I hope it's a phase. But I seem to fall into it once every year. Maybe it's the sadness in the fall. Maybe it's because I don't leave the house anymore. Maybe Ruth's death affected me more than I thought, on a level I'm not comprehending.
Fall is my stage of immortality. More than that, it's the time Reality and I have a fight and don't talk for awhile.
I haven't been sleeping lately. Rather just going through the motions of sleep. I went to bed yesterday morning at 8:45am. I wasn't tired, but my back hurt. I sleep. I dream. I wake up. But it all runs together.
Been listening to Fireflies by Owl City on repeat for the past few nights. Over and over. Nonstop. I like it. I'm not sick of it yet. There's something in it. The imagery? My memories of fireflies? No... It's laced like a poison with a chord that hits my heart.
I love music. My favorite songs usually remind me of times in my life, or people I know and love, or a time that hasn't happened yet, or something I want to happen. Fireflies makes me remember things I should forget.
I've been obsessed with webcomics lately. I read them nonstop. Start to finish, or where they leave off. Why? I don't know. I like to read. I like to draw. It combines that. I've been reading BL comics for some reason. I don't find it disgusting but it real life... it'd have to be an ideal situation. Very pretty feminine emo boys. But I haven't seen those in a while. And even then... I know guys like that, and they are not sexy usually. But it's made me dream of being a man with long black hair and a son. And I had sex with a woman and a man... at the same time. Eric says houses represent your Self in dreams. My house was build into the Earth. The entryway was lined with moss and vines. And to the left was a giant aviary. Cois in a pond. Cranes with their legs in the water. And giant tortoises. And my bedroom was dark, with red silk sheets. I get this feeling that I hate my boobs these days. I hate being a girl. Maybe I'm bitter because of the problems I've been having involving my lady business that has kept me from having relations with Eric. Maybe I'm tired of having two useless sacks of flesh hanging from my chest that serve me no purpose because they have virtually no feeling in them. Only causes problems when I unknowingly touch someone with them. I want to be one of those gay boys.
I have a doctor's appointment Thursday. I don't even think they set me up with the right doctor.. But that office is so unorganized anyway.
My cousin was killed in a car accident the weekend of Ruth's funeral. I didn't cry for him. I cried for my mom, my brother, and my aunt. I couldn't be sad for him. I know he didn't deserve it, but in all my life, he never said more than "Hey" to me. He was very handsome. He had one blue eye and one brown which I loved. But he was so cold and distant. He got into a lot of trouble when he was younger. But he got into the Army, turned his life around. He was engaged. As he was dying, he held his fiance's hand and repeated, "I love you." over and over. And that more than anything makes me cry. I am disappointed we couldn't have met once during his new persona life. Would I have talked to him? I'm so shy when it comes to everyone, even my family... almost especially my family. Maybe I still would never know him. But he didn't deserve it. It was black ice. He wasn't wearing a seat belt.
Do I really want to design clothing? In the end, I think I do. But I'm scaring myself out of it. I watched a documentary on a type of scholarship competition for the fashion industry. Almost half (if not more) of the people weren't turning a profit on their own. I don't want to be rich, but I want to make an impact. I want people to know me because of what the type of clothing I design means. I get inspired by people's personalities, music, anime, cosplay... I want everyone to dress like a freak just to show that no one is. I want to design clothes that people wear and feel like they are a part of them, not just cloth hiding their Eden shame.
Which brings me back to why I'm posting the ramblings, and why Reality and I are fighting.
Well, beside the fact that Reality is a bitch.
I get very desperately, depressingly obsessed with fiction. And it all started....
Picture a little girl with platinum blonde, gold hair. Peach and cream skin. Brilliant blue eyes. Now picture her with giant turtle shell glasses, ridiculous bangs, insanely crooked teeth. She's crazy. She talks to people that aren't their. But that's because no one is there. No one wants to be there. So she makes people. And that it okay.
Remember how you could "go out" in elementary school.
Imagine watching everyone around you find someone. Even at a young age. It's very lonely. Even your new freak friends. Even the ugly girls. The bitches. The spazzes.
Your best friend is a quiet Native American boy with a speak impediment who likes to pretend games with Godzilla and the chubby nerd boy who follows you both around. Best years of my life, best friends I'd ever have.
Imagine being told that eventually someone will think you're special, call you beautiful, love you... Love. They don't even know what that is. But I do. I love him.
That boy that finds me in my dreams. He has short brown hair that is never groomed, but it's perfect. You never see his eyes but they are deep, beautiful green. Like summer leaves. He has a sweet smile. Every night he holds me in his arms and tells me he loves me and he'll find me one day. And I look for him. I eventually accept that the search will take awhile, but I won't give up and I won't settle until I find him.
As soon as I give up looking for love, it finds me.
He's smart. He does Kung Fu. He's got a sweet smile... But his eyes are brown.
He treats me like I matter, like I exist. He makes me feel special. And as we wrestle each other to the ground, my heart skips because I wish he'd kiss me.
But we are young. And he is with another. Someone too self-destructive to leave. And he moves to Texas.
That's when my grades start to slip.
Then came a gypsy.
Brown hair, sweet smile... brown eyes.
Immediately evident what kind of guy he is. But after the first loss, I've lost all inhibitions. I want that kiss.
