Twisted Beauty

Rants, Raves, and Ridiculousness

Poems and Stuff

Circus Freak

My heart is aching
My back is breaking
I watch as it falls apart.

I bend for you
What more can i do
You can't take anything else.

I see it burn to the ground
I'm tied up and bound
I'm not crazy, I'm just petrified.

Push it away
Say it's all okay
The truth is just another lie.

You can't see me cry
You can't tell that I've died
Emptiness has always been my friend.

I lose myself
Sometimes I need help
I'm waiting for you to walk away.

Don't turn around
I'm down in the ground
There's nothing more for you to see.


I Don't Care What You Do

Bend me
Break me
Shake me
Pull me
Kill me
Push me
Love me
Hate me
Want me
Kill me
Use me
Do me
Hit me
Kick me
Kill me
Bruise me
Throw me
Drop me
Show me
Kill me
Slap me
Drug me
Squeeze me
Scratch me
Kill me

Just don't ever leave me.

Done

I can't do this anymore. I can't do any of it. I'm done. I'm broken. I can't do it.
This is why I shouldn't make plans. When I am making the plans I know that things will end up this way.

Such grand plans I had for tonight and today. Truly grand. After the failure of last night I moved my plans to today so I wasn't very upset then. I mean... I was... but... I knew today would be grand so it didn't matter that yesterday fell through. Now today is falling through. I really even tried to start out on the right note. I thought I'd send you a picture and get things back to where they were yesterday before things got messed up. And it failed. Miserably. Instead it just led to fighting because you were busy and I was disappointed and everything just sucked from then on. It makes me feel stupid for trying. I'm trying not to feel like the scorned or rebuffed girlfriend but it sucks. I really went out on a limb yesterday. Unfortunately it seems that that limb broke. You were busy and interested in other things at the time and the same has happened today.

I feel angry and sad and disappointed and frustrated because I know if I tell you any of this you will internalize it and say that you are just a failure and a disappointment when that's not what I want you to think. I intellectually understand that you were/are busy. Emotionally though... it sucks. I want to be wanted. I went out of my way to make you feel wanted, to try to tell you how much I wanted you and I don't remember the last time you did that for me. Maybe I'm just getting caught up in my head. Maybe you have shown me and I just don't remember. But I don't feel it. I don't feel like you think about me sexually at all anymore. And I can't even bring it up or talk about it because of the other shit that happened over the summer and because of what you'll think I'm saying but not.

I'm so tired of fighting again. I don't understand why we're fighting. I don't understand why things are so fucked up again.

Weak

I don't know what to do anymore. I don't know who to turn to. I don't know how to help. I don't know how to be enough. I need to be enough... I don't know how to try to get what I want without being selfish. At least sometimes. I don't know how to seek reassurance without being selfish. If I try to talk to you and you turn me down again and again and again... soon I'm going to assume that the answer will always be no. I want to be the girl in my profile picture. I want to look like that on the inside. I want to feel like that. Fake it til it's real.

I don't have the strength.

Gambling is Bad

I just made plans to see C over my birthday weekend. Wanna make bets on whether or not it will actually happen?

How Bad Was It?

I need a reason to wake up tomorrow.

That's how bad.

Reminder

I think I’m starting to get it.
Responsibility. Relationships. They go hand-in-hand… but not to the extent that I’ve been taking it.
I’m so busy taking care of you that… well… several things happen.

  1.        I don’t take care of me.
  2.        I don’t take care of ‘us.’
  3.        I fail at taking care of you anyway. You are a big boy and I am a big girl. Just because I choose to talk to you about almost everything I think and feel, doesn’t mean you will do the same or that you have to. Maybe I shouldn’t. That’s not the point. It’s like you say, I’m forcing it, so I’m fucking it. I’m “forcing” myself to take care of you (though it’s not really force… but yeah) so I’m fucking up taking care of you.
  4.        I stress myself out.
  5.        I stress you out. I don’t think you know what to do with me or how to handle it.
  6.        I get so bogged down in responsibility that I hold it against you. I upset the balance. There’s no way you could ever equal it and you shouldn’t.
  7.        It raises my expectations of you to a level that is unreachable which leads to more disappointment.
  8.        I don’t have time to love you.
  9.        I am not as honest, bluntly honest, as I should be.
  10.        I don’t show you that I love you.
It does make it look like I just want to fix you and be the one that never left. I totally get why you think that. You’re right. I need to calm down. I need to stop being the mother you didn’t have. I can’t make up for your past. I can’t prove that not everyone wants to hurt you. I can’t prove anything. All I can do is love you to the best of my ability and see what happens. Your life is not my responsibility. It Is not my job to right any wrongs. NOT MY JOB. I have to stop trying to be perfect. I have to stop comparing myself to your exes. I have to stop being afraid I’ll be like everyone else. I have to truly be me. I have to JUST be me. Take the pressure off. NOT MY JOB. You are not a job. You are the opposite. I am not to treat you as another responsibility. I am to relax and enjoy my time with you, no matter how long that is. I am to trust you. I am to love you from the heart, not the brain. I am to care in healthy ways. I am to take care of me.

