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so i just woke up a little while ago and already feel bad. its like its already the end of the day. it used to be that i’d wake up feeling pretty good and that it was by the end of the day, after going through all that day’s mess and after having had time to think about all of the mess of yesterdays that i’d feel down or whatever, but instead i woke up today feeling the way i usually go to bed bad days.
it’s a crappy feeling. i just feel generally bad and annoyed. i feel like i’m starting everything off in the hole, a relatively deep hole too, and i have to climb myself out.
i feel like there’s a lot of stuff i need to be doing right now, but i don’t want to do any of it. i don’t want to call the girl about the apartment in greensboro, i don’t want to do the test out assignments, i don’t want to fill out all my financial aid information. i want to just feel good. i want to be able to call Him, tell Him i’m just nto feeling good today, and Him come spend time with me. it used to be that just talking to Him and seeing Him was enough to put me in a good mood, but now i’m not really talking to Him about how i’m feeling.
the way i explained it a friend the other day is he’s just not into talking really at all anymore and that i’m just not interested in talking right now cause i don’t really know how i feel, but that’s not completely true cause i do know i feel bad. today, or at least this morning anyway i feel bad. i don’t completely know why but at the same time its hard not to imagine that i wouldn’t be feeling at least a little better if i’d at least woken up next to Him.
i was hoping writing would make me feel a little better and it did a little, but now i think i need a more mindless distraction. mindless isn’t really right, just less personal. right now i need a less personal distraction.
i’ve been listening a lot to pop radio music lately. sometimes i want to go on car rides just so i can listen and stare out the window (i’d usually rather ride than drive, easier to let someone else to all the work and just be able to sit back). i really like going on rides with my mom, or at least i like them when she’ll let me just sit back and listen to music. a lot of the time she wants to talk and i don’t want to, i don’t want her judgement, but i don’t want to argue either. still on the whole i’d say i’d rather drive around quiet with her than by myself which i guess is hypocritical cause whenever i’m with Him and he just wants to be quiet i take it so personally and get hurt and upset. He says i’m too sensitive.
last night He hurt me. we were in town and He’d just smoked. He’d asked me if i wanted to but i didn’t. i like smoking but not as often as he does and the thought of it just made me feel sick then. if i’d smoked we probably would have sat and talked for a while, but it seemed like since i didn’t that He just wanted to drop me off and head on “home.” anyway that part doesn’t matter, the part that matters is when one of His friends showed up and the moment i started telling him goodnight He jumped up and got out of the truck before i’d* even had a chance to get out myself and started walking away. He doesn’t see how it hurts me for Him to walk away from me, completely disengaged, already in his head somewhere else before I’m ready to leave a moment. it’s disrespectful and hurtful but He doesn’t see it. He does this kind of thing all the time and it doesn’t matter if I talk to him about it cause He’ll just say that I’m being to sensitive. it hurts. that’s the kind of thing that sticks with you too. that was pretty much the last thing that happened to me before I came home. after He left me there in the truck I got out, say “hey” to his friends, got in my car, and went to my respective “home.” after that saw my parents but didn’t talk to them, didn’t feel up to it, took my medication, maybe wrote a little, and went to bed, and now its the next morning and i woke up feeling all sour. I don’t know.
I don’t know. I think today i’m gonna try to buy a copy of edgar allen poe’s work. I remember liking the bits that I read. he seems like an interesting person and I guess I think I’d like to get to know him and his work.
* initially I decided to capitalize “he,” “him,” and “his” when referring to Him to distinguish Him from anyone else since I don’t feel like describing Him directly yet, but I feel like to capitalize Him and not me, or “I” rather might be patronizing and degrading to myself. I’m not sure that it is, but I don’t want to take the risk, so even though I don’t care about capital “i”s in the personal sense I’m gonna start capitalizing them anyway from the seeking empowerment and self-respect perspective.
