April 25th, 2009 (01:10 pm)
current mood: uncomfortable
“Is it like what you thought it would be?”
“No. It’s not even close.”
“Nothing ever is. You might do yourself a favor and learn that lesson now. It’ll end up saving you a lot of grief down the road.”
Hello! I’m writing all of this today because I can’t say it out loud. Just know that I am not looking for pity. I posted this here because it admits the truth. When you go to confession, the priest does not absolve your sin. It is the confession that does it. So here is my confession…
I am the type of person that allows others to talk and talk and tell me their problems and I listen whole heartedly. I offer the best advice I can give on the spot and I continue to ask and clarify that I am there for them.
This is all great. I love being the person someone can talk to. It gives me a little confidence…knowing that I am important for them and I’m that kind of person for them.
I am a very big fan of quotes and Oscar Wilde for some reason hold something for me, or I hold it for him whatever…he said, “A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal." I never thought that compassion, kindness or sincerity could be a dangerous thing. It runs the risk of being taken advantage of but it also runs the risk of you being forgotten.
It has crossed my mind from time to time that I tend to get forgotten about. People are so consumed by their problems, their concerns that they kind of forget that I could have problems too. I don’t like to bring my issues to people, mostly because I despise the pity or some kind of look. Also because I don’t want people to assume that I don’t care about what they are going through; that I just want to talk about me.
I know I’m not supposed to care what others think but let’s face it, I do. We can be big and say that what they think doesn’t matter; you don’t need them or their approval. Hey, if you can say this and actually practice what you preach then more power to you!
Never ending problems take their toll. I don’t want to be a part of the problem. I was to be the solution but I can’t help it at all. I come home and it’s the same thing over and over. I go to my room and think about the day and I think about what didn’t cross my mind while I was at work. I’m flooded with thoughts and I just want it to be easy. I want it to be okay.
Sometimes I look at it like no one can help me because they don’t really know. They aren’t really in my shoes and cannot give me the best advice so I’m left with a hug or “hang in there, it’s going to get better” response. Which is great, don’t get me wrong! It’s just that sometimes I need to be given reassurance.
I don’t want to seem selfish but I would like it if someone was just interested in what I’m feeling or what I am going through, you know? When people do ask me what is wrong or just what’s up, I tend not to say anything because I don’t know what to say. I mean, I start to think, “Are you ready to really hear what I am feeling?” or “Do you have time?!” I let things build and it may not be healthy but it’s what I do.
So here I am, resorting to my last option, writing. This is funny only because I learned from a very early age that writing things down can only get you in trouble. I used to keep a diary when I was like 10 or something and it got snooped and I got in trouble and from that day on I was extremely cautious of what I wrote.
But as I have gotten older I find that writing my feelings down might be the greatest release because I can take a sentence and place it in a different section of my paragraph. I can save it and come back to it later or I can sit for 20 minutes thinking of what to say or how to word it. If I am with someone I can’t really edit my conversation.
I can’t imagine what poverty stricken children must feel. Or what a homeless man must feel like setting up a cardboard box for a bed. Babies that have terminal diseases, what their families feel…I am in no way a comparison. I am in no position to complain but a problem is a problem, I think. Everything people face is a huge thing for them and so what I feel, what I know is huge for me.
I have a lot weighing on my shoulders and I am getting very tired; so tired that I am getting closer to the point where I’m starting not to care.
My doctor isn’t giving me the best treatment or so I think. I have been calling other places, just so I can talk to someone else, and I come up short every time.
There are things happening that make me worry. Tiny aches, something that is there that wasn’t there yesterday kind of stuff appear on me…I’m not dying physically but I am dying emotionally and mentally. This will in turn affect my body and I am not prepared for that outcome.
I don’t like surprises. I don’t like to be kept in the dark and wait for it. Spontaneity is not something that I do very often. I don’t like to complain to people, like I said because I don’t want people thinking that I’m crazy or that I am headed for the Looney bin! I try to keep a smile on my face and say that I am okay, and no I feel just fine but the truth is I am drowning. I can’t put into words what it is I am feeling. Sometimes I think that it holds no merit and that people go through things all the time, I am no different. I hate it when statistics show; let’s say 8 out of 10 people have this. Oh well its great when you’re the 9th person but if you are among the 8 well you’re just shit out of luck. It doesn’t feel better when people say so many people go through this. Yea well that’s them and this is me and I don’t want to go through it. I don’t know how to handle it.
