What the hell am I doing?
It’s taken me three hours to get past just reciting that question endlessly in my head.
I listen to other people and I begin to think maybe I see one of the problems causing me so much trouble. There is a distinct delineation that they have, a definition of lines they are sure to adhere to. Cut and dry and compact. Bold.
All my lines are blurring. I cannot define even if I were to use a metaphorical chisel.
I don’t believe in making something less than it is because it is not conventional. I use the buzz words without thinking, out of habit, and so people can understand a little of what I’m saying, when really the buzz words mean nothing to me. People are people to me, there are no lines, no definitions, no boxes that suit when it comes to them. And maybe that’s where the communication gets severed, where the synapses misfire, because some part of me yearns for that stability and when I cannot produce it I am thrown into utter mental mayhem.
Really I get hurt by the tiniest things. Never at all what you would expect. And, if I’m honest, never at all by what I would expect either. The trick is deciding when the hurt is justified. When is it concrete enough to be given voice to? The trick is not falling into established patterns. Not dissolving away, mired in confusion, knowing no more than I did to start with knowledge wise, just adding another notch to my hurt belt.
The trick is deciding what is that I’m doing. What it is that I want, and from who, and when. What I want to give.
The trick is saying all the things I have to say. Not tripping over my reticence. Not being restricted by my knowledge that it will just be used against me. Not regretting the things I know I will, though it is much too late for that, mostly. Not having this wall that always separates me from every single person in my life. Sometimes it is so transparent that I don’t even notice it’s there until I run smack dab into it at full tilt.
The trick is deciding to let fantasy go and concentrate on the real world. And not feeling that is conforming to ideals I don't believe in.
The problem is it was never a question of fantasy and real to me.
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Interesting conversation with oneself....or is it?
"The trick is deciding what is that I’m doing. What it is that I want, and from who, and when. What I want to give."
Yes I know how that goes. I seem to always be stuck in that quandary… If I knew the answers to those questions I’d be happier. But really, by the fact that I am even thinking about those questions makes me wonder if I am ready for some of the answers. And that makes no sense. I really need to cut back on the caffeine. What I wonder is if the lines blurring is really a bad thing?
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