the Vortex

There are some people in the world who have the ability to suck you into their life like a vortex. Perhaps this could be labelled the Vortex Syndrome. You don’t necessarily have to have a love/hate relationship with this person as their relationship to you may be an accidental friendship, an on-off love, blood-tie or vague association. However for some reason, maybe it’s their charisma, their charm, their personality-type - you are strangely drawn by them. You could go by without talking to them for weeks or seeing them for months. And then as soon as you’re back within the inner circle things slowly spiral.

It’s like you become a different person entirely with the Vortex Syndrome. It brings out the best and worst in people. It can make you feel like the cow in the movie Twister, you get sucked in, whirl around for awhile and then get spat out just as quickly (or if not faster) than you were drawn.

And every time you say to yourself, I won’t be sucked into the vortex, I’m smarter, I remember how it panned out the last time.

Yet how easily the mind forgets, the usual barriers you place upon yourself are lowered. So you wonder, what happened to yourself, that you can so easily lose a sense of perspective in the vortex?

On the outside, things have never been clearer.