The Things I Wanted to Say

  • You'll be in bed soon enough, so you won't have to deal with me anymore.
  • I'd hardly call it a rage. Definitely in comparison to what I wanted to say. 
  • You made it worse on purpose. It's not always just my fault.
  • When you say nothing but "ok" 9 times in a row and I tell you that I want you to stop, it's not funny when you don't. 
  • When you tell me about how hot you think another woman is it doesn't make me feel good about myself. Not when you tell me that what makes her hot are things that you continuously tell me that I don't have. It actually makes me feel pretty shitty.
  • When you tell me I won't understand what you're thinking or feeling, it makes me feel like a failure.
  • When I am trying not to argue and you are an ass, it pisses me off and makes me feel like I am the only one trying. 
  • When I can't tell you what I think because it will cause an argument, it makes me feel like shit.
  • When I have to shut my mouth and not argue and play the role of the docile girlfriend it makes me twitch and want to punch you in the face just to prove that I am strong.
  • I don't care about the fucking movies!!!!!!
  • I want you to talk to me.
  • I want you to WANT to talk to me.
  • I want you to call me without me asking.
  • I want to talk to you every night and I want you to actually want the same thing.
  • I want you to want me.
  • I want you to love me.
  • I want to stop fighting.
  • I want to make you happy.
  • I want you to make me happy.
  • I want you to try.
  • Do you love me at all?
  • Why?
  • I hate you.
  • You hurt me without knowing it.
  • You hurt me without meaning to.
  • You hurt me when you can't get up the energy to call me and tell me goodnight. 
  • You hurt me when you put everything before me.
  • You hurt me when you don't make time for me.
  • You hurt me when you wait until you are exhausted to call me.
  • You hurt me when you say you don't care.
  • I love you.
  • Don't go.
  • Please call me.
  • I miss you.
  • Do you know what happens when you leave, even to go to bed? I am filled with despair. Literally... despair.
  • I feel helpless.
  • You have too much power over me, whether you want it or not.
  • I'm afraid I could lose myself...
  • I'm sorry I get carried away.
  • I'm sorry I get upset.
  • I'm sorry I don't have myself under the kind of control you do.
  • Stop killing me and just snuggle...
  • Make love to me....
  • Treat me like I'm precious to you.
  • Make me feel loved.
  • Make me feel special.
  • Make me... feel.
  • Care.
  • Treat me like your girlfriend and not just a friend that's a girl.
  • Treat me like you love me.
  • I'm not sure if you noticed, but I AM the jilted girlfriend.
  • What were you thinking about after you read that blog?

Storytime


My life is dull. My life has always been kinda dull. The only time my life hasn't been dull has been when I was going through some kind of traumatic experience.
I don't have happy stories to tell.
I don't have interesting, fun, or romantic stories to tell.
The only stories I have are fucked up and depressing in one way or another.
I haven't had many relationships. Any that I have had didn't start or end well.
I've never really been on a first date.
I've never gone through the normal stages of a relationship. By that I mean I've never met someone out somewhere, gotten their phone number or vice versa, and then gone out with them. It just never happened that way for me. I guess the closest was Robert... I met him at work and that night he asked me out to dinner. After dinner we went back to his place and ended up having sex. I got home at like 3 in the morning and had to babysit the next day. I somehow got him to come over to the house where I was babysitting and yeah... that ended up being a pretty big mistake. That whole relationship was just horrible. The way it ended was traumatizing. The way it ended the second time was sickening.
It's not so much that I missed out on life... It's that I never had the opportunity. In high school I was in band and that's really the only thing I cared about. I don't fit in with my age group. I never have. I never went out... Ok. That's a lie. I went out... once. With Keisha. We went to a club in Nashville, I danced with an African man and he protected me and Keisha from most of the other drunkards as we danced. This was helpful when one particular drunkard wasn't pleased when Keisha wanted nothing more than dancing.
See... I was not and still am not wanted by the masses. I have never had to deal with unwanted gropings or anything of the kind. Keisha however... she has always been wanted by the masses. Big boobs, dancer body, cute face. Really, what more can you ask for?
So. Because of that and the fact that I grew up in a small town, I missed out on a lot of experiences.
I don't generally feel cheated or anything. It doesn't really matter. 
But sometimes I do wish that I could have had a life like that for a little while. 
There was Kirk though... Kirk was probably the closest to a high school kind of fling that most people have. I don't really remember how it happened, but somehow Keisha and I ended up at this pool hall with Kirk, Alex, and Jason. I literally knew none of these people. As we got there, Keisha got someone to get her a Smirnoff and we sat and talked for a bit. Well. I didn't talk. I don't talk to strangers. Kirk was enamored with Keisha. She knew all of these people, especially Kirk. Anyway. At some point I ended up shooting pool with Jason. He was a big guy with a fuzzy face and hair that was a little too long. He was actually really sweet and I walked away with quite the crush on him. See, he talked to me about philosophy. I had just decided that I was going to major in philosophy and he allowed me to engage in my first philosophical conversation. He was a Nietzsche fan. I of course knew nothing of him or any philosopher really, so I had little stars in my eyes. Anyway. At some point Kirk pulls me to the side and asks me about Keisha (yeah, I'm *that* girl). She's  tdating a drummer at the time and has been for a good while. Kirk has no chance in hell. I tell him that but of course he isn't deterred and tries to get her number from me and when that doesn't work, from her. Anyway. Eventually we leave and everything's cool. All in all it was fun. Sure, I was the fat, ugly friend who was probably just getting in the way, but still. Anyway. The next day at school Kirk comes up to me and tells me that his buddy Alex wanted my number. After giving him some kind of look, I gave it to him, vaguely excited. No one had ever tried to get my number before. The next day I think, Kirk comes up to me and tells me that he lied, that he actually wanted my number. I looked at him like he was insane and told him that I wasn't gonna fall for his bullshit and that I knew he was only doing this to get close to Keisha. ... I should explain at this point that Kirk is... hot. Like... hot. Fit without being bulky, tall, solid. Cutest face ever. Just sayin. In other words, out of my league doesn't even begin to cover it. I think at this point I'd had one boyfriend and you can barely even call it that (unless you count late night dates in my front yard as my mother slept a relationship... that's a separate story though, and another almost normal experience for me). So anyway. He assured me that that wasn't the case and I figured I might as well go for it. So yeah. It began. It was short. By short I mean I don't think it lasted more than a week. In that time he was... like a fucking puppy. He would meet me in the halls at school like a proper boyfriend and ignored Keisha. I'm pretty sure she even pulled him aside and told him that he better not be up to anything stupid (like using me to get to her). Anyway, I didn't really get invested. I wasn't that stupid. But yeah, he ended up coming to my work and sitting there and talking to me for like an hour. My boss was really not happy. But really... Kirk helped me get over some stuff. That night he kissed me at work because I told him he wouldn't. I never thought that he'd do that really. But yeah. It made me feel better about myself. We don't have sex. Which is kinda surprising considering the number of times we were alone in his room. But yeah. Another thing I learned from Kirk. We've all got our insecurities. He was afraid to do anything because he has a small penis. Seriously. We're laying there making out and he informs me of his small penis. And of course I was afraid to do anything because, well, I didn't look like the girls he'd been with. His ex, for example with the red hair, big boobs, and cute little body. Yeah. He assured me that i had nothing to worry about though and he was the type that if he said something, you believed him. So I did. Another fear conquered, woo! Anyway, this pointless story comes to an end when the next day Kirk breaks it off with me because I'm too good for him. Which is entirely true, but still, I never would have said that. 
Aaaaaanyway. I don't think I meant to get into all that. I hadn't really thought about all that in a good while. But yeah. You get the point. 
I have no idea where I was going with this. 
I was depressed though and now I'm not so I'm just going to cut off here for now. 
One day you'll get the other stories. Maybe. Geoff is almost interesting. And Dominic is one hell of a saga. Robert is just a fucking nightmare. Chase was the only remotely sweet one and I ended up fucking him over royally. Tim was a short one that did more harm than good. Van was... good for me... kinda... but it was definitely NOT a relationship. 
Yeah. That's all.

