Madame Bitters ([info]msbitters) wrote,
@ 2002-07-03 20:45:00
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hmmm...
I'm spent the past few days in a state of waking sleep. I've found trying to explain my current mood very difficult and end up making myself sound vague and mildly insane. It feels like I'm subconsciously waiting for some kind of experience... only now it isn't subconscious and I'm actively trying to ponder what it might be. In every conversation I feel some sort of anticipation, as if I'm waiting for the momentous comment that will come from the other end to make me feel somewhat more whole again. But from every experience, excursion and conversation I walk away feeling disapointed. This disapointment isn't subconscious, it's very apparent to me and it's dipped me into a sort of malaise that I haven't been able to pull myself out of for the past couple of days. I find myself acting fake; laughing a laugh that isn't mine, giving the impression of satisfaction from the outcome of something, and only to turn around and instantly resume the blank, tired expression that has resided on my face recently. I have spent all of today with my eyes out of focus, the state of comfort (resignation?) that they reach when they've been staring at something for a long time, and only snapping out of it when I avoid something with a potentially dangerous outcome. But then all of these avoidances have been subconscious too: I react instantaneously, only realizing half a moment later what I've just barely managed to skirt, and then my eyes lose their focus again. Perhaps it's these reflexes that I should be concentrating on... perhaps all this repitition is frustrating me to the point that perhaps I SHOULD be doing something dangerous. Perhaps this is the experience that I've been waiting for. But again and again my reflexes get the better of me. I've also been entering into conversations that I wouldn't have been getting into before... when I was in a more right state of mind. And in these conversations saying things that I keep hoping will inspire some sort of anger, thus inspiring some sort of anger in me. I really want to scream at someone. Verbally rip them apart until there is nothing solid left of them... until there's nothing solid left of me... until I am nothing more than dripping snot and tears, writhing on the floor with the final understanding that it was only my frustration and anger that was sustaining my solid state and that now that I had become entirely liquid, I would have dripped down the drain with mucus-like droplets.

What I need is the feeling of the complete absense of walls, ceilings and gravity.



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[info]julietcomplex
2002-07-05 03:25 am UTC (link)
welcome to being jaded. or just bored. heh.
your willingness to say harsh and abrasive things (just to get a reaction) seems like a willingness to have those things said back to you. darling, you're a strong kid, but are you sure you can handle the possible repercussions of that sort of backlash? i'm not talking about a physical beating, but the same verbal or mental attack that you've been trying to deal. under ordinary circumstances, i would suggest a "time out" from friends and other things that make you cringe with uninterest, but it seems that that's all you've been doing. away for a month, etc... i want you to take care of yourself, this is one of the more alarming entries you've ever posted.
you may be angry and frustrated, and a good release of these things is necessary for the retention of sanity. but. it will not mean your imminent doom as a solid object of matter. you will not liquify. you'll just feel better.
i think everyone wants you to feel better. (i apologize for the incoherence here.)

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[info]msbitters
2002-07-05 08:24 am UTC (link)
I understand what you're saying about the backlash, and I completely agree. I wholeheartedly think that I'm setting myself up for opportunity (?) to feel offended and hurt and frustrated, perhaps just to have some kind of reason for feeling all of the emotions because of a rational reason to. I do that a lot: set myself up for hurt soley for the opportunity to react to it. But regardless, thank you, and I feel better already.

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[info]julietcomplex
2002-07-12 01:52 am UTC (link)
you're not the only one who sets themselves up etc.
i know i do it, but i don't seem to realize it until i get slapped in the face and all shocked and wide-eyed i resolve but do it again.
sigh, god help me to learn.

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[info]arkhanesh
2002-07-12 11:53 am UTC (link)
speaking of slapped in the face ;)

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[info]julietcomplex
2002-07-12 11:21 pm UTC (link)
i'm sorry, kt.

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[info]julietcomplex
2002-07-12 11:28 pm UTC (link)
after some thought, i wanted to point out the difference in what i said and what i meant.. perhaps you were confused as well. see, the mental backlash is not just what someone might do to you. it's also how you might make someone feel. those kinds of consequences are not so much irreversable, but pretty darn close. do you want to hurt someone? knowing that just because you hunger for abuse, they don't necessarilly?
just a thought
and out of touch until sunday. or monday. or later.

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