Thought Past Tense

I learned a new word today, ineffable, something that’s meaning cannot be reduced to words, to expression, it was in a discussion paper on the known, the knowable and the unknowable. The third feels a bit, of an excuse really but it’s an interesting way or reducing things.

I am 27, and, when I was 24, no, 23, this felt like a lifetime away, I suppose you grade yourself on your own scale, my scale has been well off what most people consider important from a fairly young age, the result of things that I’m still trying to piece together. Still, I’ve always thought, expected, this, because I was born on the 27th of march, so as a child, a teenager, I imagined what it would be like.

Prepared or unprepared, you’re going to have to live through something today.

A father sees the innocence in his daughter, whilst a mother sees the strength in her son, both looking for the things they find attractive in each other.