**Edit: Josh. I should also talk about Josh. That was another almost normal experience. And Chris. The epic story of Chris and I needs to be told at some point. And...... Hm.... I think that's it. Yeah.

Close Your Eyes, Make A Wish

I hate nights like tonight. I never know how they happen. I never remember why I'm so fucking depressed, why I'm crying my eyes out like there's no tomorrow. 

Side note, in response to the text I just received: I'm sorry that I interrupted your sleep to tell you I loved you and I'm sorry that I wanted... maybe even needed... to hear it back. I know you know the feeling, so I don't know why you'd be so surprised.

Anyway...

Since we can't seem to actually fucking converse, I'm going to tell you what happened with me and why I reacted the way I did here and I would like an actual response to this in the form of an email. Preferably tomorrow, but god forbid I make such demands. Besides, as you have made clear, tomorrow is going to be bad enough for you. I'm sure I'll be making it worse in plenty of ways throughout the day, so just respond as soon as you have the energy.

While I'm thinking about it, do you know what I was thinking while you were telling me about your day tomorrow? No, you don't. Because I didn't tell you. Because... well. It doesn't matter why, I'm telling you now. I was thinking that while you're out doing all of that, I'm going to be sitting at home thinking about how cruel it is that I have the morning and most of the day off and could actually sit and talk to you but you have a busy day and that's not going to happen. At all. We might get to talk in the morning for an hour but I doubt it. Because we will both be dealing with the residual shit from tonight and neither of us will want to bring it up because there won't be time. So it will be a lot of just sitting there, not actually talking. Then you will leave. We will text little, as you will be busy. You will start to text me more as you get to Suzie's and have nothing better to do but it won't be anything meaningful. I won't complain though. It will be nice to have something. Then, when you finally get home, I will be leaving for or will have already left for work. I will text you throughout my shift though it won't be much and you'll be tired anyway so you'll probably want to take advantage of the silence. By the time I get home from work it is likely that you will be asleep as you will probably sleep like shit tonight and thus will be very tired and will not want to stay up to talk to me. And I can't blame you. At all. It only makes sense. But I will get sad because I didn't get to talk to you and either suck it up and not show you that it bothers me so as to better take care of you, actually be ok with it, or say something that makes you feel horrible and stay up until I get home so we can have a miserable 5 minute conversation and go to bed.

That's why I was upset. That is the train of thought that followed after I remembered that I was supposed to be up there tomorrow. Seeing you. Being with you. Hugging you... So please, forgive my tears. They were actually founded. I think so anyway.

Now. As to when I got home tonight and what ensued.

You have told me that you can't be trusted. And then you get pissed when I show a sign of doubt. You have told me that you don't talk to new people because when you do, you are tempted to do things you shouldn't. And yet you get pissed when I consider the possibilities. How is this fair?

When I came home, I was happy. I was eager to share my joy with you and I knew it was going to be a great night. I was going to make you happy, we were going to have a nice, somewhat long conversation on the phone and we were going to go to bed blissfully happy. I guess my psychic powers were a little off. Instead, when I got home you were busy. Not only were you busy, but you were busy with a new girl who intrigued you enough that you could talk to her for seven hours. I felt completely and utterly replaced. Then I realized I should be happy that you found someone you could talk to. But I felt completely and utterly replaced. I felt like I no longer had any significant role in your life. Everything I do for you can be done by other people. 