normally i’m the kinda person who has a million question. i’m curious, really curious, and about just about everything. when i don’t understand something i keep picking and picking and picking until i finally think i have my head wrapped around what ever it is that i want to understand, but right now, with Him, i’m not doing that. i don’t really know whats going on. i don’t know what He’s thinking or wanting, but a lot more than normal i don’t care. i mean i do but not enough to pick. i mean at least part of that is me not asking cause i know it will just annoy Him and push Him away, but that’s rarely stopped me in the past so i know its more than that. i think a lot of why i’m not asking him all those questions is cause i don’t know how i’m feeling about all those same question, but more than that. i care but not like i did. i just keep feeling like i’d be happier without Him, but i don’t think i want to feel that, so i’ve been sorta cutting my mind off as much as i can and not asking him what he thinks. its like its already over but i’m not saying anything about it cause of not being ready for it to end and maybe too start something new.
i have been thinking though about some of the experiences that i feel like i’ve been missing. i think a lot about not being able to experience other people. i’ve thought about maybe suggesting an open relationship cause of being curious to experience other people but am pretty sure i wouldn’t want to share Him. from the start He had been completely mine, i’d had to work hard to keep Him, and don’t think we’d stay together anyway if we tried an open relationship. i don’t know. right now though i don’t think anything other than what we’re doing would work, but at the same time i know this wont keep working for long.
this blog is a secrete that i haven’t told anyone about. i’m bad at secretes. i’m the kinda girl that would be a good bit less socially awkward if only she could keep secretes about herself (i’ve been told this rather directly before, several times). but this, for now anyway, is a secrete. as far as i know this is the only secrete i have. i know it hasn’t been long, but so far i’m enjoying my little secrete. thank-you for indulging me…
in short i got drunk. but more than just that i got drunk at a bar with a lot of people around, one of which just so happened to be Him, although i’m pretty sure he had virtually no idea since he supposedly drank about twice as much as me, but that part really isn’t especially important.
anyways, so i had been planning on staying in for the night with my ‘sister’ when a friend invited me out for birthday festivities. i later decided to actually go out when an old boyfriend/current good friend/clearly physically interested and also horny boy/ M.R. texted me that he had just met Him for the first time. its like i don’t want to be that girl, that stupid, stupid little girl who lets a boy become to much of her life (AGAIN) but then there i was out the door easily an hour sooner than i would have been otherwise.
all in all i did my own thing pretty well. i mean i hung out with my own friends, caught up with a bunch of people and all that mess, but then when it was closing time that’s when all my good friends had already left and i wanted Him to really notice me and want me but He didn’t really. somewhere between really drunk and still being all the not nice things that are Himself he left without so much as a kiss on the cheek or an “i love you” or anything like that, and that’s when, somehow, all the alcohol that i’d drank earlier which really hadn’t seemed like all that much, really kicked in.
i told M.R. that no, i would not be going back to stay with him at the hotel he’d booked earlier and instead went with a different boy B.S. (who i’d also had a physical history with several years ago).
lately i’ve been really surprised at just how lonely boys can be and just how desperate they get when they’re lonely like that. to be fair B.S. drove me around, helped me feel better, let me be the (rightfully) upset, but not less upset, drunk girl, stood me up when i needed to be sick, and all that nice stuff, but STILL, even though i was pretty obviously not all together there, started to put his hands on me and up my clothes.
SERIOUSLY: to every young girl that isn’t getting the attention from boys that she wants, i promise all that WILL change when you get a little older and start going to bars. it seems ridiculously simple, but that’s cause it is. i can’t tell you how quality the boys will be or anything like that, but attention you will get, usually seeking it or not, at least after you’ve broken your shell and had a couple drinks.
now its the next morning: i’m slightly hung over, do seem to have some nastiness on my new suede boots despite my best efforts when i was sick, remember knocking on the door drunk last night so that my pop would let me in since i’d left my keys in my car parked downtown, lost one phone, and have a text on my other phone (yeah i know its a bit silly that i have two phones but haven’t wanted to get get rid of my old phone and rely on the new phone that i got with Him back in september when i’d still thought things with Him were “on track”) from M.R. saying that “no one has ever made me feel the way you did tonight.”
