice like a woman unwilling to temper herself. I’ve watched the hand washing, the decision to leave, over and over.
My whole life as some unbearable excess.
The inability to face the multitudes of love, the failure to sit in intimacy - that’s your problem, not mine.
It’s never been mine.
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