after a rather long halt
i rid myself from both psych meds in a few days (actually it doesn't so much feel like ridding myself than just being over it, the need)
a rather long halt in which i happened to nearly die (figuratively, of course)
and yet i did not
and now i am in this car
a Mercedes-Benz
toward Budapest
in rain
and there is an acquaintance sitting in the front passenger seat, another little carpool-coincidence
enough for me not to wish us getting into an instantly lethal accident on the motorway
which somehow did cross my mind before setting off
maybe to signal to me that all is not indeed miraculously made well inside
but it is a whole lot better, nevertheless
and i am on my way to Landau
a high school friend and her family
i'm quite far from them mentally still
but i'll have 14-ish hours on trains
to prepare, and to wind down, read, watch the landscape
i am looking foward to it
and looking forward to something, i find again and again, is as life-giving
as it is life-taking to dread something that's coming up.