Sunday, October 2, 2016

a list of stupid things written by an insomniac


I haven't slept yet.
  • I wish that I could connect to music with happier lyrics, but whenever I'm listening to sad songs I feel like I'm at home, and when I listen to something hopeful I feel like a fraud.
  • I've been squandering my talents and worsening my character flaws lately.
  • I miss my old friends but don't know what to say to them or how to connect to them anymore.
  • I like staying up all night and sleeping during the day because it enables me to continue isolating myself,
  • There was this, like, lucid moment of clarity that I had in my life a couple years back that made me realize how out of place I feel.  I was at my aunt's house with my family, just staying quiet and listening to everyone else's conversations like I usually do, and suddenly everything went horribly wrong.  I accidentally stepped on or kicked my aunt's chihuahua. It was nothing serious, but enough to make her yelp out in pain.  Suddenly time stopped for me. I was in the center of a circle of my relatives staring at me and I shut down.  My eyes started tearing up and I couldn't even say a word.  I just needed to leave the entire house and stand outside.  That was the moment I realized that I don't even feel open and at ease with my own family.  The worst part is that I don't even have an excuse to feel this way, because I can recognize that they love and care about me.  Despite that, I continue to live feeling like a cheap real-life knock off of T.S. Eliot's J. Alfred Prufrock.  All this over a dog that was completely fine, alone with the family I've been with my entire life.
  • I've been running away from participating in life because I feel that I'm not good enough yet and that I need to be better before I begin, which is stupid and impossible.
  • When I watch T.V. shows and films I form weird emotional fixations on the characters sometimes and feel kind of hollow when I finish them, as if they were my real friends, and I feel like some sort of alien in a skin suit.
  • It's been 3 summers since I moved to Idaho.  I love this place, but I still haven't made a single friend here.
  • I'm extremely self-conscious about how whiny and self-deprecating this post is going to sound but I can't run away from myself anymore, and keeping things to myself would just be business as usual.
  • I want to be a better.
  • this is the song the blog is titled after:

What am I doing?

I feel that I've shut myself away from everyone and everything in these past years and this blog is going to be an outlet or some kind of first step in repairing myself.
I've been oddly fixated on this image for a while and can't seem to move on from it.