How your stomach feels the moment you realize the life you knew has ended.
A bright light shining directly in your eyes.
Finding out the person you loved most in the world has died.
The feeling of not enough to eat.
Covid
Being at a party where you don’t know anyone, but everyone else does
Being so sick you can’t get out of bed, and there’s no one to bring you chicken noodle soup.
Watching a movie where two people find true love, knowing that it most likely won’t ever happen in real life
Becoming invisible as you grow older.
Devouring the best sour dough bread you have ever tasted, knowing your body can’t process gluten.
Planning to spend the rest of your life with someone, then finding texts on their phone to and from their lover.
the feeling of eating too much after you have starved yourself because you want to be thinner.
Driving by a homeless camp that has developed on the sidewalk under an overpass bridge, knowing it is only 5 degrees fairenheight. And there is nothing you can do to change that.
Wanting to make a living through story telling, fearing that your stories are not interesting enough for people to purchase.
Being too sick with bronchitus to take your dogs for a walk, and they don’t understand why.
Wondering if the reason you were never hired to direct plays was because of your gender or talent.
tHaving someone cut you off while your driving down the freeway.