As I was leaving for work today, I felt more horrible than you can possibly imagine. I felt like I didn't have time for you and I wanted to shoot myself for that. I always thought I would never be too busy for you. I still say that I will always make time for you. I text you from work and risk getting caught and written up because I love you and can't leave you alone all day. Except today you weren't even alone... If I hadn't texted you, you would have been fine. Fuck, I'm talking in circles. *breathes*

When I left I was hoping that you would talk to me when I got home or would actually send that email. I was hoping that I could redeem myself for not being able to stay. 

I don't even know how to explain everything that happened when I learned about this new person. It wasn't even so much that I thought you would cheat, as I said. That really wasn't what I was afraid of. It was just that... I already felt so bad... and then I was so happy and so ready to take care of you... only to find out that someone else already had. Someone else was filling your day and making you happy. So in a way, I snapped. No... not in a way... I did snap. Something snapped. I was gone. From then on, it was a battle. Everything was a battle. You gave up. I begged for reassurance and you preached to me about how it would do no good. Even though I was telling you it would. Your fight was gone. You couldn't even say anything. I don't know what I'm supposed to do in those instances. I don't know how to make you understand. 

My head is still spinning. This isn't what I wanted to say. This isn't coming out right.

Stop assuming. Stop thinking you know what I want even when I tell you different. Stop giving up. Stop deciding that you're going to lose before you even try.

I hate myself for telling you to stop. I feel like I'm giving you rules. 

Fuck. 

Now I want to give up. Now my fight is gone.

I think you're going to read this wrong. I think you're not going to understand. I think this might be hopeless... I think... I think.... I don't know what I think.

Sometimes it seems like the only thing that keeps us together is the fact that I'm so goddamn stubborn. Like you would just roll over and let it be done if I didn't stop you and force you to talk or something. It's depressing.

I don't like it.

I'm so tired...

I am running myself thin and I know it. I am trying to make you my number one priority but you won't allow it. I am trying to take care of you and you won't allow it. If I am not able to talk to you, you get depressed. When I try to move things around so that I will be able to talk to you, you act like I'm an idiot for doing that and that you don't want to talk. It's ridiculous. 

God, my head is still spinning. I know this isn't making sense. I know you're probably still not going to understand and even if you do you're going to think I acted stupidly and illogically and you will still be annoyed and maybe even hate me a little. Or a lot.

I don't try to make you feel guilty. Maybe I should just not tell you everything. Maybe some things really are better left unsaid. Maybe I should just not tell you some of the things I feel. I should just let you sleep when you're tired and try to deal with it myself. Obviously keeping you up tonight did me no good as it's 2:30 and I'm no closer to sleep than I was an hour ago.

Fuck.

I hate me. I really fucking do.

I hate leaning on you so much. I hate looking to you for answers. I hate that I have to do these things. I fucking hate me! Jesus!

No wonder I have issues remembering you love me. What the fuck is there to love? What the fuck do you get out of this relationship? The way I see it, I'm just making it worse. I sure as fuck don't make you happy.

God.... this is gonna make me suicidal. Fucking depressing as shit and getting nowhere.

Ugh.

If I stop writing I'll feel so much worse. Because there's still shit to say. But I don't know what and I don't know how to say it. Can you just crawl inside my mind please? Just see all the pictures and words whirling around and try to make sense of it? Please? It's kinda like a spiral. You'll like it.

You make me so goddamn happy so much of the time. I can't let you go. Even when you're pushing me away, I can't let go. I love you too damn much.

I should let tonight go though. I should just... try to live with the fact that... I'm not going to be here all the time. And I will hope to god that you still talk to me... And... not fall in love with someone else. Someone who can actually be around.


Maybe I should let you fool around online. What's the worst that happens? Other than forgetting about me and just deciding you don't need or want me at all, of course... God. I really have to loosen the reigns. You'll either love me and stay with me or you won't. Holding you with a death grip doesn't make it less likely that you'll slip through my fingers. Makes it more likely actually. I have been making progress with that. I thought I'd been doing better. I had been doing better. And I'm sure after tonight that wouldn't have changed. I wasn't going to change anything. I was just going to worry more probably. About this mystery girl. Who is a model. Whom you claim not to be attracted to. Just as Dominic did before he started dating that person two days after he left me.

Anyway....

Maybe you love me in a way that I can't understand... that's the only feasible reason I can think of for why you'd still be with me after all this shit.

I don't care about the girl. I don't. Whatever. Doesn't matter. She is irrelevant. Who she is is irrelevant. What matters is the fear beneath it. That is what needs to be addressed. That doesn't mean I'm not going to attach all of that to her again, but yeah. This is my moment of clarity when I realize she... in and of herself... is not the problem. My fears are the problem. She just brought them to the surface.

Sigh.

I really fucking hope you got something positive out of that. I really fucking hope you understand something a little more. I really hope you'd fight for me... I really hope you won't give up. And I really hope you know I love you.

I do love you. I love my fantasies of you and all that jazz but I love you. I don't want to change you. I just want to help you communicate better. I love you. That's the only difference between my fantasy you and the real you. Just so you know.

It's 2:45 now. I have to call you in 6 hours. So. I hope you're asleep by now. I hope you still love me, even though you didn't say it. I hope you don't hate me as much as I think you do.

