That sticky feeling - STUCK.

My days are, more often than not, divided into themes, an unconscious decision. Maybe it is an auto-mechanism to keep the brain from getting rusty, maybe it is a profound horror of complete mental boredom, maybe i'm just a screwed-up case. At a superficial level, there is always a monologue/dialogue/argument/poem/song going on in my mind. At a more implicit level, it is my themes.

So about a month ago, the 'theme' was synchronicity and coincidences. That means i looked for, and found, wonder and meaning and messages in every coincidence i encountered...and i encountered countless, i still do, i still haven't switched off. For the last few days, however, a curious phenomenon has been tugging at my hems. People seem stuck.

I meet people, i talk to them, i read about them and i watch how they function in what limited way i can, and most of them seem stuck in something or the other, most often either the past, or in what they were in the past. 18 year olds seem stuck at 13...... students with 1 year of college left before stepping into 'real life' seem stuck in standard 9....people who have grown to be able to murder another seem stuck in and rave about a time when they wouldn't have hurt a fly.......people way way beyond circumstances in the past seem stuck in the mental representation of the same circumstances, regardless of the fact that life now is diametrically different. I'm certain in a day or two i'm gonna see things i'm stuck in myself...and since consciously, i cannot pinpoint any bit of the past that i can say i am stuck in, my mind is gonna work doubly hard at unearthing preconscious and unconscious stuff....

It was fine until we dabbled with synchronicity, but psychoanalysis sounds a little less harmless.