Well, I finally found my first relationship, at the age of 26. It really did help me to find peace. It’s actually been really nice to have the first time in my life, and I mean this entirely literally, that I didn’t think about suicide every single day. It slowly drifted back, a little, but only just barely, and only just a few time every couple of weeks or so. It hasn’t been terrible. I have realized some things, that I had already considered, but I am far too old a soul for all these senseless children. My boyfriend, and just for the sake of clarity, I am bisexual, and my current relationship is “homosexual”, but he has a severe inability to communicate effectively. This being only the most difficult of his flaws.
I don’t begrudge him his flaws. We all have them, and I have worked hard to be patient and understanding. I have always been very straight-laced and followed all the rules. He, however, is so like the youth these days, smokes week, drinks, parties, lives without any cares in the world. He is financially responsible and stable, but he has no sense of being an adult in a world of adults. He only knows how to live this “spontaneous”, time-wasting life. Don’t get me wrong, my time is not much more well spent, but I am good at keeping a schedule, whereas, he is just incapable.
So far, you see these ridiculous, small problems, but I promise, this is going somewhere. This all becomes a real shit storm, when you take into account the fact that he hasn’t come out, and doesn’t really plan to. I am trying to be patient, and let him have his time. I am concerned though, because he is 22, and has been in several relationships, the longest being a 2 year on again, off again, amounting to roughly 4 months total. I am literally his most stable, nearly longest relationship to date, but the truth is, I don’t think he wants to come out. I don’t mean as a bisexual, or that he has a boyfriend, but as being in a relationship at all. He doesn’t seem to know how to not be single. He doesn’t seem the want to be anything but single. His family and friends are not the kind of people that he should fear coming out to. He just doesn’t want to have it conflict with his life. I should have realized this, he did say that he started the dating thing because he was “bored”.
I am no fool, I know and knew all of this. The fact is, he really isn’t sure what he wants. He wants both, but thinks that he has to choose one or the other. He doesn’t know how to make me part of his life. I saw all this coming, I suppose. It is just my first relationship. Kind of pathetic that it took me until 26 to find one. There are many things ‘wrong’ with me, because I am not a ‘young’ person. I never was. The youth in this age are more stupid than any other time in history. At any other time in history, they would have learned responsibility, and empathy, and punctuality, but not this day and age.
The worst thing, I have been thinking about other people as potential mates, even the last person that I had unrequited love for. A person that, I work with, of course. It’s very self-sabotaging. I am a hopeless romantic. I know what a relationship takes. I know the commitment it takes, and I am not going to give up, because of a few rogue impulses, but I don’t think he, nor any other person my age understands true commitment. Not any person that would have me. I guess, I should mention the fact that we had alternate work schedules and he is busy for the most part on the weekend, so we hadn’t had much time together. However, he did just change his schedule to match mine, which comes into effect on Monday. Now, the real problem, he tells me I am only part of the reason for the change. So the real question is, did he care that he would have more time for me? Who knows? I don’t.
I can wait and see, but the real issue is that I am looking to settle down with someone. I don’t have a lot of time for these games. I have known what I want, and I have been prepared for a long lasting relationship for a long time, but I don’t think it exists. I don’t think that my one reason for life actually exists. He did say he wants to pursue something long term with me, but he has to wake up and smell the flowers, he has to make room for me in his life…. PERIOD.
I have a very different set of beliefs when it comes to life and our reason for being here. I am a reincarnationist, and I am pretty certain, if for no other reason than my unusual maturity, my sage-like advice, and my personality that seems unaffected by nature or nurture, that I am a very old soul. Every day, I look at the childish nature of the world, and I think more and more that I am too old, and they are all too young. I have always had a billion ideas, and my mind never rests. Even in my sleep, it races on, in the form of deep, complex dreams, of which I can have many in a single night. They seem to be more unique than those of anyone else I have compared them to, and with such vividness.
