Contact

  • Add to Friends
  • Send Message
  • Trade Items

Equipped List

Wish List

 

ShineBright29

ShineBright29's avatar

Something to Read

The Invitation
by Oriah Mountain Dreamer

It doesn't interest me what you do for a living
I want to know what you ache for
and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.

It doesn't interest me how old you are
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool
for love
for your dreams
for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon...
I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow
if you have been opened by life's betrayals
or have become shrivelled and closed
from fear of further pain.

I want to know if you can sit with pain
mine or your own
without moving to hide it
or fade it
or fix it.

I want to know if you can be with joy
mine or your own
if you can dance with wildness
and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your
fingers and toes
without cautioning us to
be careful
be realistic
to remember the limitations of being human.

It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me
is true.
I want to know if you can
disappoint another
to be true to yourself.

If you can bear the accusation of betrayal
and not betray your own soul.
If you can be faithless
and therefore trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see Beauty
even when it is not pretty
every day.
And if you can source your own life
from its presence.

I want to know if you can live with failure
yours and mine
and still stand on the edge of the lake
and shout to the silver of the full moon,
"Yes."

It doesn't interest me
to know where you live or how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up
after a night of grief and despair
weary and bruised to the bone
and do what needs to be done
to feed the children.

It doesn't interest me who you know
or how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand
in the center of the fire
with me
and not shrink back.

It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom
you have studied.
I want to know what sustains you
from the inside
when all else falls away.

I want to know if you can be alone
with yourself
and if you truly like the company you keep
in the empty moments.

Comments

View All Comments

lntoxication Report | 07/21/2010 2:49 pm
lntoxication
Sorry, I missed your birthday! I had my wisdom teeth out and couldn't get the strength to get off the couch for a few days1
lntoxication Report | 06/16/2010 3:31 pm
lntoxication
You know, you really should delete all those angry comments >.>
lntoxication Report | 04/12/2010 11:48 am
lntoxication
Hm...Wow. I got this comment on Tuesday. But You know, I have a SLIGHT suspicious will see each other biggrin And I have an even more awkward story to tell you, so ask me about it.
lntoxication Report | 11/11/2009 7:00 pm
lntoxication
Never thought I'd be removing you from my buddy list.
lntoxication Report | 04/20/2009 6:42 pm
lntoxication
Of course I keep speaking. You keep doing what you do. You make it seem like you care, but then you act like you dont. Of course I said those things. I was angry. I had had a horrible night, and you, justified or not, hadnt help. At least not yet. But to take that seriously...thats just being vindictive. And since you cut me off, all my knowledge came from Jess. And Ive never heard her say youve said one good thing about me. That hurts. And you all base your info off what happened monthes ago. Which is just rediclous. People change. Thats frighteningly obvious at this point. I suppose this is just one of those things where we have to accept our "friends" arent who we thought they were. I thought you were one of my closest friends, but you reallly werent. You havent been for a while, have you? And you can argue your point, but so far, none of your arguements have even hinted regard to any sort of regret for it. I cant think of any way to put it. You SHOULD feel bad. You should feel as bad as youve made me seem to the people of shaler, or to whoever else. If if you dont, I just hope for the future, you dont pretend to care about someone. Trust m, when they find out, they feel like this. And a bit of irony, as if this situation needs more, while I was typing this, the song Love Hurts started playing on the radio. I mean, I guess that ideal is no longer in this "relationship", but maybe youll find more humor in it then I.
lntoxication Report | 04/20/2009 6:07 pm
lntoxication
WEll, then why did you put up with me? Why lie to me? Do you have any idea how hurt I was? How I still am? Not that you'd care apparently. All those words about always caring. Just more garbage from the masks of society huh? And Know what the ironic part is? When you got the counselors to help me, I DID feel good. And I couldnt wait to apologize for everything I said. Tell you how much more confident Id become. And the first thing I hear is that My supposed best friend, one of the only 3 people in the world I truly felt cared, has felt nothing but disdain for me. You wanted me to find happiness, and yet, you didnt want to be apart of it apparently. Fine. I just wish you had said so, instead of playing me a fool for these few years. You always told me that some people would be nasty. I just never thought you would be one of the worst of them all. Goodbye. Liar.
lntoxication Report | 04/20/2009 2:50 pm
lntoxication
Well, she was saying that her friend is desperate for a date to prom, but everyone knows vickys stories about me, so no one is THAT desperate.

I wont lie. I was really hurt, but I got over it. It isnt the first time people have feigned commapssion towards me. Its nothing new. Im just an idiot for believing youd be any different.
lntoxication Report | 04/20/2009 2:19 pm
lntoxication
Its alot more then that. Apparently everyone youve talked to me about thinks im insane and downright unstable. Did you tell them anything good about me, or am I really just one bad memory after another for you?
lntoxication Report | 04/15/2009 7:18 pm
lntoxication
The whole "All the people at shaler think im suicidal and a freak" thing? Is that really all i am to you?
lntoxication Report | 04/14/2009 8:14 pm
lntoxication
And you have the audacity to stay silent.
 
 
FictionFan10
13iceyblueroses
Jezasha
Clandestine_Love93
Aurra21
lntoxication