I wonder when I'm gonna finally want to grow up. I'm 19 years old, a
sophomore in college on my way to a degree in psychology. I work at a
job I hate, with people that are pretty much going nowhere in life. I
sleep, I party, and every now and then I fall farther in love with a boy
that I can't possibly ever live without now. Sounds normal doesn't
it. My life that is. I don't know why I feel like I'm going nowhere
right now, but I do. I've lost a lot of friends to distance, and second
thoughts. I don't know who I am anymore. I can't write, I can't form a
thought, or justly represent it to the world. Who am I if I am not my
words? It's not that I don't have anything to say, it's that I'm so
goddamn tired of spewing the same twisted complaints. I'm sick of
whining about my love life and my false friendships and my loneliness.
When will there ever be more? Is there more, to life, to a world so off
kilter?
So when do we grow out of it? When do we decide to put
pitty highschool dramatics behind us and lead a real adult life? What
does that even mean?
fuck it this isn't making sense.
Tuesday, October 3, 2006
Monday, October 2, 2006
Untouchables
The future is something that I can’t quite touch today. I want to
reach out and grab it, feel it for bumps and bruises, see myself in that
light. Will it be bright, broken, or devoid of all that matters? Will I
wake up one of these days in the shoes of the girl that I will one day
become? Will I always be this goddamn broken? It’s a failed attempt to
question the fates that aren’t listening to my cries. I’m insignificant
in the scheme of things, I will prove to be nothing more than my words
on this paper. I will cease to be, and nothing will remain, nothing but
this. This broken page bleeding an existence that didn’t ever say
anything worth reading about. All these questions about love and life
and purpose, no one cares. No one should, because they have their own.
Everyone wonders if they’ll ever get to that grand place we all believe
we’re destined for, that place that we believe we deserve, but what if
we don’t? What if we were put here for punishment? Did we do something
so long ago as a race that someone decided we needed to pay? Or is that
just a human emotion, revenge, justice, peace of mind? I don’t
understand where I’m going with this or where I may have already been.
It’s all coming out in circles inside squares and I can’t find a corner
in which to hide. We aren’t helpless, we’re lost. We aren’t broken,
we’re hurting. We aren’t confused, we’re misrepresented. So what’s it
all for? Is it worth it anymore? Can you get to a place where the hurt
overtakes the possibilities of tomorrow? Tomorrow means nothing. Today
means the world to me, but I’m not sure that the world means a goddamn
thing anyway. Why do we continue to walk the paths we can’t ever get
away from. They’re all the same, they’re all crooked and trapped, and
dead-ended. We always end up in a place we don’t want to be. Always. And
forever. Broken, but not forgotten. Forgotten, but not disillusioned.
We know who we are, we know where we are and where we’ve been, but we
don’t care. Tomorrow is what counts. That place we can never get to
because it always turns into today and like I said today doesn’t mean a
damn thing when we have tomorrow to worry about. Wishes disappear,
desires fade away. Love may live on through death, depression, and
disgust, but hate breaks boundaries love knows nothing of. Hate breeds a
future full of darkness. I guess it’s only fitting that the
streetlights burst at the thought. We are seeking the darkness we fear,
we are going to a place we never wanted to ever experience. But somehow
it’s too alluring to avoid. Truth blossoms in the dark, but lies, they
tumble easier than your lifeless clothes onto the floor. You’re rolling
around in the sheets of desire again, naked in every sense of the word.
Does it feel good? Right? Justified because the lights don’t burn to
tell your tale. I feel that too. In the dark I feel free. Freedom born
on the wings of the owl that haunts the night. He doesn’t forget though,
no one ever forgets. Our actions will follow us until the end of time.
What does that say about you? Where will what you are doing tonight, in
the dark, take you when you meet your maker? It will take you miles from
that place you always assumed you’d make it to. There is no such thing
as success or never-ending love. There is no such thing as making it.
You will be mediocre for the rest of your life, or you will break
yourself so badly on the way to the top that you fall. Flailing slightly
trying your hardest to convince the gods that you deserve that
pedestal. You’re feet aren’t pretty enough to be eye-level in this image
driven society. Get some expensive shoes, paint them up pretty, they’ll
never measure up. The mediocre will never lead the world. The world’s
going to hell anyway, do you want to look responsible for the final
showdown? Because you’ll lose. There are forces in this world that far
surpass our own. We will not win, we will kill ourselves. Mass suicide
at the hands of a society so driven on surviving that it surrendered its
chance of ever succeeding.