One night, I am lonely. I embrace another on a dock over a pond. The darkness is sweet. But the Fall is sadness. In this one's arms, I feel safe. But I can't...
Back to the other. He'll never love me. But that's okay. That's not what I want from him. He's important. He has a following. And they will envy me. Because I have been told I am so beautiful... and I want to believe it. So I kiss him in the moonlight. My first. It is soft and short-lived. But I don't regret it. He's slowly falling into my plans.
The other boy kisses me under the stars and we fog up windows, but I don't lose my innocence. But I would later run a red light and not notice. He would later hate me.
So I gain respect from my new friends, admiration. They all want me. So I sleep with him to try it out. Might as well try it once. He took it too seriously the first time. I am beginning to wonder if it's worth it.
But I've met someone new. Brown hair, sweet smile... brown eyes. He's my best friend, but he doesn't feel the same way. We kiss in the dark and hide what we are. He's just another escape. I love what he means to me. But that first kiss... Unplanned, perfect. The converging of the universe... I knew I'd never stop loving him. But he still pushed me away.
I cried every night those two years.
Eventually, I would give up. Forget these guys. They aren't my green-eyed prince. They are just shadows of what he means to me. My heart was free again.
Then... I met Eric.
Brown hair. Smart. Sweet smile.... Brown eyes.
I didn't want to love him. It was too soon. I didn't even think he was that cute at first. In that suit that was too big for him and made him look too young. He had an odd face. I didn't like it. But Lacey wanted him too. And I was caught up in competition.
We all went to IHOP. We talked until the next morning. And that would be our friendship. Me, Lacey, Jess, and Eric. We were inseparable. I was finally a part of something I had only read about or seen on tv. Friends. We did everything together.
And though Eric and I had everything in common and there was some definite sexual tension, I pushed him away. He didn't have green eyes. It wasn't perfect. Nothing less than perfection.
So he dated Jess, who turned out to be crazy. And while he hid from her at our apartment, he and I got closer. I could be with him and feel like I was alone... but not in a bad way. I couldn't sleep without him in the apartment, and sometimes in my bed. Yes, I became that person. Once I couldn't have him, I realized that I loved him or at least, had the ability to love him. I remember his ultimatum still. We were alone in the living room, and he asked me if I could be with him. I was afraid. I said no. I tried to kiss him goodbye. He'd never let me kiss him before then. I was... disappointed. Not the universe colliding kiss I had once. It made me bitter. Would I compare every kiss to that one from now on?
After much craziness. I convinced Eric to come back to me. And since then... it's like...
He's the other half of my soul or a missing piece. We can talk about nothing, and usually do, for hours. I'm never bored though. Even when he repeats himself constantly. We never argue except about stupid things like whether or not Twilight should be allowed to be liked even though it's not a true piece of literature. Or why should guys put the toilet seat down all the way, can they not just put the rim part down? Or why Trigun should or should not be considered a Western genre anime. He's my match. He's perfect. I'm so blissfully happy to be with someone so exactly like me but not enough to be annoying.
So why am I depressed?
Why am I having thoughts like, "I miss my misery."?
I miss being miserable. And I think it's because I've settled. Eric is not my green-eyed man. Though he's close. He's not the one that held me every night when I was young. Though he holds me every night now. Should I keep looking for the green-eyed boy or just accept that I am in love and could never leave Eric for anyone else but the green-eyed boy?
I know what I miss.
I miss the people that weren't there. They were a part of my heart. There is no one around anymore but the people that weren't there aren't here either.
I miss the field of flowers, glowing in the sunlight. Resting under the single, solitary tree. Watching the shadows dance and hearing the birds sing.
I miss meeting the green-eyed boy in the clearing on the edge of the forest. Dancing to the music that was played by no one. Dancing with the fireflies and the lanterns glowing warmly on the tree's branches.
The spring wind always reminds me.
But Fall is the sadness of lost love in the real world.
I am in love, but sometimes I am sad. I regret.
I missed out on the adventure.
I went straight from, "I decided I do love you." to, "You are my soul mate. Let's get married."
And in this situation, it's the only course of action that could have occurred.
But why couldn't I get that sense of romance and longing. The point where you can't decide if you hate them or if they're wonderful.
Reading webcomics and books destroys me. Which is depressing because reading is my life. But the love in all the books. It's never certain until the end. It's drawn out. Hell, Eric and I never went on a date before we decided we were going to get married. I missed the real romance of a date. The nervousness. The excitement.
I feel like I bypassed my own romance. It destroys me on the inside because, as someone recently reminded me, I am a romantic.
So deep in my heart, I cry for the green-eyed man. Because I may never see him. Or worse, I will see him but I will pass him by because I couldn't give up Eric for a silly dream I had when I was young and crazy.
I just want my life to be like my books or webcomics or movies. I hate you Reality. I hate you for what you've done to me. You've picked on me ever since I was little and you just won't give up.
I have to stop. I have to stop and be grateful for Eric. It's not that I'm not! I am so lucky and blessed and grateful. He's 96.5% of my green-eyed man. He's most of my dream. With him I'm happy.
It's just that when I can't sleep or I read or I hear the song about the fireflies.
I cry for a man I've loved all my life, but will never meet.
I cry for a life I will never live, but will dream of every night.
I feel better letting it out. But I'm still sad. Still mad at Reality.
So I'll just keep giving her the silent treatment until she apologizes to me.
Good night. And. Good morning.