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Friday, August 17, 2001
Tying in to your flying metaphor: Pick a star and reach for it, keep climbing until you reach it, and if you don't or it's not quite the star you thought it was. Grab for another before you fall, or at least try to grab one on the way down. That way you'll be that much closer to wherever you're trying to climb to. On another note, I will be gone again next week. I will be doing field work in vancouver for my dad's business. Woohoo, finally a paying job!
inspired by a close friend of mine, i've decided to transcribe my thoughts, at least after a fashion. i doubt mine will be quite as insightful, nor as eloquent, seeing as i am not as gifted as he. but that, i supose it part of why i'm writing tonight: a feeling of lack of self-worth. i keep wanting to be more than i am, have more than i do. i know this is natural for all human beings, but i can't help from feeling that i'm asking too much. that i don't deserve what i'm asking for. all my life people tell me i'm special, that i'm a really nice guy, or smart or good looking or whatever. but are they saying what they really think? do they really think that of me, or are they simply saying nice things to try and make me feel better? or to help them feel better about themselves, the same way you might feel better about yourself for letting a mosquito get away rather that squish it for taking your blood. am i really something special, someone unique? or am i, as tyler durden would say, not a special and unique snowflake, all part of the same compost heap? i WANT to be something special, so that people will want to be around me, want to know me and be my friend. but deep down, i know that's not the truth. i know that i'm no different than everyone else. no, i am different. i'm worse. everything i've ever believed, everything i thought i stood for, turns out to be something unatainable. i'm just a worthless waste of space who trys to justify himself by hurting other people. aw fuck. i can't get this right... i can't seem to say what i want to. all i've ended up doing is wallowing in self-pity. some people want to change the world. i want to change myself. i want to put aside my past, my shortcommings, my problems, and MOVE ON. go out there and see what the world has to offer. and everytime i think i've done it, something pulls me back. it's like going bugee jumping, only in reverse. just when i think i'm about to break free, and leave it all behind, the rope pulls taunt and i come hurtling back to earth, to reality. but then i wonder if it is, in fact, the way things have to be, or if i just can't let go? maybe the bungee cord is gripped in my hand, not tied to me, and all i have to do is find out how to let go. (ok, the bungee metaphor is getting out of hand now) the people who are trying to help me, or think they are, don't really understand... i'm stuck between two worlds, and they think that by throwing me a life-line from the world i'm trying to leave is help. the one's who are helping are the ones who are waiting for me, paitently, in the new world, the one i'm trying desperatly to reach. they're not doing anything, they're just THERE. waiting, believing i'll get there someday. they understand. they may not know it, but they do. ah... Tuesday, August 14, 2001
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