Sometimes life hurts and I get away from where I thought I was. I scare myself at times, but I guess that’s expected. I don’t want to be so dark, so depressive, but it’s easier than anything right now. The words are bottled up so tight they might just uncork this bottle, but I’m holding it too tight, trying to guzzle the contents into nothingness. I have no words for you, not anymore. I have no thoughts, not today. Because today doesn’t matter, and tomorrow will never come. Yesterday is all I have, and it’s lost in the tears I’ve cried trying to get it back. If you were ready for the truth I don’t think I could manage to drag it from the trenches of disillusionment. It’s scary, and it hurts far more than any words ever could. My words are all I have, bleeding much more profusely than the cuts I refuse to put in my wrists.
I always wanted to tattoo my thoughts of the world on my wrist, something in words, something particular and somehow astonishing. The only thing I can seem to think of is forever. Not because I believe in it, but because that’s what I think about life. It’s bullshit, we’ll never get it. Call me pessimistic, my dictionary lost that page anyway. I couldn’t stand the look of the word permanent, so I destroyed it.
Take a word of advice from a veteran of misery, don’t listen to a word I have to say.
Shut me up but don’t shut me down,
Jenny
Sometimes life hurts and I get away from where I thought I was. I scare myself at times, but I guess that’s expected. I don’t want to be so dark, so depressive, but it’s easier than anything right now. The words are bottled up so tight they might just uncork this bottle, but I’m holding it too tight, trying to guzzle the contents into nothingness. I have no words for you, not anymore. I have no thoughts, not today. Because today doesn’t matter, and tomorrow will never come. Yesterday is all I have, and it’s lost in the tears I’ve cried trying to get it back. If you were ready for the truth I don’t think I could manage to drag it from the trenches of disillusionment. It’s scary, and it hurts far more than any words ever could. My words are all I have, bleeding much more profusely than the cuts I refuse to put in my wrists.
I always wanted to tattoo my thoughts of the world on my wrist, something in words, something particular and somehow astonishing. The only thing I can seem to think of is forever. Not because I believe in it, but because that’s what I think about life. It’s bullshit, we’ll never get it. Call me pessimistic, my dictionary lost that page anyway. I couldn’t stand the look of the word permanent, so I destroyed it.
Take a word of advice from a veteran of misery, don’t listen to a word I have to say.
Shut me up but don’t shut me down,
Jenny
Thursday, June 1, 2006
Unhappiness in a Bottle
The beginning is always the hardest part of anything to write, for me
anyway. I always have trouble getting where I’m going, but I always
know where I want to end up, so I’m gonna start there. I’m sick and
tired of being unhappy. I want to reach that place where everything is
going to be okay again. I thought I was there. I thought that I was
finally on track, but I’m so far away that I can’t even see the train
heading straight for me. I don’t know if I’m crazy, or just horrendously
unlucky. I keep getting dealt the hard hand, or maybe I redeal until I
get it, I’m not sure. Maybe I want to end up here. In this place where
things aren’t okay anymore. Sometimes I really wonder. It’s a draw, I
guess. I can either be in this place, willing and able to write every
care, fear, and sadness that I can convey, or I can be on the other side
of the spectrum. I can be happy, or so close that it doesn’t matter if
I’m really there, and I miss my ability to convey how I feel. When I’m
in this place I can get it all down on paper, one way or another, but
when I’m not it’s just there, and no matter how long I try I can’t show
the world how it feels. Because happiness is not something you can write
about. You can’t write about being content, whole, in love. Because
there aren’t words for that. There are similes, but none quite compare.
None will ever come close. So ya, maybe I like the darkness. Maybe I
stray to it every time my life starts to get boring. Maybe that’s my
disease. What’s my cure?
Some say love can cure you of anything. I was one of those people. I thought that love could move mountains. I was wrong. There are boundaries in even love. There are limits, things that just cannot happen. And that realization really hurt. It hurt knowing that even if you are drowning in love, sometimes it can’t save you. I’m not sure how to even explain what’s going through my head right now. I’m thinking about this too much, that’s what he’d say. He’d say that things will eventually be okay if I just give him his space and his time. What he doesn’t know is that my entire world has been tipped upside down and turned inside out. I don’t know how to function in this backwards place. I don’t know how to be in love anymore, because the way I thought love is isn’t in any way close to the way it really is.