I love you. Seriously.

P.S. I found this tonight. I thought it was kind of fitting.

close your eyes, make a wish.

If I had a dollar for every wish I'd ever made, I'd have a lot of dollars.
It's funny.
You sit there, and know it won't come true.
But deep down, you hope.
With all your might.
That maybe, magic does happen.
And our wishes will come true.

I don't know if it's a good thing that as kid's we're told magic happens.
It doesn't.
Not like in fairy tales.
Someone can't just wave a wand, and everything is ok.
You don't have a fairy-godmother that turns you into a princess.
And it's sad.
And to be honest, I feel let down.

I want to find a genie, a little elf, some magic dust.
Anything.
Depressed.

Tired.

Fuck.

Tiff's not answering....

Cats... yay.

To Be Sent...... I Think.

Damaged, TLC
I know I'm kinda strange, to you sometimes
Don't always say, what's on my mind
You know that I've been hurt, by some guy
But I don't wanna mess up this time

[BRIDGE]
And I really really really care
And I really really really want you
And I think I'm kinda scared
Cos I don't want to lose you
If you really really really care
Then maybe you can hang through
I hope you understand
It's nothing to you

[CHORUS]

My heart's at a low
I'm so much to manage
I think you should know that
I've been damaged
I'm falling in love
There's one disadvantage
I think you should know that I've been damaged

I might look through your stuff, for what I don't wanna find
Or I might just set you up, to see if you're all mine
I'm a little paranoid, from what I've been through
Don't know what you got yourself into

And I really really really care (And I care about you so much)
And I really really really want you (I really do want you)
And I think I'm kinda scared (But I'm scared with every touch)
Cos I don't want to lose you (Cos I don't want to lose you)
If you really really really care (If you care for me like you say)
Then maybe you can hang through (Then maybe you can hang through)
I hope you understand (I hope you understand)
It's nothing to you (It's nothing to you, you)

My heart's at a low (low)
I'm so much to manage
I think you should know that (I think you should know)
I've been damaged
I'm falling in love (I'm falling in love)
There's one disadvantage
I think you should know that I've been damaged (I think you should know that)

My heart's at a low
I'm so much to manage (I'm so much to manage)
I think you should know that (I think you should know that)
I've been damaged (I've been damaged)
I'm falling in love (I love you so)
There's one disadvantage (I love you so)
I think you should know that I've been damaged

And I really really really want you
And I think I'm kinda scared
Cos I don't want to lose you
If you really really really care
Then maybe you can hang through
I hope you understand
It's nothing to you (It's nothing to you)

My heart's at a low
I'm so much to manage
I think you should know that (Ooh I think you should know I've been damaged)
I've been damaged (I've been damaged baby)
I'm falling in love (Falling in love with you baby, yeah)
There's one disadvantage
I think you should know that I've been damaged

My heart's at a low
I'm so much to manage
I think you should know that
I've been damaged
I'm falling in love
There's one disadvantage
I think you should know that I've been damaged


I feel sorry for you sometimes. I feel bad for letting you love me. I know that I am ridiculous at times. I know that I am in denial of this as well. I am a lot of things I always feared I would be… needy, clingy, and controlling topping the list. I know that sometimes it’s not so bad… but I know other times it’s gotta drive you nuts. I am sacrificing your comfort for mine. I wish I didn't feel so much better when I know what you're doing all the time. I wish I knew... what to do... how to fix it... I don't feel like I need to be fixed though. I thought I was past all that... I thought I was already fixed. And I sure as hell don't want you to fix me. I know you think that's your role in life... that you fix people and then they move on. I don't want you to think that with me. The thought of losing you is something that I literally can't think about for more than a few seconds. I tried tonight. Tears gathered within 3 seconds of imagining life without you. Perhaps that makes me weak, but it is the truth. I don't know if you understand how truly vulnerable I have made myself to you. I did something I told myself I would never do again... I built my life... my future around someone else. You. I opened up and became transparent to someone... something that I've never fully done with another person. Not even with someone who's paid to make me open up and be transparent. You know everything I can possibly tell you. That is a really big deal. If at any point you turned against me I would be destroyed.

Sometimes I get frustrated because I have my walls down where you're concerned and it seems that you still have yours up. Not all of them. I understand that. And I understand that you probably had a hell of a lot more walls than I did to begin with so I understand why you would still have some. Unfortunately, my understanding hasn't been enough. I am not patient... I haven't been very considerate either... And I definitely haven't been selfless. You have been so amazing and I am so comfortable telling you most things that... I think that's caused a problem. I expect that you would be the same way when it is not your personality to do so and so I overlook your wants and needs. In other words, I expect you to just tell me or to complain or talk to me or whatever when you're not getting something... like I do. And so when you don't I suppose I assume that that means everything is okay. I want you to know that I genuinely care about your wants and needs, your thoughts and feelings. Just because I don't ask, doesn't mean I don't care. I do. Please remember that. I will also try to remember that you are not me... you do not think the same way I do and I shouldn't act like you do.

I haven't had many serious relationships. Only one other than you really. So... I don't know what I'm doing. I don't really know what the future's going to be like... I don't know what I'm supposed to do a lot of the time. Even though I may not be able to fathom "forever," I know that I want it with you. 

I don't particularly know what my main point here is... 

