Sunday, March 13, 2022

I am not a saint and I also get upset sometimes

My sincerity only extended from the fact that it has always been about myself. In my head, even the things I do for other people, it was an extension of what I feel and what I value. At the end of the day, I would see things that I did in the past, and how could I regret them?

They're all things that I do for myself. Sometimes I got a lot of help, and sometimes it's nice to have some people to cheer you on.

But I am stubborn and uncaring, and it feels so natural for me to think that way, that people don't owe me and I don't owe anyone, because I thought 'why would you do something that isn't for you?'

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Sometimes I will get hurt in the heart, and I imagine it like a bruise or a scratch. Not an open wound, or anything that bleeds, but just a minor thing. It stings a bit the time you got it, but then it will pass. It will probably hurt for a few days or so, and it will be a bit raw when you touch them directly, but perhaps you wouldn't think too much of it. 

Sometimes I can see that I was hurt, and I don't even remember when or how I got them--but I wouldn't care much, because it will heal, and it usually heals fast.


I get bruised in the heart so easily lately. 

Does not seem like a good thing at first, but I wonder if I have always been easily bruised, I just never noticed because I don't care enough.

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There are days when being normal is very trying. I don't think people around me really comprehend how much I suck up to be normal. I mean, they don't need to. But I tried really hard, at being normal thing. Whatever that means.

And it sometimes it crushed me a bit... or a lot, when I get told that I didn't pull it off as well as I thought I was.

Sometimes I want to tell them I don't even wanna (be normal). Sometimes I want to tell them I am really not (normal). Sometimes I want to tell them that this is already as normal as I can get and please just accept it.

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When I speak I tone down so many things, I feel. I am actually awkward, and I practice so I get to talk in more eloquent manner. For difficult subjects, I will rehearse it in my head, or to the darkness of my room, or write it down, hoping that when I talk it would at least has a good resemblance of what I have poured out then and there.

It usually didn't. But it still work out in the end, so I'll take that.

Sometimes.

Sometimes the subject will never come up, and I will never bring it up.

I will forget it.

And in retrospect, I feel like maybe, those are perhaps things I never need people to know anyway, and that it's enough for me to have an imagined scenario in my head, where I get to say things I want to say, even when I will never get an answer to it.

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I am patient enough.

I am very indulgent so for some things that is hard for me, I will probably take forever. But I hardly ever rush myself for those kind of things. I can wait.

I am proud of it, you know? Patience is a good virtue. I apparently have more for myself than I have for many other things in general.

It's just I think that people will not have enough for me, and I wonder if I would care.

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Sometimes I get a mood like this, where I talk about things that mostly upsetting, when I am not upset at the time.

I process awful feelings in a way slower rate than I am with better ones (and the better ones are pretty slow already).

It's a double-edged sword, I guess.

Because perhaps I don't feel truly miserable when it happens, because I have little clue of what's going on. And yet I don't feel truly miserable now that I see it in retrospect, because even though I understand more it's a feeling that no longer around.

I will get better in due time.

Monday, January 31, 2022

The New Year

Last year had been a lot of things and I hope this year would be kinder to me. 

I am happy. For some reason, I feel like whatever it was that I have had accepted cognitively, had just registered in my heart. In other words, I think I finally succeeded in accepting them emotionally as I was cognitively. I am happy to know this development as well, because it seems that I didn't really wait or notice if things I "take" as truth in my head is processed properly for me in the heart.

Among other things, this includes the idea that I am unashamedly selfish and that I am not bothered with the idea of not knowing. I thought these are just facts about me that I have known and embrace all this time, but growing up apparently also meant that the extent of my selfishness and my ignorance are challenged, and at this point I come again to a point that I feel is a new equilibrium. It's nice!

Every time I remember that I am my favorite person, it made a lot of sense why I'm so easy on myself. Maybe my growth stunted in certain way because of it but it's the price I pay for this much convenience and peace, that feels like an alright bargain.

When I was in Salatiga I was really happy. Last week there was a time I thought "I want to be happy again,"

Am I not? I think about it, and it seems wrong to attach so much happiness to a place and a memory. There were so many things that made me happy at the time, but ultimately, it was that I perceive them as a source of joy that it felt like a dream.

For me, a lot of things are a "I'm glad it happened". Some things I want to stay forever in my life--a constant, a routine, a bond--but that I got the opportunity to taste and experience the joy that it have given me, I am happy already. 

I want to continue to be happy and free, at some point I forgot that I could wait for my death enjoying life for the sake of it.


A bit of a note, it feels like I have been experiencing time or days in a very... conscious manner. I feel it passes. It makes days and weeks and months feels a bit like forever all the time, always feels like I experience a lot of things. Not sure if it's a good thing or not, but it's nothing horrible I guess. Don't know if it'll last.

Happy new year!