Natural Attachment

February 7, 2011

our stories – part 3 – who the fuck am i & where the hell am i going?

I’m in a funk.

I found myself depressed last week because of things that happened the week before; I had chosen to ignore my feelings at the time in an effort to have a positive and happy birthday week — for the most part, that worked, but it all caught up with me towards the end of this past week.

I thought about cutting (haven’t done that since I was like 12). I thought about running away (that’s never solved my problems, only made them worse). I’ve moved passed these things. Don’t worry, friends.

Now… here I am in a funk.

There are things I want to say, but it’s too late or not really important now. There are things I want to do, but I can’t. There are places I want to be, but I can’t go there now.

I tend to be a fairly guarded person (trying not to be here) and have a hard time letting others in, but in this moment, I’m having a hard time letting myself out. What does that mean exactly, I’m not sure. My eyes are welling up with tears right now as I type, but I have no idea why.

I’ve tried to talk some about what I am feeling and about some of the thoughts running through my head, but every time I open my mouth, nothing comes out right; I end up saying things wrong or saying the wrong things. I’m having a terrible time articulating what’s on my mind and it’s so frustrating.

Everything ends up sounding like I’m terribly unhappy and I am unhappy about somethings, but for the most part, I am very happy and extremely grateful for what I have and for who is in my life.

I need to say a lot of things to several people, but somethings, I don’t have words for and somethings, probably would be better off not said and like I said earlier, somethings would be too late and pointless to say.

Arrrgh, I’ve never really been in an emotional rut/funk like this before. I’ve had writer’s block, but never emotional-block or rather, articulation-of-emotions-block.

I’m really at a loss as to what to do. I feel like I need to spend some time away from everyone and everything and just sleep and write – write everything and anything that comes to my head. I need to figure shit out. I need to clear my head.

And that’s weird, because I spend a lot of time alone… well, a lot of time isolated from adults.

I need to figure out what I am doing anymore. I need to figure out where I am going these days. I think I’ve kind of lost myself and she was really fucking awesome – I’d like to have her back. Any time now. Thanks.

Jesus, I sound like a whinny 45 year old having a mid-life crisis (no offense to any whinny 45 year olds out there having a mid-life crisis) and I’m only 29.

I went through a such a terrible spell. A terrible spell of being such a terrible person in the past few months and not knowing how to not be terrible – feeling so literally out of control of everything that I just made life so miserable for so many people, people that I love. I was faced with an obstacle and I didn’t know how to deal with it, get around it or jump over it. So, I just tried to avoid it or run head first into it – needless to say, neither of those approaches worked.

I’m still not there. But, I think I see light at the end of this tunnel.

I don’t really know where to go from here, but I guess I’ll figure that out.

Everything always seems to work out in the end.

I have hope – I *have to* have hope, right?!

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For those of you who like comics. I LOVE the 3rd link – I relate to Nemi, but I am so much Erika in Dar!

Alison Bechdel

Dar!

Nemi

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Last but not least another good old xkcd.

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July 3, 2009

Nemi Does It Again

Filed under: Entertainment,Media — Tags: , , , — michele james-parham @ 6:31 pm

For those of you who don’t know, I am a HUGE fan of Nemi. I especially like it when she has something to say about children or being a child — she is afraid of growing up, despite the fact that she is an ‘adult’. In so many ways Nemi and I are alike. I admire her ability to sum up a person in a short little ‘talk-bubble’. So, here’s the most recent strip of Nemi. Click on the picture to enlarge it a bit.

You can find Nemi in the Metro every day or have it sent to your blog/news reader via this feed.

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"Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it." ~ Brene Brown