In what has already been a year of things that made me laugh, this is the absolute tops, a Bendel bonnet, a Shakespeare sonnet:
Everyone here made the right decision, clearly.
On to TEEEAAAARS AND CRRRIIIEEEES ABOUT SOBSOBS
I think I might just stay the way I am, forever. I don’t much care for the thought, but I don’t have a lot of options.
Really, I have plenty of options. I just don’t know what to do, and I probably never will.
I want so much, but the ultimate goal is so little. Why bother with all the effort, when all I really want to do is survive?
I want whatever, I need one thing. I’m too afraid to try, just afraid that I won’t do as well as I always hoped I would. So I don’t try. That has been the overarching theme of my life, for as long as I’ve been cognizant. I guess I figure, maybe someday, someone will inspire me to become what I want to be, someone will encourage me to try, and to never mind missed perfection. I’m just not the sort of person to compromise on what I think could be, or what I could accomplish. The idea that I may fail at something I see as possible/attainable absolutely terrifies me, and paralyzes me. So I try nothing, nothing I have any confidence in. How stupid to only be willing to try things which you feel you’ll perform poorly in! Any sort of ’skill’ I feel that I have, I have hidden all away in shame and fear–that it might not be as perfect as it has to be.
Then I idle, waiting, thinking someday someone will have the right series of words, the right stimulus, and they’ll be able to make me do it. It being whatever it is that I am meant to do. For a person who believes in nothing, I do certainly put a lot of stock in pre-destination–which is about the weakest aspect of mystic thought, right? It is also the only part that has any bit of allure. A completely directionless being, well, that is more or less what I am–and I don’t much care for it. I need to have something, and I guess what I have, is the idea that someday I will do whatever it is I am meant to do. Maybe it will just dawn on me, sometime soon, maybe never. Maybe I’ll see something, and I’ll know. Maybe I’ll listen, and I’ll understand completely.
If not, I could very well be working in mass-market retailers all of my life, having some sort of brood of children with some vaguely attractive nice guy with whom I share little but love. Then matching sweatpants, giving up. If I manage not to be divorced towards the end of my life; last few years, he never listens, but that is alright, I’ve never got anything to say. We die, the children are sad, the grandchildren search their memories of horehound candy and old leather purses: ‘what was grandma like, anyway? Oh, she sounds pretty okay, I suppose.’ I don’t really want that, but I am making no real steps to…not do that. I need to believe I will be more, that some unseen Adam Smith is guiding me as well, and someday I will achieve …something.
If not, what have I done? I look around at all the people who shop: day in, day out at this store, and I feel terrible. Mostly because I see how frail we are, the mortality all around. I see people, and I see my dad, my mom, anyone I love, myself, and I know we’re all nearing the end. Any moment could come, and destroy every little bit. Every word you ever said, every thing you ever did, every gene, every little, imperceptible bit of ‘you’, and it will all be gone from the consciousness soon enough. Shredded beyond recognition, and everything just continues on as machinated, by nature, by aNcIeNt SeCxReT g0dZ, whatever.
I want to live forever.
Beyond that, they worked to accomplish things, they’re happy in their lives, they aren’t constantly wracked inward, wondering about themselves, and why they can’t just DO something, or NOT do something and just LET GO. They do have so much more to live for, and I have the audacity to consider myself superior to some of them, based on their opinions or thoughts, or whatever…At least they have direction, and purpose. At least they have love, and friends, and fun. At least they have children, and futures, and pasts, and memories, and experiences, and they know what to say and what to do in their own lives. They’re defined, quite human, they have so much more than I.
They don’t wait around forever for some muse, some hand, some figure to tell them what to do, to make up for what their own constitution lacks, to make them one whole person. They have so much, and all I have is whatever all this is: what good has that done me, all this time?
Maybe I’ve been wrong all this time, maybe it is better to just let yourself ‘be’. I just don’t know how easy it could be to give up the dream of inspiration, somewhere. Maybe I am no more than what readily, visibly am. Just vacuous words in the ether, some body with organs and headmeats, who won’t amount to anything for any particular reason. The idea hurts, but it is something everyone else came to terms with as a child, right? It isn’t that I think I’m special, or that I deserve something more than survival…I guess I just want to be the “”"”"”"best me”"”"”" there is, and I don’t feel that I am, and I have no idea how, or by what measure, I will be. I can be more, just a little more, than what I am–but I just won’t do it, and if I do, how will I know?
It doesn’t matter anyway, this is just a lot of stupid words. It makes me sick, in a totally different way, to see myself so weak. Why am I just typing all this out–to what benefit? None, of course, only detriment is possible from keeping an “”"”"online journal”"”"”" full of heartfelt wahwahs.
I guess I need to communicate my “feelings” to something or someone, even if it is just more nonspecific chatter in the din.