I thought love would save me. I thought that once I fell in love all those holes and all those pains would eventually go away. I thought I’d be whole again with the man of my dreams by my side, but suddenly I’m not enough. He needs his time to enjoy himself away from me, to grow away from me. But what happens when we grow up separately for so long, will we eventually turn into people that aren’t in love anymore? Will we one day look into the other’s eyes and not see the fire, or spark that was there for so long before? I’m just afraid that he’s gonna grow up one day and realize how great he is. He’s gonna realize that he’s an amazing guy, and he’s gonna see that I’m not such an amazing girl. I’m really fucked up. We both know that. And maybe after revealing my whole fucked up self by taking him to the graveyard to meet my dad, he sees that the hole is too deep. He can’t fill it, so he doesn’t want to try anymore.
That’s ridiculous probably. Ridiculous to think that I scared him away after all the times we’ve talked about my father and all the ways that it’s influenced my life. But I wanted him to meet him. That sounds crazy, but I needed to take him there. I needed him to see the final remnants of the man that took the happiness out of my eyes when he left this world. I needed him to see the physical proof of why and how much I was fucked up all those years ago. And I think I scared him a little. He wasn’t ready to be that kind of strong for me. Holding me at night when I have nightmares is one thing, but holding me as I’m sobbing next to my father’s grave is another. I think I thought too much of our relationship.
I wanted it to be perfect, complete, and all-consuming. Because that’s what he is to me. He’s my rock, my best friend, my boyfriend, my true love, my… everything. He’s the one I go to when I’m feeling frustrated, annoyed, alone, hurt, stressed, or even inexplicably happy. He is enough for me. He makes me comfortable. For the first time I can be myself. I can say every stupid blonde thing in front of him and not feel stupid for one second. I can bumble around and get confused when we’re having sex, I can laugh too. I can write in front of him and let him read it. I can do ANYTHING and everything in his presence, I’m that comfortable, but he’s not. And that hurts no matter how normal it is. Why am I suddenly not enough, or really… too much?
I’m thinking about this too much, but lately I feel like I need to hang on really tight. Like I’m gonna lose him at any second. I don’t know why. I’m not psychic or even pretending to think that I am, but for some odd reason I feel like one of these days I’m gonna wake up and he’s not gonna be there, and that scares the shit out of me. I’m not sure what I would do. I can’t lose him. Not now. Not ever.
I wanna grow old with him and have kids, grandkids and eventually great-grandkids. I want to laugh together when we can’t shower ourselves anymore. I want to cook him dinner before he gets home from work every night. I want to live with him in the perfect brick house we always talk about. 3 kids. I want girls, he wants boys, but that’ll work itself out. I want to get a puppy. I want to get a fish, and a cat, and a frog. I want to decorate the house together, and help out with all our chores. I want to walk down the aisle with him waiting, hot as hell in his tuxedo to say I do. I want to write an amazing wedding speech, but chicken out and only read it to him when we’re alone. I want to slow dance with him to our song, if we ever have one. But what if he gets stolen from me? It’s almost as if he’s slowly distancing himself so that when he’s gone for good it’s not such a surprise. I don’t want to lose him, I can’t.
I want him to hold me right now as I start to cry. I want him to walk through that door and tell me that everything is alright and that he’s never going to leave and that I’m exactly the girl that he wants, and will always want. I want him to kiss me softly and show me that he’s not just saying that to silence my tears. I need all that. I need it to be like it used to be, him and me, and no one else. But it’s not. It’s all these other people, and not a single one matters to me but him. I wish he’d wake up and realize that I’m the only one he needs too. But am I? Will I always be?
It’s paralyzing to have to wonder if you’re enough. To wonder if it’ll always be me in his dreams, or if one day there just might be another. He’s the only one I’ll ever yearn for. He’s the only one I’ll ever truly love.