I just... feel bad. For bitching. For not being considerate. Honestly... for not being good enough for you. Don't misunderstand, I do not think myself below you and I don't find you faultless... but I haven't been good enough to you or for you. I hope you know that I bitch because I feel that comfortable with you... that I think you will understand. It may not make sense... but I would never do that with someone I didn't trust. I've always just rolled over and taken anything I could get... the fact that I'm no longer doing that is actually good. I just think maybe I went a bit too far and now need to pull myself in.

I don't know how to fix the fears or paranoia. I just don't. I explained to you the other day about that. About the connections that are made in my mind and how it leads to these things. That is the best explanation I have. I don't know if it helps or not.

I trust you.

You are worthy of my trust. You will not do anything to break my trust or make me regret trusting you. You love me. 

I will figure it out. Or better... we will figure it out. Now that I have pinpointed my issues (with the mental connections) hopefully we'll be able to figure out something that helps. Or I will. It is not your responsibility after all.

I never want you to feel like you're on a leash again. I never want you to feel unappreciated again. I am sure it will happen... but I will start working on it again.

I love you.

Now. To the important bit.

What do you want from me? What would you like me to do or not do or stop doing or start doing? What do you need? How can I make your life better? What can I do to make you want to wake up in the morning? How are you? What is your mental health status? Emotional health status? Physical health status?

Please do not dismiss this. I do care. I do want to know. I really do. I am not just saying it.

I fear that I will become that person that fucks up and then does this apology thing just to draw you back in. I fear that is what you think. I hope this is not the case... I think I just need practice.

Not a Real Philosopher

So... I was fucking around on Fu tonight instead of doing something productive like writing my paper. I got the bright idea that I should rate someone's shit and get some points again. So I figured I'd go through Chris' again. It had been a while.

Meh.

He's had too many girlfriends. I found the profile of this one chick that he dated a few years ago through a photo comment that she left. Curiosity got the better of me and I had to click. Then I kept clicking. And kept clicking... *sigh* I don't know why I'm all sad about it... I guess I liked to think that I was the first person he seriously considered marrying.. even thought I knew I wasn't before this.. but whatever. But this chick. Sigh. Fuck. I can't explain. But it's just... her. Because I know the hell he went through when she left. Ok, not really, but I know the general idea. I met him about a year after that.

Meh.

I don't know. I should have stopped clicking. Curiosity killed the cat, y'know.

I need to keep typing. I need to get to the bottom of why I feel so... depressed because of this. I guess I feel like I don't really have him even though I have him.

I also got to thinking about what life will be like when I'm actually there. Like... how fucking weird is that gonna be, yo? Hell, I've never done this before. It's been a rough few weeks for us because of stress and such and usually I would have just fucking left... but for once... I'm here. I'm staying. I have to. For once... I really do trust him. Thoughts still run through my head... the fears are still there trying to take over... but I'm working on it. I trust him not to do anything that would hurt me. Not intentionally anyway.

I wonder if it would be better if I were there. I wonder if every time I think that I'm setting myself up for failure and disappointment.

Just... seeing her... knowing... what he felt... seeing things he said to her... seeing how much he loved her... seeing... god... it just looks like he loved her like he loves me. Ya know? I guess that's really it. It's not really jealousy if it's something in the past, is it? I don't know. They even had a wedding date... *sigh* I'm just... sad. And maybe I am jealous. Because I'm not there and even though we plan on getting married things aren't settled enough that we could possibly think of setting a date. All the practicalities are still up in the air. Maybe I'm just afraid that it's going to end before we get to that point. Maybe we'll get tired of waiting. Maybe ... maybe it's just not enough.

It might sound like I'm mad at him. I'm not. Not in the slightest actually... I just feel... hurt. For no good reason. Not like "he did something to hurt me" kind of thing... just... wounded... like a bruise... Maybe this is all a part of not feeling good enough. Just not being enough.

God, I feel like I'm all over the place.

No wonder I can't concentrate. My head is so fucking scattered I can't concentrate on anything.

I just... I love him. So much. There was a moment the other day where I thought... I thought he was leaving me... I can't even tell you what that did to me. I cracked into a million pieces on the inside.

I know I get jealous way too often and over things that I have no reason to be jealous over... I don't really know how to make that stop. I know that ties into not feeling like I'm enough. I feel bad that I'm not there. I feel bad that he's stuck being in love with me, someone who can't be there with him... for him. You can't help who you fall in love with and we're all victims of love, right? So he just can't help it. He doesn't have a choice. Get it? He's stuck. Yet somehow it doesn't work the other way around in my mind, lol. I guess I should work on that line of logic a little more. Because he can always leave... so there's really no stuck... except if he loves me then he can't. Sigh. I dunno. I'm thinking too much and getting all philosophical or some shit. This is why philosophers commit suicide. Good thing I'm just a fledgling.

Running on Fumes

First of all, I am extremely tired so this may not make a lot of sense. Ask me if I care.

This has been one of the most stressful, weirdest, worst months I've had in a very long time. Trust me, that's saying something. Between a psycho roommate trying to get me killed, Chris and I having a horrible week, sickness, more sickness, and a fuck ton of school work that I haven't been able to do, I am ready to call it quits. Seriously. I don't know why I get up in the mornings.

Jesus fucking Christ. Every time my door opens my heart skips a beat. I can't live here. I just can't. My anxiety is so fucking high right now that I can't relax, no matter what. Which explains why I'm so goddamn tired. I've been going to bed at very reasonable times and waking up at the normal time but I can't actually rest. I get a few hours every night of good sleep. It's just not enough apparently.

