When I look out into the world, there are so many people. New faces, all different. Not even twins are the same. We all have our differences, our similarities, blah blah blah.
We've all heard this speech over, and over again.
But the fact is, we will never stop hearing this speech, as long as we live.
Fact.
However, I've never really thought about it. And I've never really honestly looked back on some of the decisions I've made in the past, and actually processed them.
I've been a real mumble jumble pile of dog doo doo for about the last month-ish. I keep thinking nothing is really ever going to be right. Nothing is going my way, nothing is really just the way I want it. But see, I've never really thought of that as a problem that I've ever had. I'm actually beginning to go through myself, dig through my memories, my brain, and my personality, and finding what truly is me, and what others have placed inside me.
Finally, I've figured out another puzzle piece to my life. Yes I am outgoing. We all know this. But, behind all of that crazy bubbly psycho girl you see walking the halls each day (In sweats and a sweatshirt. :D) I am also very controlling. Picky. Persnickety even. If something doesn't go right, I as a person, completely fall apart.
Now this isn't very good.
It seems as if lately, I've been falling apart more and more. I feel like there is just so much, but at the same time, there really isn't all that much. My brain, for some reason just expands a problem into the biggest bitch of a thing, as if every problem is the equivalent of having a close family member or friend pass away. I know this is happening, and I try to control it, and make it work, but quite simply, I just don't know how.
Feeling lost is not a good feeling. It's like in that fifth grade field trip for Halloween when you and your whole class go to a pumpkin patch, and there is a maze. For a fifth grader, the feeling of being lost, is getting separated from your group, in nine foot tall corn stalks that are ready to attack and eat your brains out... well, minus that part. Aside from all of that, getting lost, once you start getting older, does not necessarily mean
physically lost. More...
mentally.
Being lost mentally is so hard to repair. It's like having a car, with no motor. Indeed it is a car, but it can't do any of it's normal tasks.
I feel like that. I am going through my normal tasks each day, but less and less of me actually wants to do it. Less and less of my brain feels like working. Which only makes the hardest thing for me, even harder: Getting good grades.
I'm always motivated. I always have been. But for some reason, this year, I just haven't wanted to do
anything. I never want to listen to my teachers, I don't want to do the work, I slack off a bit more each and every day, and it's starting to hurt. I don't want to be that girl. The one who comes back to the high school reunion ten years later and is working at a McDonalds.
Now, I know that isn't going to happen, but there have been so many people that make me feel like that is what's going to happen to me if I keep it up. I feel like I want to tell them "But you don't understand! I am just going through a rough time. I really am! Now F** off!"
I want to tell every person that, but for obvious reasons, and because I'm a nice person... I can't. What I try to do to calm myself down though, is that they went through it. They have all gone through the trials of high school. They should all know, right?
But how would they know, if we are all different? How would they know if I'm just slacking or going completely insane, wanting to punch every last thing in the room? How can they tell the difference? Is there a difference? Why would my dad say I don't know anything, when he wouldn't know one damn speck more? He acts as if he's walked my life, crawled around in my shoes, and ran through my skin a million times more than me.
News Flash Daddio: I'm not going to be perfect. I'm never going to be exactly what you want me to be.
You want me to be a doctor?
I want to be a teacher.
You want me to have lots of money?
I just want enough. With the right family, and the right job, I can love my life just as much, if not more than a person with lots of money. Why would I need it if I'll have enough to put food on the table, and pay the bills? Why would I need any more than that?
See the thing is, I don't. I just want enough to be happy. Is that too much to ask?
Now, see, I know this isn't an excuse for bad grades, because I know, there really isn't. I know I've slacked. I know I have. But is it really just honestly that? Or is there something more, in my subconcious self, that is making me do these irrational decisions? Well, not necessarily irrational, but not totally acceptable decisions?
Is there even a person out there who has truly, and honestly even figured themselves out?
Could one possibly know themselves inside, and out, down to the very molecule?
Or are we all, as people who have walk this earth, balloons; merely floating around aimlessly, no where to go, no where to look forward to, only knowing at some point, somewhere, the wind will take us away, and we will eventually pop... gone. Forever.
So my main question is, what am I doing? I know I'm not a balloon, and I do have somewhere to go. But right now, I feel as if I am a hot air balloon. I have some control over my life, but very little of it. It's as if I'm a puppet, getting tossed around by the strings on my body, but only my legs do I have control of.
Is there any one person out there that is truly happy, in a complete bliss, totally in control of their life, or are we all just fake bastards that are aiming for that, but never quite succeed? I feel like we are. There is no solution for X in this equation folks. It is undefined. Untouched. No where to be found.
Ok... that was a tangent. I don't really know where I was going with that. I don't really know where I'm going with this whole post. I guess I'm just letting it all out. Now you, reading this are wondering,
is she ok? What exactly is going on?
Well, my friend. No need to worry. I am just fine. I don't exactly know what is going on myself, however, I am being optimistic, and keeping my head up. As all of you should be doing as well.
I'm not a huge fan of Katy Perry's
Firework, but there is a section of the lyrics that I actually listen to:
"You don't have to feel like a waste of space
You're original, cannot be replaced
If you only knew what the future holds
After a hurricane comes a rainbow"
The hurricane part is what really gets me, because it's true. You must go through the bad, to get to the good. When you go up, you must come down. The night always ends with the light of the sun.
...again, not sure where I was going. Deal with me here people. I'm not quite sure if I'm done rambling, or if I'm just going to keep on going till this block ends, or my teacher kicks me off of his computer.
But, for your sake, I think I'll be done for now. Expect a part two of this, or just some more mindless rambling and tangents in the near future.
Keep on keepin' on.
Sammy