First off? "Flannel Pajamas" fucking sucked. Like, wow, give me those two hours back. Oh, and it wasn't even over. I'm sure there was only ten minutes left, but I don't care. The only way the movie would have been salvageable would be if a masked gunmen burst in at the end and shot all the characters to death. Christ.
So I was doing pretty good today. Toodling along, happy with most everything and enjoying the sun. Then M asks me what's going on and I give my pat answer that nothing is going on and then he asks me again and all of a sudden I have verbal diarrhea and I'm unloading all my neuroses and fears and hopes and I'm sure he'll never ask me how I'm doing again. For some reason I have this propensity to divulge things to him with the most minimal prompting.
Anyways. I just don't know. I must have said that about six times to M. I don't say that often: I usually do know, or at least I'll pretend to know. But I don't know.
I am unaccustomed to being put in the position to be the instigator of certain things and I don't understand if I am being put in this certain position because the feeling is not mutual or because the situation is infinitely complex. Because I love when things are complex. I do not understand if this particular predicament requires patience, or if I am supposed to take the initiative or if there is actually no predicament at all.
Right. I am not the same person that I was a year ago. It is selfish of me to expect to be immediately accepted as this new, beautific individual given the six years of fantastic and tumultuous behaviour that preceded it. I am ultimately asking to have my cake and to eat it too. God, I like cake.
I'm being petulant. Am I? Fuck. And narcissistic. This is the burning question then: is there anyone out there that will put up with my petulant narcissism, and how much would I have to compromise? I would prefer not to compromise at all, but in my (extensive?) experience it seems that something's got to give.
Bleh. So I don't know. And I will try. Perhaps I will take the initiative. And it will work, or it won't work and I will go on and it will be one thing that I tried and whether it fails or succeeds I shall be glad that I had the balls to try it in the first place.
Wow. Good chat. Thanks for talking me down from the ledge there. Though I'm normally even-keeled I sometimes get inextricably wrapped up in my own non-important reveries. Thanks. How is life treating you, these days? I think we should get together for coffee soon. Maybe a biscotti, too.
"What I want to say is this: - If you logically try to persuade a person that there is no absolute reason for shedding tears, the person in question will cease weeping. That's self evident. Why, I should like to know, should such a person continue doing so?"
"If such were the usual course of things, life would be a very easy matter," replied Raskolnikoff.
- Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky
"If such were the usual course of things, life would be a very easy matter," replied Raskolnikoff.
- Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment