Random piece of fiction had me writing the line:

...right at the core of restlessness was serenity...

 Not that it makes much sense but seems like an apt (and hopeful) line to me.

It came up this morning when I was chatting with a friend who has decided to be single for the rest of his life after only two months of marriage. After knowing him for seven years the vibes from him was obvious every time I spoke to him - he preferred his own company. Solitude, in my view, gets a tad boring after a while. But in his case it doesn't. I was asking him what he does to keep that 'thing' going on - the thing being life with loneliness.

There are times when pangs of that loneliness hits me and makes me terribly restless (and nauseous. It's weird to manifest to an immediate physiological symptom but I am guess that's the cause) and heavily bored. Most of the time its a passing phase lasting from 2-3 days to 1-2 weeks but something else catches my attention and then I forget all about it.

Surprisingly writing isn't helping me one bit this time so will try something entirely new. I haven't figured out what I want to do but I am looking....