I am lost. At 28 I thought I would have it all figured out, you know? The confusion. I thought life would make a little more sense, and I would know how to conquer all those little issues that get so knotted and are seen like problems, when they are really just small issues. I have been having weird dreams lately, mostly about my past, that past that seems to never cease to stop haunting me. Am I ready to tell my story? I dont think I will ever be ready.
I always wanted to be someone who is exceptional, someone who is above average; I hate average. I mean that with everything, me as a person, me as an artist, me phisically. I always wanted to be the women others looked at with amazement and mystery. But Im starting to realize, maybe I am just average afterall.
I am not a very sociable person. In fact I am not sociable at all. I cant seem to be comfortable around strangers, I tend to fidget alot and look at the ground, and talk very softly and speak rarely anything. I feel ackward and just not right. I have created a world in me. A world that is mine, and only mine. A world where reality gets amped up, and becomes a fantasy, a world where memories are created just to have a good story to tell.
Who am I? I have asked myself that question for so many years now, and for once I think I am starting to figure myself out. It makes me laugh because I am probably the opposite of what I dreamed of being. But those were just dreams, right?
This is what I have so far. I am an artist, who loves loneliness but is terrified of it at the same time, I believe I havent met my full potential, because I am lazy. Yes lazy.I wish life and oppurtunities where handed to me. I get amazing ideas, but shut them down as soon as they pop up because maybe im a pessimist, even though I have always seen me as a realist.
What about love? Im a big believer that that honeymoon stage everyone speaks of, when you first start dating someone, should be felt for the rest of your life, if you are with the right person. I believe there is a person out there for all of us, I do. I am a hopeless romantic, and that right there is a mean for a broken heart. My heart has been broken, in many different ways, by different people. When I was 14, I remembered my girlfriends and I played the ouija board, and I remembered I asked If I was going to die, and of course, it said yes, then, I asked " How will I die? from what? what is the cause of my death? " And in about 30 seconds, which by the way felt like hours, it wrote, the cause of your death will be from a broken heart. So ever since that moment, I knew it wouldnt be easy.... And at 28, I still believe what that ouija board said.
Love is so so complicated, but no one really tells you. Love does hurt,it tears you apart,it makes you sob like you have never cried before. Yet, love is so strong, so magical, that with a hug, it can help you mend your shattered heart, it will then lift you up, take you to the clouds, just so you can be shattered again...It is a never ending circle. I know life is all about settling down, finding that person compatible enough for you to share your life with. But I believe that is exactly what people are doing, they find that person, and marry them. I believe in the opposite. I believe, you cant just search and find them. I believe in destiny. I believe that you shouldnt compromise, that you shouldnt settle until the right person shows up. That person, will drive you insane, will make you believe their lies, will make you cry, will make you live in a trance of unrealistic battles, but at the end of the day, you will stay with them, because you will realize, they are part of you.You will realize that before them, you never felt things so real, emotions so strong. You will realize that you dont want to go through life without them, because life would be gray. So I came to the conclusion that when I said that love was for masichists, I was right. 100% percent, and well, I am a masochist.
Life is a maze, you enter it, there are no directions, just opinions and advice.You take and listen as you please, you hit many dead ends, many walls, many curves. But what I wonder, once you get to the end, when your years have made you wise, do you understand the meaning of it? does it make any sense? do you finally know who you are? I was once told life was about feeling, being open to feelings, like happiness, anger, sadness. I was once told that sadness was the closest you would ever feel to be alive. That pain was that reminder. That if you were always happy, you were not living, you were just hiding. I am not sure how much of that I believed when I was younger, but now, it begins to make sense. Maybe sadness isnt so bad as we think or as we were trained to think. Maybe happiness is emptiness, because when you trully feel, when you trully want, sadness is always a companion down that road, because its not easy. So when I hear someone talk about how happy they are, for me, they arent living, for me, they are lying to themselves. What is life without heartbrake? without tears, without sadness? what exactly?
What about direction in life? I lack direction. I dont believe money buys happiness. Maybe if it did, maybe I dont want to buy happiness, maybe I just want to feel, to feel the realness of love, of life. I believe you can have all the money in the world, but if you have never trully loved, you never really lived at all, and with a full bank account, one day you will realize, how empty your life really is. I am a firm believer in that. So I feel that is my excuse for lack of direction. And i am ok with that. Im an artist, a poet, a dreamer. Doesnt pay much, but it makes my heart wealthy. Wealthy of feeligs, of love, of hurt, of pain, of happiness, of anger, of realness, of numbness, it makes me wealthy in ways i see important. If you dont agree, thats your opinion, and youre entitled to it, but thats why this is my life, my beliefs, and not yours.