When I was little I didn’t have to face reality, I was never exposed to troubles. Here I am now, with people that love me yet I feel so alone and it scares me.
They say, “I love you.” Thank you but it doesn’t take away the pain. It doesn’t take away the thoughts that run through my mind making me so dizzy all I want to do is sleep.
Put me on pills? Yea, maybe that will help. But I’ve done that and while I love flying high and feeling well, it’s all a mask. It is helpful and it does make me feel better but it’s so sad to know that withdrawals show what I am without it. It’s depressing; ironic, no?
My health and the way I feel is a problem but an added bonus is money. I’m not destitute but I see myself walking up to that. But I think that my mental issues overpower money. I don’t care for it. I don’t fight for it. If I’m broke, I’m broke. I worked and I did what I had to do the best I could and if the bills are more than what I have, what can you do?
Then there are the people that like to give you a hard time. People that have nothing better to do then make things complicated and uneasy. I don’t care when people don’t talk to me. It’s like silence is what I am used to so you’re not punishing me. What I hate is to be ignored or disregarded and to have conversation around me but excluding me; like I don’t exist. People don’t make me insecure really…just the feeling I get when I am ignored drives me up a wall and I am not a nice person when that happens.
I got a temper…I can’t lie about that. It gets triggered often and I want to give a clear answer as to why but I can’t. It just is what it is. I also see it as who are you to make me feel like shit? What gives you the right to make assumptions or add pressure on me for anything?
I feel like something is pressing against my chest. The weight is almost too much to bear sometimes. It’s like something that is forcing me to grow up in a world so inclined to hate. I have my happy moments, I laugh. I joke. But it only lasts so long. Then the silence comes and with it the thoughts.
I wonder how much more will be piled on me. I wonder how much more I will have to face. I am not trying to avoid responsibility. I am not trying to stop ‘growing up’. I just want to be concerned of silly things like dates or if my hair matches my eyebrows! I want to worry about what clothes I have or about my shelves falling down because of all my shoes. I don’t want to worry about what is going on inside that I cannot control.
Each day I face a new thing. This morning I got up with such a horrible pain in my neck that I could only turn if my whole body turned too. It was bad over the week but it got increasingly worse as the days went by. I thought it was the way I slept so each night I changed positions, used more pillows, used less pillows but nothing. It got worse today and only with natural movement is it starting to loosen up. That might not be related to anything than just my mattress but the point is that I can’t even get my mattress to work with me!
If I want to nitpick then I can go as far as saying that while I am driving, I put my bag on the passenger’s seat. When I make a turn would it be so horrible if the bag didn’t fly off the seat causing everything to fall out of it? I even closed the damn bag but since it still has an opening the stuff manages to fall out!
I just don’t know what else I am to do with myself. I guess maybe if I had more of a life and did more things in the day I would be better off but as it stands work is all I do. I don’t go places…it’s rare that I do. And you know what? It’s not always because I have no one to go with it’s because I am so tired. My body just wants to give out sometimes and I just can’t even move. There are times when I drive on auto pilot because my mind is in my bed already.
It’s a wonder that I get out of bed you know? I used to say I feared nothing but today I fear that I won’t care anymore. At night I cry. I usually fall asleep with tears staining my pillow. There are times when I am so tired that crying actually makes me feel like I took a long hot bath. They say crying cleans the soul. My soul is spotless…
When people say it is better to feel nothing than to feel pain, I wouldn’t have agreed with them. Knowing what I know now, feeling what I’ve felt, I’d rather feel nothing. I love it when I get with my family and we all talk about mundane things. When we get together and have a day. It makes me feel alive. I want that every day but we can’t all get what we want.
I will get out of this funk soon. I know that I will be laughing and playing soon but I’ll fall back into this and it will start all over again. A question came up recently,” If I couldn’t change a thing, would I live my life over again knowing exactly what I would face?” My answer was no. Yes, I had wonderful moments with my family and friends. Great things happened for me like parties and gymnastics, and gatherings; great and perfect things. But then it all changed. These last few years have been tortuous some days. The thought of what is going on just wracking my brain, taking years off my life, off my fathers and mothers life. It changed everything and I just want to be normal again. I just want to forget my problems and forget that there are things that I need to face.
I fear the unknown and I wake up to it every day. Nothing is as clear as I thought it would be. They say as you get older you understand but I’m at a loss. I don’t get it. I missed the punch line for sure…
Okay so now I’m done. It’s long but it’s not finished. It doesn’t define me; it just explains the tiniest of tiniest parts about me…
Thanks to those who read it.