I know sometimes he doubts that fact, thinks that TJ got there first. He never did. I didn’t love TJ. I fell in love with the idea of him more than anything. I wanted to love him, but it was an odd sort of love. The kind that you know is doomed from the beginning. I always had to second guess myself with him, still even today I have to second guess our friendship. He was never enough for me. David’s a different story. He has been since day one. He wanted me, he loved me, and he wasn’t afraid to show it. He put me first, and maybe that’s selfish to want that, but it felt great to be cared for. It feels great. I’m in love, and it hurts a lot of the time recently but I’m still in love. I’d do anything for his kiss, his touch, his smell even. That screams first love, so nothing before this matters, nothing. Even with TJ around, it doesn’t show me what I’m missing out on, it shows me what I wasted my time on. I wasted four years being wrapped up in this kid that’s still as fucked up today as he was then. He’s going nowhere. I needed to wait those four years though, in order for david to come around. I needed to be unattached and wanting when he was ready to knock on my door.
That’s the funny thing about love and timing. It’s always perfect. So maybe I just need to wait. Wait for the moment when everything turns out just the way I wanted it to. It won’t be today, or even tomorrow, but maybe the next day. It still hurts though. I miss him holding me, and hearing his breathing as I go to sleep. I miss having him there when I wake up. Maybe he does too. Maybe it’ll all be okay.
I love you David Jon-Michael Worrell. Don’t ever question that.
Love battered and broken, but still somehow standing,
Jenny
Some say love can cure you of anything. I was one of those people. I thought that love could move mountains. I was wrong. There are boundaries in even love. There are limits, things that just cannot happen. And that realization really hurt. It hurt knowing that even if you are drowning in love, sometimes it can’t save you. I’m not sure how to even explain what’s going through my head right now. I’m thinking about this too much, that’s what he’d say. He’d say that things will eventually be okay if I just give him his space and his time. What he doesn’t know is that my entire world has been tipped upside down and turned inside out. I don’t know how to function in this backwards place. I don’t know how to be in love anymore, because the way I thought love is isn’t in any way close to the way it really is.
I thought love would save me. I thought that once I fell in love all those holes and all those pains would eventually go away. I thought I’d be whole again with the man of my dreams by my side, but suddenly I’m not enough. He needs his time to enjoy himself away from me, to grow away from me. But what happens when we grow up separately for so long, will we eventually turn into people that aren’t in love anymore? Will we one day look into the other’s eyes and not see the fire, or spark that was there for so long before? I’m just afraid that he’s gonna grow up one day and realize how great he is. He’s gonna realize that he’s an amazing guy, and he’s gonna see that I’m not such an amazing girl. I’m really fucked up. We both know that. And maybe after revealing my whole fucked up self by taking him to the graveyard to meet my dad, he sees that the hole is too deep. He can’t fill it, so he doesn’t want to try anymore.
That’s ridiculous probably. Ridiculous to think that I scared him away after all the times we’ve talked about my father and all the ways that it’s influenced my life. But I wanted him to meet him. That sounds crazy, but I needed to take him there. I needed him to see the final remnants of the man that took the happiness out of my eyes when he left this world. I needed him to see the physical proof of why and how much I was fucked up all those years ago. And I think I scared him a little. He wasn’t ready to be that kind of strong for me. Holding me at night when I have nightmares is one thing, but holding me as I’m sobbing next to my father’s grave is another. I think I thought too much of our relationship.
I wanted it to be perfect, complete, and all-consuming. Because that’s what he is to me. He’s my rock, my best friend, my boyfriend, my true love, my… everything. He’s the one I go to when I’m feeling frustrated, annoyed, alone, hurt, stressed, or even inexplicably happy. He is enough for me. He makes me comfortable. For the first time I can be myself. I can say every stupid blonde thing in front of him and not feel stupid for one second. I can bumble around and get confused when we’re having sex, I can laugh too. I can write in front of him and let him read it. I can do ANYTHING and everything in his presence, I’m that comfortable, but he’s not. And that hurts no matter how normal it is. Why am I suddenly not enough, or really… too much?
I’m thinking about this too much, but lately I feel like I need to hang on really tight. Like I’m gonna lose him at any second. I don’t know why. I’m not psychic or even pretending to think that I am, but for some odd reason I feel like one of these days I’m gonna wake up and he’s not gonna be there, and that scares the shit out of me. I’m not sure what I would do. I can’t lose him. Not now. Not ever.
