Adrift in the Tides of Time~~Random Thoughts 1

Drab, Desolate, and Deserted

It just occurred to me that since I can’t remember way back when, I have been the only one posting on the walls of this “closed group.”  So had I not been gallivanting hereabouts, could this thread have been utterly empty?  Or if I would drop dead tomorrow or sooner, this thread would be completely empty and nobody would have even noticed it.

The opposite view needs to be examined: If I were not here would the thread be teeming with Clanspersons aching to share their anguish on something or another?  It should be worth finding out.  But how so?

It has an eerily unsettling feeling akin to watching one of those old episodes of “The Twilight Zone,” where the place appears to be ghastly abandoned as a ghost town and everything seems out of kilter.

Gee, it’s so miserable to be so important.  It gives me more than enough motivation to quit, while I’m ahead, that is.

I looked much further back and I finally found on Eya Nemusa’s wall two picture-posts of 1-Feb-14.  Misery certainly loves company.

Two questions immediately came to mind: (1) What am I doing here, practically all by myself? And (2) has my presence actually driven people away from here?

The second question is rather difficult to find the answer to.  It simply is not that easy for me to find who had come by after I had left the place.  This is maybe a fitting argument to get myself a remote monitoring setup.

The next (to last) ‘not me’-category post was by Ruffneil Asumen Cayron on 4-Dec-13 ~~showing a charming picture of MARY RUTCHANE ASUMEN CAYRON for Miss SWU (Cebu) 2014.

Next in the anomalies roster is Shiela Mae Asumen’s wall of 23-Oct-13 on Random Acts of Senseless Violence.

If memory serves me correctly, this group (and its attendant thread) was established as a forum in an attempt to reach a consensus on how best to dispose of the Clan inheritance in a manner consistent with and abiding by the spirit and letter of Mother’s published Last Will and Testament.  But as it behooves any Clan in traditions immemorial, instead of resonating in harmony, we uncovered discordance too poignant to discard and disregard.

Grievances were exchanged.  Feathers were rumpled.  And egos were bruised.  The question remains: why am I still here?  Who else cares?

The temptation is deliciously irresistible to just follow the bidding of Brenda Lee and with her, sing along:

Walk away and live a life that's full

With no regrets

And don't look back at it, just try to forget

Why build a dream that cannot come true

So be stronger touch the stars now

Walk away walk on

Alternately, I might try to channel Frank Sinatra’s Angel Eyes and take to heart the very last line:

Pardon me but I got to run

The fact's uncommonly clear

I got to find who's now the number one

And why my angel eyes ain't here

Excuse me while I disappear

Only time could tell if we still find anything worth coming home to.  A short sabbatical may very well be what the doctor would order.  Then I may yet share in substance the guarded optimism of Dr. Jose Rizal:

Then will oblivion bring to me no care 

As over thy vales and plains I sweep;

Throbbing and cleansed in thy space and air 

With color and light, with song and lament I fare, 

Ever repeating the faith that I keep.

~~ Jose Rizal, My Last Farewell (Trans. Charles Derbyshire)