For awhile now, I've been wanting to write a funny post. Unfortunately, the events of my life are not conducive to funny journals.
I do not work well under stress. Put me under pressure and I will falter and fail. I am one of those people who works better not working at all.
I am not lazy, just weary. I'm overly sensitive and easily overwhelmed. I am delicate and fragile and it's just not a good way to be.
I can recognize these short comings within myself, but there isn't much I can do. About them. Being awake and aware does not mean you are enabled to correct errors. Sometimes upon waking all I can do is stare at these faults with dismay.
I am not willfully dense, but often I am obtuse in a direct contradiction to my overly sensitive nature. Mostly I believe said obtuseness comes from the fact that so often I let my mind lay inert. I know why though.
Being awake while others sleep, seeing what needs to be done as opposed to doing it. I know what needs to be done, but more often than not I have no clue.
We live in a world which values independence. To be independent. To stand alone. To be able to handle all the things which life throws at you with courage and stoicism is looked up upon as a great strength. If you can stand on your feet and laugh at the world as it tries to bring you down, if you can rise up to the mountain by the mere force of your own steam, if you can plow your way through a crowd and make a million friends and keep them interested, if you can be successful despite adversity you are lauded as a strong and mighty person! You have great character! You are in fact as a human being a success!!!!!
I am not such a person. I am timid not easily brought to anger (or to use said anger). I cannot handle my life on my own. I have no confidence. I am dependent on others to help me move forward. While my ideals and morals are mine and I hold on to them fiercely despite the storms around me, I simply am able to stand up to the winds of adversity. I am dependent, soft, spineless. I am all the things which are pitied as failures.
I fear being wrong to the point where I do not make committed statements. I only speak in generalities. Because of said fears it is hard to pin me down to just what do I believe, just what do I feel, just what the hell?
Conflict is my enemy and I will do anything in my power to avoid it. I can be harder to pin down than a politician. Getting me to sit down and tell you THIS IS IT, this is how I think and feel is like making two positively charged magnates stick together. I rarely, rarely let someone see inside the depths of who I am and while I am extremely honest I can be so deceptive in that manner.
I am not this way of my own accord, in fact I try very hard not to be this way. I know it frustrates people to the point of anger and I try and try even harder not to be how I am. The fact is even if I let you in, chances are I'm still going to hide myself.
Do I think I'm loathsome? No, but I don't expect the fact that I love and care for myself an automatic indicator that others will love and care for me and I maintain that once people do get to know me any love they have for me will vanish.
I am not lovable inside or out.
I am loving though.
I am strange, but not amazingly so. I am just mundanely off. Nothing special. I am wishy washy and in order to survive I need a help. I am a parasite *cries* nothing but a parasite simply because in order to function I need a stronger host to support me.
I am aware of all these things, but fixing them well not so easy.