I wanna grow old with him and have kids, grandkids and eventually great-grandkids. I want to laugh together when we can’t shower ourselves anymore. I want to cook him dinner before he gets home from work every night. I want to live with him in the perfect brick house we always talk about. 3 kids. I want girls, he wants boys, but that’ll work itself out. I want to get a puppy. I want to get a fish, and a cat, and a frog. I want to decorate the house together, and help out with all our chores. I want to walk down the aisle with him waiting, hot as hell in his tuxedo to say I do. I want to write an amazing wedding speech, but chicken out and only read it to him when we’re alone. I want to slow dance with him to our song, if we ever have one. But what if he gets stolen from me? It’s almost as if he’s slowly distancing himself so that when he’s gone for good it’s not such a surprise. I don’t want to lose him, I can’t.
I want him to hold me right now as I start to cry. I want him to walk through that door and tell me that everything is alright and that he’s never going to leave and that I’m exactly the girl that he wants, and will always want. I want him to kiss me softly and show me that he’s not just saying that to silence my tears. I need all that. I need it to be like it used to be, him and me, and no one else. But it’s not. It’s all these other people, and not a single one matters to me but him. I wish he’d wake up and realize that I’m the only one he needs too. But am I? Will I always be?
It’s paralyzing to have to wonder if you’re enough. To wonder if it’ll always be me in his dreams, or if one day there just might be another. He’s the only one I’ll ever yearn for. He’s the only one I’ll ever truly love.
I know sometimes he doubts that fact, thinks that TJ got there first. He never did. I didn’t love TJ. I fell in love with the idea of him more than anything. I wanted to love him, but it was an odd sort of love. The kind that you know is doomed from the beginning. I always had to second guess myself with him, still even today I have to second guess our friendship. He was never enough for me. David’s a different story. He has been since day one. He wanted me, he loved me, and he wasn’t afraid to show it. He put me first, and maybe that’s selfish to want that, but it felt great to be cared for. It feels great. I’m in love, and it hurts a lot of the time recently but I’m still in love. I’d do anything for his kiss, his touch, his smell even. That screams first love, so nothing before this matters, nothing. Even with TJ around, it doesn’t show me what I’m missing out on, it shows me what I wasted my time on. I wasted four years being wrapped up in this kid that’s still as fucked up today as he was then. He’s going nowhere. I needed to wait those four years though, in order for david to come around. I needed to be unattached and wanting when he was ready to knock on my door.
That’s the funny thing about love and timing. It’s always perfect. So maybe I just need to wait. Wait for the moment when everything turns out just the way I wanted it to. It won’t be today, or even tomorrow, but maybe the next day. It still hurts though. I miss him holding me, and hearing his breathing as I go to sleep. I miss having him there when I wake up. Maybe he does too. Maybe it’ll all be okay.
I love you David Jon-Michael Worrell. Don’t ever question that.
Love battered and broken, but still somehow standing,
Jenny
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Teenage Love or the Lack-there-of
I never considered the kind of love that I'm experiencing to be either
juvenile, or fleeting. I never saw it as so-called "teenage love" or
"highschool romance" because in my mind it was never anything close to
that. It was something to joke or play with... ever. It was something
that him and I both knew was going to be forever, or for at least such a
large amount of time that it replicated the meaning of forever. We
spent our days playing out the scenes of romeo and juliet. except we
didn't die. and our families never fought. okay not so much romeo and
juliet, I guess but you get the idea. We were meant to be. destined.
and i believed that. believED. funny how one silly
argument changes that. how suddenly your entire world is off kilter and
you are forced to question everything you stand for. everything you've
fought for. everything you've lost. we'd never fought before this,
nothing huge anyway. we'd make up, kiss, and hold eachother before bed.
that didn't happen this time. it has yet to happen. so i have to
question what we're doing here. is it really just young love? is it
the relationship that will eventually get left behind because we've
grown so far past it? i hope to god i'm wrong. i hope to god we can
overcome this because i don't know how to live without him. i don't
want to. but at the same time i dont want to hurt anymore. i don't
want to keep getting thrown full force into this depression, but here i
am, chin deep and choking. i'm drowning again. who'll save me if he
doesnt want to be around anymore.
this wouldn't hurt so much if i didnt have to question our future. but those 3 children, two girls one boy, are fading fast. the house is changing shape, disappearing. there isn't a chocolate lab, or a white picket fence. we're not together. we're not happy. i haven't lived past us either. i'm dead, and buried without him, i wish he'd see that.
i can't lose him.
i can't live without him.
i can't breathe.
my heart would burst if it hadn't already broken.
