I am your shadow. Imagination.

The imagination is the spur of delights ...

All depends on it, it is the mainspring of everything;

Now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy?

Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

Le Marquis was so right. But what do you do with all that imagination when you have no means whatsoever to turn all this into a realistic project? I am not talking finance here. Still having visions. But the lack of energy, the wish to be cured, the energy it demands to 'take' your treatment. It leaves me steerless, doubting myself and my capabilities. A total loss of self. I am my own shadow.

I see so clearly 'what was' and I see with desperation 'what is'. I am longing for what was. But, the past is in the past. Who or what decides what will happen to me?

Realisation settles that I alone can decide. 

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