Sehnsucht

“…Borges also introduced me to the term Sehnsucht that has been a lonely blanket across my life, comforting me in a sort of endless melancholy, cloaking me from reality. My lifelong journals have been the chronicles of my wanderlust, my longing to find this unattainable thing I think will make me whole. I think this indescribable feeling has bound me to so many of the close friends I’ve made over the years, who’ve felt a certain isolation in the present, a gilded reverence for a fast fleeting past and a pained desire to search, explore and eventually arrive, somehow, somewhere….“