PEOPLE

It's Christmas...but I'm not a big Christmas person. Not b/c of any personal vendetta or anything, just, I guess b/c it was never a great large part of my life. I'm more of a birthday person. In any case, a few things in my life have accumulated recently and made me think of some things that probably should be xmas related, but usually arent. People, for instance. I think during xmas, we get entirely too caught up in what we're gonna get, and what to get other people, and what to wear and do and say and all such trap, that we forget to actually think of the people.

Today, my twisted little life caught up to me for some reason, and I found myself thinking about all the places I've lived, and all those PEOPLE. In all honesty, I can say that I'm actually quite content living in Iowa (of all places) and the friends I have here are better than any of the ones I've had elsewhere. I do, however, occasionally think back, and today was one of those occasions. I thought back on all of my abrupt exits from their lives, and thiers from mine, and how much I miss them.

I'll be the first to admit to just how many levels of sappy ass this whole post is sounding (and how much I detest sappy shit) but sometimes I really do miss the people I've been forced to leave behind. I found this poem and it's kind of expresses that feeling (tho far sappier than anything I could write, my poems always sounding morbid as they do). So, yeah...Merry Christmas.