School's killing me. The past 2 weeks have been useless. I haven't been able to get anything done because of all the drama and bullshit around here. I have so much to do and I can't do any of it. Life keeps getting in the fucking way.

God, I just want to sleep.

One of my friends is in the hospital. No work done tonight. None tomorrow either I'm sure.

This is why I should have done it earlier in the semester. I tried... kinda. Sigh. My fault. I know.

I wanna give up so fucking bad.

Thinking about school gives me heart palpitations and I can feel an anxiety attack coming. I could feel it this morning. It's going to happen. Thinking about it restricts my airways. It's close.

There's just too much.

I'm losing my appetite again. I eat two-ish times a day. Usually I get one good meal and one or two meals that are actually just snacks.

God I hate Liz. She is literally the source of so much of my anxiety and tension right now.

I miss Chris. But I know it's actually better that he's not here. Too much stress. But I do miss him. It's not too bad right now... but yeah. Whatever.

I love Tiff. Her life is turning to shit again. I don't know how to help her. I don't know what to say. I'm losing it.

Blah. I'm alone and feel crowded all at once. So it feels like there's no way to fix it.

The breathing trouble is starting.

I'm going to lay down and read and wait on Chris to call. Or just fall asleep and hope I hear the phone. I'm sure we'll only talk for a couple of minutes so it's not really worth staying awake. Not when I'm so tired and tomorrow promises to be equally draining.

Newsflash

I'm still alone and I'm making Chris miserable.
Life fails.

Realizations

I am alone.

I'm Touching You!


I have managed to lose touch with everyone again. :( I'm sorry. 

I like to pretend that people miss me when I disappear and don't talk for a week or so. Ignorance is bliss and all that.

I had a rough couple of days, what with sickness, stress, and a mild freak-out. They have all been dealt with and I do feel much better. Ok, I lied. They haven't *all* been dealt with but I still feel better. I need to do a lot of reading before Friday morning's Modern Philosophy quiz and I don't have the book. I also need to make sure I have a 10-15 page draft to turn in to my Social Justice professor on Monday as well as my proposal for how to curb the problem of overpopulation. Oy. Now I'm stressed again. But that's ok, it's almost over.

I had a new roommate move in yesterday. It's very weird and I don't think I like it. I got very used to living alone and it's quite an adjustment. I suppose it's good though because I will be moving in with Alison and her son in August. *scared face* I've been... not worried... but thinking about that lately. I dunno how this whole living with a kid thing is going to go. I'm hopeful that all will be well... but... yeah... I'm sure it will be ok and I know it will keep me from getting depressed and refusing to leave my house. Alison can kick my ass if I need it, lol.  Oh, but back to the situation at hand. This chick, Liz... I think..., She's in her late twenties/early thirties, kinda redneck, and she's not a student. That's weird to me. I thought they were only supposed to rent to students here. I obviously haven't talked to her very much but I don't know that I see us being overly friendly really. Maybe I'll luck out and she'll move. Unfortunately that doesn't actually help because I have another girl, Candice, moving in on Sunday. I have talked to her via Facebook and I think she and I could be friendlier at least. She's a psych student and closer to my age but doesn't live the college student lifestyle so this seems much more promising. 

I'm crazy tired. I slept well last night and the night before but I keep waking up around 7 am when I don't need to be up until 8 or 9 or 10. It's kind of frustrating.

I also keep avoiding the gym. =/ This is not a good thing. I'm doing well at staying on my diet but I've taken a week's vacation from the gym and I need to get my butt back in gear. When I lose 20 more pounds I will have reached my second ... tier? I dunno. I'm at 55 lbs lost, I think. Or maybe it's 45. I don't remember what my starting weight was anymore, lol. Either way, I'm still making progress and I feel pretty good about it overall.

My sister is set to give birth in June and she's wanting to deliver early. I'm trying not to get frustrated. She got married and pregnant within the same month. She had extensive back surgery (steel rods from neck to butt) just two years ago. The extra weight is not good for her back and she is starting to feel the effects. The ligaments along her left side are stretched to the extreme and are causing her extreme pain so she has to spend a lot of her time laying in bed to relieve the pressure. Because she and her husband just moved (again) to Oregon, they don't have the money to buy her the kind of bed she needs for her back. Or at least that's what I'm told. All-in-all I just think it's a rather unfortunate situation and I wish she had just listened to someone. I wish she had moved back home when she had the chance. I wish she had used a fucking condom. Ugh. It all just seems so avoidable and I don't understand why she thought this was a good idea.

My relationship is going well and it has officially been a month since I got back home from seeing him. It was kind of a rough week. It's hard to deal with the memories of being there and how wonderful it was and knowing that I'm not sure when I'm going to see him again. I know that it will be sometime this summer, but I don't know the specifics. It's just sad. I honestly try not to think about it too much. I don't think about my time there very often... it honestly just hurts. That's another reason I am trying to write that blog about my time there... I am already forgetting things so I just want to get all of it down so I can look back and all that jazz. I'll try to get back on that sometime soon as well. 

Well. I think that's about it, boys and girls, more information than you ever wanted to know.

How are things in your world these days?

Down to Nothing

Walls.
Locks.
Bars.

You’ve done this to yourself.
This is what you wanted.
This is what you asked for.

Begged.
Wanted.
Asked.

Lie down in that bed.
It was made just for you.
After all, you’re the special one.

Suffer.
Wait.
Hope.

Watch them laugh while you hope.
You fucked it all to hell.
This is what you wanted.

