Sometimes when I’m at school and I need to get stuff done, particularily math homework, I like to work by myself because it is easier to get things done that way. I find it easier to read through a textbook that way, and usually when I’m with someone else it’s easy to procrastinate and not get anything done.
So, I’m sitting at a table solving math problems, I occasionally look up to see the empty chairs around me. It feels like there’s people missing. Somebody should be sitting in those chairs.
Sometimes, when I’m sitting at a table and I should be doing work, I imagine that I’m sitting and eating lunch with our family. My wife is sitting across me, our two kids sitting to our side. I look into my wife’s eyes, and I see several scences flashing through my eyes. Each scence consists of a table that is vivid in my peripheral vision, while my eyes are directly focused on her’s. Each table represents a period of time, the whole is a progression through a series that is symbolic to a unique but homogenous set of characteristiques–memories. I like each one, and would love to sit at any one of them.
I never thought I’d be sitting at one.
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