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- From: llama@tramp.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine)
- Newsgroups: alt.angst
- Subject: people make my brain hurt.
- Message-ID: <86097@ut-emx.uucp>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 21:53:04 GMT
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- weird to feel this way, since external feedback has such a major role
- in my life, but there are days like today when people are just too
- tiring. it seems like so many of them are just pulling at me, like i'm
- made of playdoh and they're tearing off little bits and they won't
- stop and there's not going to be any me left for me when they finish.
- or they come to me and have ideas about how i will respond, what i
- will say, and i know there's no way in hell i can live up to them so
- i pretend as long as i can, i squeeze myself against the edges of
- their cookie cutters, pour my soul into their jell-o molds and wait
- for it to set.
-
- maybe i just need some fruit cocktail.
-
- maybe i just need a vacation. but what happens when they take away the
- mold and i spring back into my normal shape? that's the scary thing.
-
- everybody seems to want a relationship. i'm not sure i do. it's not a
- shortage of men -- there was the blind date last week, a guy at work
- i'd like to get to know, another guy at work who's asked me out. and
- there was the guy new year's eve. but none of these people are
- particularly compelling. the date was incredibly dull, i'm not trying
- to get to know the first guy at work, i haven't set up anything
- definite with the other one, i'm glad chris lives in another state.
-
- maybe i've devoted so much of my energy to some stuff i'm writing for
- myself that i don't have what i'd need to start a relationship. maybe
- i'm just being self-centered, unwilling to make room in my life for
- anyone.
-
- the problem with pushing everyone away and retreating into a quiet
- space where it's just me and words is that sometimes i need to come
- out and breathe and if i've pissed everyone who knows me off, i'll be
- lonely when i surface. why can't they just understand this
- instinctively? why do i have to feel so damned guilty for neglecting
- them?
-
- bleah.
-
- --
- sine | deb
- not on at all today. too gray.
-
-