lovesick in the dieing sort of way,
Jenny
this wouldn't hurt so much if i didnt have to question our future. but those 3 children, two girls one boy, are fading fast. the house is changing shape, disappearing. there isn't a chocolate lab, or a white picket fence. we're not together. we're not happy. i haven't lived past us either. i'm dead, and buried without him, i wish he'd see that.
i can't lose him.
i can't live without him.
i can't breathe.
my heart would burst if it hadn't already broken.
lovesick in the dieing sort of way,
Jenny
Sunday, May 21, 2006
Final Destination Depression
The doors are all locked and shut tight, the covers drawn, and lights
down. The music’s softly playing in the background, but no matter what
happens I can’t settle my mind on this particular night. Not that
there’s anything outstanding about it really, the same thing has
happened on countless other nights. To be honest, the same thing happens
every night. I’m never completely settled, the feeling is just
magnified because I don’t have those strong protective arms surrounding
me, or the calming sound of his breathing. I don’t have his warmth, or
his calming presence, and it kind of hurts. It brings the demons in a
little deeper knowing that he isn’t there to ward them away. At the same
time though, I know that I need this. I need this time to reflect
because night after night I’ve been thinking these exact same thoughts.
These exact same problems keep wreaking havoc on my mind and on my
concentration. They are consuming me as surely as they are completely
strange and unknown to me. I mean, I don’t know why I’m thinking the way
that I am lately. It’s weird. I’m resigned to that fact though, I know
that I’m eccentric, a little out of the ordinary tonight, and it’s okay,
because I’m here alone with my thoughts. The music has been silenced,
the dryer is filling the void. I can still hear it though, still hear
the sounds of the soft singing, if only in my head. It makes me wonder,
crazily if maybe I’m hearing it in another somewhere. That probably
doesn’t make sense to you, and that’s okay. I’ll explain, just give me
time to process what I’m feeling. I think somehow it’s profound, maybe
it explains more about me than I ever deemed worthy of figuring out.
Final Destination is my favorite movie of all time. Not because of the
hot actors sitting center stage in it, but because of a single scene. A
scene, that in it’s entirety didn’t change or warp the movie in any way,
it didn’t move the plot along, or explain anything that you couldn’t
have otherwise figured out. It was just there, waiting to pull me in. I
can hear the words in my head of that scene. I think somewhere deep down
I know it by heart. Devon Sawa’s character looks at clear and asks her
if she thinks that somewhere out there their flight was still flying to
Europe, if maybe in some alternate timeline they had made it safely
there. He wonders that if this tragedy took place in his time, if maybe
somewhere else happier it didn’t. She in return says sure I wish there
was that place, a place where her father hadn’t needed cigarettes and
had stayed home the night that he left and got killed, a place where her
mother didn’t run off and leave her to deal with the aftermath. But
they don’t have that place, all they have is the here and now. That
scene captured me because that’s the question I had been trying to ask
myself since I lost my father. I wanted there to be this place where he
didn’t get sick, and he didn’t die and we were all happily living
together as one fucked up family. I want that place more than I’ve let
myself admit. More than I will ever let anyone know. Anyway I started
reading this book called From the Corner of His Eye, and in this book
every single person was interconnected and woven together to generate
this ultimate goal, that has absolutely nothing to do with what I’m
trying to say here. What I want to explain is that in this book there
are hundreds of thousands of planes of existence. Every single choice in
one’s life branches off. There is a place where my father chose to stay
with my mother, but he still got sick and died. There’s a place where
he never got a sick, and a place where it was worse. There’s a thousand
shades of gray in a thousand different characteristics in each world,
but each in turn has it’s tragedies. They are separate, removed, do not
effect one another, but they all have their traumas, and their
terrifics. The problem with entertaining these ideas, is how much I want
to be in another reality, one that parallels my own, but not to the
point where I can recognize it. There’s so many variables that you can’t
really pinpoint what you want to change you know? What if I had kissed
TJ on that grand day that I can’t seem to forget when I ended up at his
house in tears and in his bed with him caressing me? Would we have ended
up together, or would I be more broken than I am now? What if I hadn’t
betrayed Jessi’s trust? Would she still have moved to California? Would I
still have David? That’s the ultimate question. If my father was in my
life, if TJ was there solely as a friend, if I had never ever gone to
the lengths to betray Jessi that I did, would I still have ended up with
the love of my life as closely woven into my heart? Maybe in some
somewhere. I dunno if it makes it better or worse if it’s possible, but
will never amount to happening. Is it comforting to know that that place
is there? Would it be better to know that my father could walk me down
the aisle at my and David’s wedding in another place, but he can’t here?
