Like a Backward Echo

The quotation for this post I found first ~
It spoke to me first in a whisper, growing ever stronger of
unpleasant memories of creating unnecessary complications.
Running into guilty fears of never being fast enough.
Trying to untie the damage to relationship and calm.

Today when ordinary complications arise
time crunches and heart crunches want to send me back and back
until I remember the pressures I alone created.
Then I know it is time to breathe deeply and walk slowly.
In cool morning air, with slowed steps, the knots fall apart on their own.

“…..People tend to complicate their own lives, 

as if living weren’t complicated enough already.”

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind