Seriously? How does this work? What is wrong with my brain, that this is the convoluted backwards way, that I think? This then take me hours to unravel. How did I get there? What triggered my need to understand this thing? This small random thing, that I ran across doing something totally else, but I then diverted my whole morning to trying to figure out. Not that it was a big loss, my morning consisted of coffee, email and browsing my various feeds.
Have you ever understood something deeply before you have even translated it?
This happens to me every once in a while. It's one of the things that frustrates me about my thought processes. How does my brain do this? How do I feel so drawn to something, I can't yet understand?
I think it comes from growing up in a trilingual house, mother spoke both german and french to me with some yiddish thrown in because why not? I also grew up in a Hispanic neighborhood in Chicago where you soak up enough of the language by osmosis but not enough to speak or totally understand it.
All this informs how I think and speaks to an enduring inability to concentrate on just one thing. That is my story and I am sticking to it. Its better than the alternative, which is, that I am an idiot.
Anyway,
I found this phrase scrolling through Instagram and immediately felt the need to translate it.
"Warum ist das Naheliegende machmal so weit weg?"
translation; "Why is the obvious sometimes so far away?"
Which then prompted this;
Trying to think coherent thoughts is sometimes difficult.
they get splintered,
they fly off like started birds,
they skitter under the sink,
To get lost for days
Weeks,
Months,
Years...........
I try to think in a linear fashion, about a thing.
I try to thing deep thoughtful things, Analyzing them, how I feel, how........
.............
...........
..............nope,
it's gone.
I am easily distracted by the squirrels in my brain.
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