There is a song called Respiration by Blackstar and Common, and it came out back in 1999. I used to play that song to death, mostly because of the beat, and the way the rappers flowed over it. I sat down at my desk this morning and listened to it, and now it resonates me for much different reasons. There are two different lines that jumped out at me this morning. One, "So much on my mind that I can't recline..." and the other, "its hard to be a spiritual being when shit is shaking what you believe in". The entire song is worth listening to, but those two spoke to my current situation man. It makes no sense to try to run from it, or declare myself all "better" because I have one day of euphoria. This will be with me in some capacity for a minute, so I may as well deal with it. I am unhappy with aspects of my life, and but there are other aspects that are damn good. As my spiritual guru(my mother) said to me today, I have a cell phone, i have a computer, i have a job, and i have friends and family. Things could sho nuff be worse. I could be the homeless man I so fervently stalked last year. How's that for perspective?