Where is your comfort place? You know the one place that you can feel comfortable, safe, protected. My comfort place used to be back in my childhood home on Main Street. Not in the home, but in the woods. You see, I built my own sanctuary. It was my safe place, my own refuge from reality. Although it was nothing more than a small grassy clearing, no more than the size of a parking space. Protected by a barrier of evergreen trees, that kept everything unwanted out. This was my place, my world, in the middle of the woods; it was more to me than a piece of land, it was my living dream.
This place was serene, it was my own little world locked away in a different reality. A reality protected by the surrounding trees, a secret place known only through me, hidden from the world of life. This place was so still, so calm, so tranquil, that just lying down in the grass you felt all your stress, all your problems, all your fears, dissolve in to the cool breeze that drifted by on the warm summer day. This place enveloped you in its own natural serenity. You would feel this place consume you into its stillness, bringing you closer to euphoria and farther from the anxiety of daily life.
Now that I have moved from that home and grown a little older, I am on the search to find this living dream once more. But my dream has changed; it has morphed in to goal that is fed only by the primal animal instincts of lust and love. The desire to unearth the other half of my soul, the physical, the need to provide.
But this journey is more emotionally dangerous, filled with deception. When once the world was your plaything, you have been converted into the worlds chew toy. Inhabitants misleading the course, leading you onto a path, paved with your own blood, sweat, and tears. Then forced to mop up your own mess, and salvage what’s left of the mind and body. Why? Circumstances… that have conditioned and molded them into an emotionless machine, void of feeling, chasing their next source of counterfeit affection. Held back only by there own fear to feel. Playing it safe… playing it… playing you.
