reaching out

this morning wasn't such a great morning, for varied reasons (or perhaps no real one). it is the way of life, and i accept my share. i have repeated this quote within many times today:

i beg you... to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. and the point is, to live everything. live the questions now. perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

rilke begs me. i must oblige. in the meantime, i decided to open my gtalk list and to randomly message a friend i saw and ask them for a hug. it was a deliberate attempt to reach out, nothing more and nothing less. i saw j online, and told her i needed a hug. asked her if i could get one, she gave me three instead :). the day is not so bleak, suddenly. there is something beautiful in this love that the gentle soul is willing to share.