I know that at times, my situation is my own fault. I never like to negate the blame as far as lifestyle goes, because I chose that for myself. I chose isolation, I chose this bland reality of glaring computer screens and endless nights staring into the blackness at the ceiling, somehow wanting something more, yet never truly knowing (or caring for that matter), what it was. It just goes. I just go along.
I think that passiveness is both what I hate and what I love—it is always a draw. When I am passive, I don’t have to face anything; I ignore it, it then is no longer a part of my reality unless and outside influence forces it to be vomited forth once again. It can be buried under my layers of protection, virtually nonexistent. But that it just it, it still remains there, still is there. I forget that at times. It doesn’t just die, but stays to haunt, sometimes because I unconsciously seem to allow it to, a punishment for not being forceful and biting when I should have been.
So in retrospect, I am my enemy. And really, I do not see anything wrong with that. I have disentangled myself from my former life, so that now it is as though it never existed. I prefer it that way; no matter what I say at times, so scathingly of what has occurred, secretly it is my wish to have never endured it. To have been stuck in that hazy reality where it didn’t matter if I was lying, and it didn’t matter if nobody knew or cared. It was good to be surrounded by blatant apathy, as in a sense it kept me human. Back in the days when I believed in morality, I believed in friends and pursuing happiness. When I lied to myself to keep going.
Now I look for the darkest corners, hoping to find something that is more vile than what I have become, more hating, more disgusted, more self absorbed. Something to prove that this isn’t the end of all things, but the start of something that when I die will probably not even be half finished. I can only guess that there must be a million more fathomless pits to fall down, as this never seems to end. When I think I’ve had enough, the floor drops out again. And again, and again. The falling isn’t so bad; it’s the hitting the floor part. You convince yourself to get up again (for fuck knows why), to totter around on sore feet for awhile until you break another floorboard and sink right through. Again. And why, like a moron, you keep getting up again, you simply cannot answer. Human stupidity? A ridiculous sense of hope? Oh you can guess, surely, but eventually none of those answers make sense anymore.
There is no reason to try again and again except some sort of refusal to accept reality. The reality is that no one fixes their floors. Of fucking course you are going to go through. Accept it. Get a motherfucking parachute, or die on one of the floors when you decide to live up to truth, I suppose. I keep saying that, dying. Ah well, old habits take a long time to die, just like people.
You know, the way you put all of this, the imagery of floors always falling through, tottering around on sore feet as you say, this would make a great poem…lol. Or maybe even a story that goes futher into the subject. Ignore me, I just think you use some great imagery when you describe things sometimes, I think it’s a very valuable ability, and I struggle to catch on.
When ever I imagine hitting the bottom, it’s always a cold stone floor, and there’s never any getting back up. I just see a complete ruin, of what living flesh would look like if it impacted such a surface you know, very messy and very final. But the way you put it is certainly closer to reality, we do always, for whatever reason, pick ourselves up again. Trying to balance ourselves again, even as we know it will not last.
The truth is we can try all we want to make things right, but it is all for nothing, since in the end we all have to die. And I guess I don’t really believe things are completely destroyed, but that they are just turned into something different, just like water can boil into vapor, it’s not gone, it’s just in a different form you know? That’s part of the reason I think death doesn’t honestly scare me. Our bodies at least we know are turned into something else….sorry for rambling.
Everyone has darkness in them, and I think in order to survive, its important to realize its purpose and not just cast it off as evil that we’ve got to totally remove from who we are. Like trust and lying. You can’t trust everyone as some would like to, and you can’t go forever without having to lie from time to time along the way. That’s just how I see it. But I tend to cater to the darker, more self-destructive parts of who I am instead of minding a balance, so anything I say about surviving through life isn’t worth much…lol, but you know what I mean. I expect to be alone with a grim attitude toward my own future for how ever long the rest of my life is, and still I relate to everything you’ve written here very well. It couldn’t be more true that really “no one fixes their floors” as you’ve said. They must fall through eventually.
It’s sort of funny how I stumbled on to this without really expecting it. I looked up parts of a quote on google and your page popped out. I read this, and the odd thing is…?
I recognize it.
I recognize myself in it.
I don’t know why, but I got this urge to just… Talk to you. Right now? I’m not in the best state of mind. Hell? I’m not in the best state of anything, but, when you mention giving up on morality and friends and it being a way to fool yourself? I’d have to disagree. I know it isn’t really my place to put my opinion out there, but, the only joke in that is whoever you left behind. Not you. By digging yourself deeper in to the darkness – they have their laugh, and personally? I’m not really much for giving anyone a laugh at my misery. It’s okay to be upset. To be passive, or just… There. It’s fine, so as long as something positive comes out of it, because as I see it? If you’re at the very bottom, you can only go up.
And right now?
I don’t think you can get any lower.
Lift your head up, because no one is going to make anything better for you. You have to do it yourself. I know the familiarity of this state of isolation is comforting and smothering in a warm blanket sort of way, but you have to get out. And if there’s no way out?
Fine.
Make your own way.
I believe you can, partially because I believe in you. And I don’t even know your name.
Then again?
You don’t really have to see or know to believe in something… Someone.
I would rather be my enemy than my friend. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever had it any other way. Know thy enemy, right? Well, I know myself. Its kind of comforting and scary at the same time. Not many things are scarier than knowledge because you CAN know too much and you CAN know too little. Either way you are fucked. So when is enough, enough? I like to think its when it can kill you. That way I know enough to survive.
I enjoyed reading this! Thanks for reading mine.
Really, I think it is worse to know oneself too well than too little. In some senses, ignorance truly is bliss. I guess that being your own enemy does have its benefits, however, that’s if the knowledge doesn’t kill you of course. Being your own enemy is kind of like having a friend, actually. But that friend is just a little…homicidal and hates you beyond all belief. What a beautiful friendship it makes. Better than any other kind, in my personal opinion. At least we all hate ourselves enough to point out faults instead of dishing out compliments that are nothing but lies.