Suffer.
Suffer.
Suffer.

Suffer in silence.
No one wants to hear you.
You have no excuse.

Silence.
Surrounding.
Permeating.

You are being punished.
The crime you did commit.
Don’t bother with regrets.

Jokes.
Fingers.
Laughs.

Let them watch.
They need a laugh.
You’re nothing but a target.

Nothing.
Empty.
Dead.

Some Things Don't Need a Title.

I'm tired.

I am so fucking tired.

I'm not sleeping well again and as we all know, a lack of sleep just leads to lots of problems. I'm starting to feel it.

I hate going home. It puts me in a weird fucking head-space and it takes too long to get out of it. I'm probably going to be cranky for a couple of days and I'm not going to want to deal with anyone's shit. Seriously. You've been warned.

I'm also getting paranoid. About... a lot of things. I'm afraid it's a side effect of my medicine but I really fucking hope not. Then again, if it's not, then I'm just fucking nuts. I don't trust anyone. I just don't. I keep waiting for people to do something they're not supposed to... or told me they wouldn't. I'm convinced C doesn't want me. Why the fuck should he? I'm convinced he likes J and would have more fun with her, even if they wouldn't actually work as a couple. But maybe they would. Maybe he wants to know. I don't trust anything. Goddamnbitchmotherfucker. I'm scared. What's worse is that I know that if I can't fix this paranoia that I really am going to drive him away. He doesn't deserve this. And that just makes me more paranoid. Knowing what I'm doing... knowing that I'm going to drive him nuts... knowing he could just leave... knowing... just... knowing.

I motherfucking HATE going home. It fucks with my head. It puts me back into the frame of mind I was in when I was a teenager. Too many motherfucking memories. Too much shit. Maybe I do need the big city. Just so I can breathe... and then I can escape back here (here as in JC) when I need a break.

God... I'm so scared. I really am. I hate it. I hate thinking these thoughts. I hate not knowing how to fix it. I hate it all. I want to go back to normal. I can't keep begging for reassurance.

God.. I feel bipolar. My ups and downs today have been ridiculous. I've been flying high and sinking low. I dunno wtf is up. I just blame it on home.

I got my hair cut. It's cute.

Secret of the day. I want to go to my bathroom, cut my arm, and watch it bleed. I've never done that before. Not really. And I won't. But I want to. I was thinking about it earlier...

I miss C. I miss him so much. I wish I could drive up next weekend. I just wish I could hug him... I wish I could look into his eyes and I wish I could kiss him. It's been almost a month since our first kiss....

My mother wants me to fly out to Oregon in the summer and bring my sister and Katherine back. I'm still mad at her. I miss her.... but I'm mad at her... for leaving, for getting married, for getting pregnant... I'm just mad.

Gah. I just wanna go to bed. I want to curl up and cry and go to bed.

I can feel him getting tired of me. I can feel him starting to hate me... I can feel me starting to hate me. Is he tired of me yet? Has he realized I'm not worth the trouble? When will he? Next week? Next month? Seven years from now?

No one can love me forever. I'm just not that type of person.

I Got This.

From: http://www.shuckandjive.org/2010/03/church-without-god.html
By: John Shuck, Pastor at First Presbyterian Elizabethton

We are facing huge changes. Our universe is 13.7 billion years old as of the latest tally. Human beings have evolved as has every species on this beautiful blue ball. We were not placed in any garden by any divine being. No god/man came to Earth, walked on water, rose from the dead and sits on a heavenly throne. That is religious fiction. It is metaphor, story, myth, human invention. It is how our ancestors tried to find meaning. Bless their hearts.

We are still searching for meaning. It won't come for us in some imaginary heaven. It will come as we recognize that Earth is home and we have no more pressing religious duty than to care for our fellow Earthlings and for Earthlings who will come after us.

As we are in a period of transition we will wrestle with our inherited language. For some, the term "God" will have meaning. For others it will not. Religion is moving away from its supernaturalistic roots. "God" will be redefined accordingly. We are in the process of redefining meaning.

As the insights of Galileo and Darwin are finally making their way into popular consciousness, churches and religious institutions need intelligent, courageous leaders to provide the space for people to wrestle with the question of what it means to be a human being.

It could and likely will get ugly. Those who cling to their superstitions will be ruthless. There will be inquisitions. There will be heresy trials. I entered the ministry out of concern for truth as naive as that may sound. I discovered that truth was not the same as a supernaturalistic creed. The search and articulation of truth as I understand it is my integrity.

My advice for clergy and for laypeople who are growing out of a childish supernaturalistic past is to stand your ground. Don't let them set the terms or the rules. Don't resign. Be bold. Tell the truth. Don't call it a loss of faith. It is a growth in understanding. It is waking up from sleep. It is gaining sight from blindness. It is resurrection from death to life.

Happy Easter.

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A lot of you ask me why I go to church. The answer is that I found a church that holds the same or similar beliefs as I do. Or at least a church with people who support me and my belief system and are understanding of other views. There is no dogmatism. There is no closed-minded supernaturalism. My "religion" if you wish to call it that is to the world as it actually exists and to making this world an acceptable place to live. If you don't understand that, I'm sorry. If you think the church is "evil" I feel even sorrier for you and you probably just don't want to talk to me about it. You probably wouldn't come out feeling any better about the situation.

My beliefs have not changed. I am still, at best, agnostic but probably moreso atheist.

So no... you don't have to worry about me or my soul. I'm good. I got this. I have my truth.


That is all. :)

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