i’m guessing the text is a reference to me making him feel bad for seeming so chummy with Him last night. when i came back to the bar where He and a bunch of other people had been earlier i walked in to hear that He and M.R. had apparently been getting along very well, all that blood-brothers-we’ve-been-deployed-we-know-what-its-like “stuff” and so i gave M.R. a really hard time cause he’s supposed to be MY friend, be on MY side not only because i’ve been treated badly and put through ridiculous shit that you’re not supposed to do to the people you love, are inlove with, and supposedly “committed” yourself and the rest of your life to, but just because he’s MY friend. i’m guessing this text, which was apparently sent after at least three failed attempts to call me, is supposed to be some sort of an i-feel-bad-about-hurting-you-and-being-at-all-chummy-with-Him text, but seriously, SERIOUSLY- to all you young girls who aren’t getting the attention you want now from boys, do not get texts like this and get week in the knees, or feel touched, or anything like that, cause even if there is some sincerity and sweetness to it, which there probably is, its not enough to make up for how lonely and by default desperate he, really any boy if the time is right, is. if you give in to him his loneliness will fade and you’ll be left holding onto whatever pieces of yourself you can find. if might take a while, but more than more than likely it will all fade and you’ll end up the even lonelier, desperate one. don’t start or continue anything, if you can and its not already too late, out of loneliness and desperation. in the end you wont respect yourself or at least you shouldn’t anyway.
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its pretty weird not knowing what you should feel like or should think. its even weirder not not knowing what you do feel or do think. really its more scary than weird. to be so full of questions “normally” and then to sudden be caught mute with out any impulse to do or act or think because of being too scared at not recognizing yourself even as a ”familiar acquaintance.”
the first time that i am currently aware of not knowing myself was about a month ago. i layed there and it enveloped me. the longer i layed there with my eyes closed (closing your eyes is a very dangerous thing. in some ways its such a comfort: you get to block out all of the external world or at least as much as your mind will let you. but in other ways it is a terrible thing, because there is nothing, absolutely nothing around to distract you from yourself. on this day closing my eyes felt like a terrible thing.) the deeper i felt ignorant of who i was, who i was supposed to be, who i had been, who i’d thought i’d been.
its funny, figuring out and/or deciding who it is you are and are going to be. its funny how much who you’re with makes a difference. i first felt this funniness after He left.* we were still together after all, but physically i was completely alone for the first time, give or take a few months at a time, in almost three years. i knew that i had “learned” from Him, “grown” and a bunch of other nice, positive things too, but it wasn’t until a few months after He’d left that i started to see the most striking simularities in how i was acting now that He was gonna be gone for a good while and how i had acted before i’d ever met Him, been friends with Him, let Him into my future, changed myself for Him (sometimes at His direct request but more often at what i sensed, acurately or not, to be His subconscious request)… it was while He was gone* that i first started to see who i could have been, who it seemed that at least on some level i still was, without Him.
its dificult now, cause now i have some awareness that i’ve not been and still aren’t completely “myself” who ever that person may be. there’s so much that i’m curious about, mostly physical curiosities, that i don’t feel free to explore if we stay together, but its not really far to blame this sense of restriction on Him, i don’t think, cause i feel like they’re restrictions that i’m imposing on myself, but this is something different.
the other day as i laid there, in His arms, with my eyes closed most of the time, not knowing who i was, it was terrifying. it sent me into what at the time i though was the first panic attack that i’d had in around ten months, a few months after He’d left* and i was at school and just not adjusting well to being what i thought was alone. thats another thing i realized when i reflected on this attack later: this was not the first attack i’d had since last november/december bach when i’d get them daily, this was just the first one that had come up out of no where, that i didn’t have a specific event to explain, and i was somehow rational enough to recognize while it was happening which is probably a lot of why it was as frightening as it was and lasted so long.
any way, i don’t know. there is just a lot that i don’t know right now, or don’t want to know maybe. its like i think i know whats right,** what’s gonna allow me to be most like the strong, empowered person that i have been, but that means giving up on having an accurate perception of the last four years. i’m not afraid of “having made a mistake” cause thats not what i feel that i’ve done (i kinda probably don’t believe in mistakes) just to have had such poor, poor perception of pretty much everything is really upsetting.
if you ever find that you don’t “know” “yourself” i’d figure that it will be terrifying. i guess my advice is to try to be excited about it cause its kinda like a chance to start over, kinda, but also to pay attention cause even though its exciting i’d think you wouldn’t want to end up in that same place very many times.
* i reckon this warrents furth explanation, but some other time.
** also something i don’t feel like getting into right now, probably for my own “protection”