Have you ever felt terrible about saying something? Knowing you were 100% honest? Knowing you won't take it back?
I feel like that right now...
We were sitting in the dining center: Heather, Geneva, Will, and I. I forget how we got there... Wait. I remember now. We were talking about next year and the fourth room that Paul will leave vacant. I had already decided that the room should remain empty because we could live happily with just the three of us and an extra $50 tacked onto our rent. It's just easier if less people live in the house. That's what I say, at least. For a while now, I have said and thought that I would move out of this house and into a better place next year. I love living in this house, but it would be nice to have a little better place to live. I mentioned this to them at dinner, and they both immediately objected because I said I might find somewhere in Fargo. I told them not to worry. Besides, it's not as if they have to live with me next year. Heather might live with Michelle, and Geneva..? I'm not sure what she would do. That makes me sad.
I don't want to live my life constantly pleasing others for their sake instead of mine. It's nice to be liked by everyone, but I'm growing tired of it. I hate always just giving in and perpetually doing things to make life easier on everyone else and not on me. I'm always picking people up from places, taking people to places, helping with this and that, washing dishes, cleaning out the fridge, running conflict interference. I hate it. I'm done with it.
I could care less if so and so said whatever to whoever else. It's not my problem. I don't need to get involved. Everyone is too nosy and too mercurial to really grasp that relationships are reciprocal, requiring an equal amount of commitment from both parties. It's not an alliance of convenience. It's about growth and understanding. It's learning from each other and teaching each other something new about themselves and ourselves. It's a beautiful, holy, spiritual union between two people.
I just feel like no one cares for any one else anymore. It's all about who is better than whom and in what way they can benefit each other for their own personal gain. It's about "one-upping" and bragging.
I'm just done with it.
I've entered a point in my life where I honestly feel like I'm doing something wrong by going against what my closest friends think. I feel betrayed that they don't trust that my decisions are well thought out and honest. I should be confident in my decisions, but that's hard to be when simply saying one wrong thing can spiral my relationship with them out of control, which is what happened tonight.
I should have been a little more tactful maybe, but I'm tired of being pushed around. I'm tired of being walked on and brushed aside. I'm tired of the negativity and the sarcasm. I'm sick of the lies and the gossip. I just want to graduate college and leave. I want to move on with my life and maybe forget... or stow away my memories.
I don't need this right now.
...and I'm over it.
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