Zuihitsu

Zuihitsu is an old Japanese writing form that refers to writing one's mind as thoughts come to it, perhaps best described in English as "miscellany" or "stream of thought" writing. I had to do one for English, and I rather liked it, so:

What of the mind, that it rots so quickly? Sitting here lazily, doing nothing and doing it well, I feel as though my brain has taken leave, journeyed to a far off land. Oh, sure, it calls to leave a message once in a while, but a state of disconnect still prevails. Why can’t one engage in a few idle hours and emerge unaffected? It would be only fair, considering the amount of bombardment it must take every day. Perhaps we have developed a regrettable dependency on the cruelly frenetic pace that we must keep up with. We’re going nowhere, and doing so in a hurry! Ah, but we’ve forgotten about the most important thing, the heart. Have our souls whole-heartedly jumped on this speeding bandwagon as well, or do they still long for the quiet moments? Mine, without a doubt, pines for the brakes of simplicity to be slammed upon, so I may take my time romping about the meadows of joy and peace, feeling nothing but the earth and grass between my toes, listening for the birds’ sweet warble, gazing upward to the sky that may someday be mine, along with all the happiness any man could desire.

:)