Maybe I’d miss it more. Maybe I’d be dead today, I don’t really know.
Freak car crash with my father at the wheel, possibly. Maybe I never
would have gotten close to TJ at all, and he would have killed himself
when he had the chance months ago. Every event in my life succumbs to
the moment that I lost my father. If I hadn’t lost him I wouldn’t have
gained the friends, and love that I have in my life now, but it isn’t a
welcomed loss. I will never step back and see it for the greater good
that was intended. He didn’t need to be taken. He was the most kind,
generous, misunderstood, but still loving man that I ever knew, and he
deserved better. He deserved a full life. Maybe he got that. Maybe in
the years he had he gained everything that I think isn’t possible in 36
years. But then again maybe he didn’t. I hate the fact that I’ll never
know. Unless there’s that somewhere, where all wrongs have been righted
and I’m as happy as I can possibly be. I only wish someday to glimpse
myself in that kind of glory.
Broken, bleeding into the existence of the what-ifs of my dreams,
Jenny
Broken, bleeding into the existence of the what-ifs of my dreams,
Jenny
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Here I go again, off the rocker, off the floor. I'm hurting from these
numbing pains, that aren't existant anymore. If I were just a fraction
more, deluded, or self involved, maybe I'd have a factory named after
me, and the puzzle could be solved. But I'm no inventor, no
self-representer, or attention hog. I'm simply me, please no
recognition or applause. I'm the leader of the followers, what's the
next turn i should take? I'm the ringleader of the disillusioned, what
secret entrance must we make? And if there are no answers, or simple
solutions, or gradious causes, simply lead us to the dragon's quarters,
there will be blood, but no honor or safety clauses. We'll self
destruct at any minute, stay clear of the gun. The only thing we were
ever taught was stay put, and never run. Run run run away, but never
have the nerve to stray. We like to think we're poets, writers, or just
creative bets. But we're simply rhyming fools, with tics to keep our
imaginations wet. Speaking in the form of multiple personalites always
makes me feel less alone, but the only thing I can think to remember are
the sins for which i must atone. Stay back, don't worry, I'll get to
the end of this sad sob story. the path to this wonderful ending has
been under construction for quite some time, there's a detour, but
believe it's not worth your time.
Thursday, April 13, 2006
Back to the Beginning
So here I am again, or maybe more precisely, here I am back where I
always end up. It’s that place that you never quite want to be, but end
up there anyway. Every time you get there you recognize it. It has the
same signs, the same surroundings, but surprisingly a much different
road leading there. It’s always a different path, always different
choices and different circumstances, but you always end up in the same
place. In the same circle, with the same problems, and the same escapes.
Being such a creative person you’d think that I’d be able to write
myself out of these kind of holes. You’d think that I’d be able to make
different choices, leading to different circumstances, and different
roads, and eventually different destinations. But my roads lead in one
direction. My roads lead to what I’ve only just realized is what I
define as home. Home was always an odd concept to me, anyway. It was
never a place, or rather any physical place. It was always a state of
mind. It was a group of places, or people, or feelings that coalesced to
a single idea that I just knew somehow was home. It was the place I
yearned for when I wasn’t there, but hated when I was trapped inside. I
missed it, but at the same time I never wanted to miss it, or maybe I
realized that in effect I shouldn’t miss it. But I do, even sitting here
knee deep in it’s aftermath. I miss it. And in reality all it is, is
this place where things cannot possibly ever get worse, and the only
thing that can happen is that things start to look up. It’s the tail-end
of depression, the last step to recovery, the first step to mental
freedom. And every time I’m there I don’t want to take it. I don’t want
to walk away from this place, because I know for a fact that no matter
what I do, or where I go, or who I meet, or who I fall in love with, or
what friends come screaming and running full force back into my life,
that I’m going to end up back here. But it’s home, and I’ll always have a
special place for it in my heart, and in my soul, but mainly in my
mind. I want it back already and I’m still in it. Where I was going with
this I have no idea, because all I turned this computer on for was to
play pinball, but now sitting here I have about a million things to say.
