Tapping At Your Window

It is this. Tapping at a window. Looking into the living room of any household. There is perfectly maligned furniture to perfect angles of confining space. The confining space can be as large as you want to make it or as small as you can tolerate without looking very far. Tapping at the window when bored. Tapping at the screen when the window has opened. Silently caressing your pointer finger with your swirling thumb because both are numb but the thumb, it tickles. You continue until the finger tickles too, eager to penetrate wide open spaces inside the confines of a limited portrayal of the wider scene that is vast and open for interpretation, at least for what you can see. A fantasyland explored by everybody. Tapping and more tapping, tapping so much that someone, somewhere will have to answer whether they know who is tapping or not. Soon the window will fly open and the screen will be moved to the side. There stands the whole world for you to join but you hesitate to go inside. You think maybe you don’t want to go all the way in. Maybe you don’t want to reach out to be pulled in by all those people. If you could choose who would pull and who to push away if they got too close, then maybe you would go further inside. You suddenly remember why you tapped in the first place. All that tapping and numbness at your fingertips made you forget that you do have the choice to keep people close to you if you want. All you have to do is tap once and speak out for the purpose of staying connected. It wasn’t your choice to tap at the window so incessantly but only because everybody else does it too. It’s just that some spend more time and money for their tapping.

When I got to the middle of writing out this prompt I realized the most expensive thing I have purchased is my degree. Reread the post with the knowledge that the objective the writer is yearning for is a career from their hard work obtaining an education but they lack confidence to do so. It may make better sense than getting an education from your phone which can be mighty expensive too.