5.14.2008

High Life

I have had a landslide of coffee today. And it still doesn't seem like enough. It's become my best friend these days, especially when no one else seems to be around. I'm sitting at Meridee's, one of my favorite Franklin-ite spots. I have slowly began to realize that I'm caught in the middle of my past, a Franklin-ite, and my present, average jane. Franklin goes to my deepest roots, my instincts, dreams, eyes, everything. But now that I've been away from it for about a year now, I realize what a subculture it really is and that this is WAY more to life than being from Franklin. It's like freakin' Hollywood or something... it's just so "cool" to have Williamson County on your license plate. It's like you're royalty or something. Yes, there are some amazing things about Franklin. It's a very unique place. But it isn't the only place. Somehow I'm stuck somewhere in between.

I seem to be "stuck" a lot of places lately. I don't really feel like anything is in my hands. Maybe that's the way it's suppose to be, who knows. Apathy is probably my worst enemy right now.

"There's a night life falling down on me
I just feel like a change
Beneath the sun in summer,
a sea of flowers won't bloom without the rain
But oh, this desert life, this high life
Here at the dying of the day
I wasn't made for this scene"

1 comment:

Jeff B said...

It is really hard to be stuck between your past and your future, but at least you have a past. I for so long have dealt with the issue of not having a past, having no place to call my "home-town". Even though you are leaving Franklin behind, it will always be a part of you. Franklin will forever be a place for you to go back to. Not to bash my past or anything, but I often seem like I have really no where to call "home". No single place stands out as my hometown.

Apathy sucks, I know all about that first had (hence our earlier conversation).

That is an awesome song, and I was actually listening to that today.

"Waiting here for you
Wanting to tell you
How I get my ends and my beginning mixed up too
Just the way you do
Thought if I told you
You might want to stay for just another day or two"