Life has been low lately. I’ve been crying a lot, mainly when I’m
alone, but a lot of times when I’m not too. Things between me and David
have been strained. He’s pushing away, and I’m clinging on. Not to say
I’m clingy, I just hate the fact that no matter what I seem to do I
can’t keep that love, or affection between us. I never thought in a
million years that he’d get tired of kissing me, and it’s hard for me
even to type that because I don’t want it to be true, but then again
it’s the truth, and there’s no secrets here. It’s hard to keep up three
fourths of the relationship I guess, and I think I’m driving him crazy
with it, but I don’t want to lose it. I don’t want to be one of those
couples that can’t stand to be around each other, or that get into this
routine that they can’t break out of. But here we are, living the
routine. He goes to work, I go to school, and about every other day I
come over to his house to help him clean, sit back, in another room
while he bonds with the boys until he’s ready to go to bed. We don’t go
out anymore. We don’t have time alone anymore. It feels like I’m losing
him slowly. Not that I need his attention and time every second of every
day, I just need my time too. And sure we’re together a lot, hell we’re
together more than a lot, but it’s never just us, and even if it is
just us sitting in his bedroom, it’s not just us because kenny and adam
are a couple rooms over and he’ll leave in a second if they call. I
don’t know, I guess I feel like I’ve been kinda shifted to the
backburner or something. I’m not the number one priority for him
anymore, and it’s hard for me process because he’ll always be number one
for me. I will blow off my friends, my family, even my schoolwork for
him if he calls, but I feel bad and awkward if I ask him to come in 2
minutes early from being with the guys. Like I’m depriving him of his
time alone. I shouldn’t have to feel like that. I don’t want to feel
like that, but every time I bring it up he needs his alone time, or he
can’t be with me 24-7. That’s never what I’m asking for, I just wish he
knew that. I wish he knew how much I love him, and how much it hurts me
when he pushes me away, or tells me that he doesn’t wanna touch me, or
kiss me, or fuck me. It rips me apart when I have to hear that. Am I
becoming his routine? Is he sick of the monotony? Does he want to move
on but isn’t admitting it? It’s stupid and ridiculous to wonder any of
this, to even type it out, but it’s what I think about all the time. He
says I’m beautiful and hot and everything he’s ever wanted, but he
changes so much, am I still all that? After finding everything out that
he has about me does he still think that I’m that perfect girl he was
always searching for? Does he think less of me now that he knows without
barriers or lies or false personas who I really am? Sometimes I wonder
if I haven’t disappointed him. I’m not his perfect little church girl
that follows all the rules and does right in the world. Sometimes I have
to question if god really even exists. Maybe I only say that because I
wanna keep my mind open, I guess what I really wonder is if he really
doesn’t exist. I’m a freethinker. I think out of the box. I don’t just
go on what I see or hear or taste or smell. I know there is an entire
world out there that I will never know about or see, and I know for a
fact it’s there. But still I wonder if god exists. With a god out there
would the world truly be like it is today? The world has gone to hell,
and I honestly don’t think that any god as all-knowing and all-seeing as
the one that so many people believe in can actually exist. No god would
let some things that happen in this world happen. But then again
there’s the other side of the spectrum. Maybe all these things are
happening today because not enough people believe in god. Not enough
people devote themselves to him, so he doesn’t have as much power as he
used to. Either way, he’s not this great all highly being that everyone
thinks he is. He’s just like us. He fucks up, he fails. So why worship?
This doesn’t really ever bother me, except for when David makes me feel
so inadequate for not believing, like I’m missing out or something. I’m
not missing out, I’m just sick of being misinformed I guess. Misguided
is probably a better word. In the end I guess I have a 50/50 chance.
Heaven exists or it doesn’t. I get in or I don’t. There’s no reason to
waste my life wondering, or chasing a cause that might not be there. I
just wish that david could respect that side of me. The non-religious
one. But none of it matters. None of this is leading anywhere or to
anything good I guess. I’m just upsetting myself more because I’m
realizing what is so wrong in my life and that I have no concrete way of
fixing it or bettering anything. Maybe I just need to roll with it. I
need to lighten up, and take things as they come. The days are warming
up, the skies are getting bluer and brighter and I’m still in my shades
of grey, it’s time to change with the seasons. Springtime is my season,
my time, my freedom. Open my wings, fly away and take those that believe
with me. It’s gonna be a wild ride, or at least an eventful one.
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