The fact is, I feel that I am one of a few that has to do something to fix all these problems in the world. Of course, I would need help, as I am but one man. However, there is no help, and I really don’t care much about the world that has treated me so poorly. I was bullied as a child, mostly emotionally, by members of all parts of my life, from school to home. But I grew, I have always been strong, I wanted to make the world a better place. One where no one suffers as I have. However, I also needed that mate. It might be foolish to find someone to make my life complete, but the reality is that I have this whole where love usually goes. They say that you should find happiness in yourself, but the fact is, you do, absolutely, need love from at least one person. Love is a NECESSITY, to human beings. No matter how many psychologists and psychiatrists tell you otherwise, the fact is, you need it. It’s like purpose, and maybe that’s what it is, but without purpose, life loses worth. It has happened to a majority of people in places like the US, where we aren’t given a sense of purpose and souls without it are so empty. I see it in the eyes of so many people, like most of my coworkers. They just do things, because they are supposed to, and because they have nothing better to do. Some of them, the married ones have that love. I think it gives us that same sense of purpose.
For me, I have always lived to have a family. Not because of some biological urge. It is just the thing that I find most fulfilling, outside of all those sexual urges, and hormonal forces. It’s all I ever wanted. Just before I met my boyfriend, I came to a point where I stopped caring. I literally stopped. Even now, I still don’t care as much as I once did. And while it has made life so much more bearable, it is also a double-edged sword. If I decide I want to die, there is so much less there to keep it from happening. There is no reason for me not to die if I can’t find a mate. I was going to do these great things. I don’t care as much. Humanity will die out, and that is as it should be. I am so angry and calloused now.
The funny thing, and possibly worse than suicide, is that I would love to be the one who brings about the end of humanity, if I cannot find my mate in a timely manner. Assuming, that my bf is not the one, which, let’s be honest, seems likely. It’s been a long time since I honestly, and truly considered suicide, and I forgot how it felt. I really, truly want to go and buy a gun. Luckily, way too late for that. It’s irrelevant anyhow, I won’t, yet. As long as I have something worth fighting for, I suppose I have no real reason to eat a bullet.
If it happens again, I can’t tell anyone like last time. It just has to be spontaneous. I will not go to a hospital. Oh well, we shall see how things go. I need to attempt to get sleep. I don’t really know what else to do, since everything just became so infinitely pointless. I have zero ambition at the moment. Goodnight.
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Wounded Soul – This post seems to be an incredible progression from your previous post. It’s been a while since that post, so I’m guessing that tax return came and went. This man seems to be good for you, he’s keeping you here and making you feel the fraction of the love you so desire. I’m extremely sorry that you haven’t had the luck and fortune to receive that love because I truly believe you deserve it. But flaws make a person human – everyone is different, so I don’t believe it’s entirely your partners fault for not having the emotional capacity to make you a part of his life. I think you, as a person, are worth a lot and if you take a chance with these co-workers (in case this relationship doesn’t work out) I honestly believe you’ll receive that love, and not just the fraction you already have. You self-sabotage A LOT by not taking these chance that may arise.
Please don’t “Eat a bullet” quite yet – you seriously intrigue me and I’d like to hear more from you and your life. Don’t take this the wrong way, but suicide is the coward’s way out, so don’t claim to be “strong” if this is the option you take. You may call me a hypocrite for saying this even though I am considering the option myself. But I am coward – I don’t believe you are.
Believe me – many people here care about what you have to say. I look forward to your future posts.
Sorry, I haven’t posted in a while. I am still alive. I am still with that guy. I don’t know yet, if it’s a good idea. I mean, it could be much worse, but I can’t be subject to someone’s incessant inability to figure his shit out.
I did want to comment on the coward thing, it’s a matter of perspective. I mean, for me, I often see myself as a coward, because it was fear that kept me from driving a slug through my skull. But then, there is the aspect that it can be cowardice in life that drives people to death. To me, it’s a no win situation. I feel that life is a zero sum game. There are no gains and losses, life just is. It just exists for the sake of existing, and that brings great disappointment to me. Hell, no matter how hard anyone tries, humanity has continually, and disturbingly, found itself repeatedly in the same situations, over and over. They learn nothing from the past. I feel that today, with the level of immaturity that humans have degraded to, they are getting ready to repeat another great tragedy, because they are puerile and ridiculous. I wish that this weren’t the case. I feel that I should be doing something to avert this catastrophe, but I don’t see it as a possibility.
As for the tax return, I am still sitting on the money. I am good at managing money, but I always end up buying expensive stuff, to make me content. I always buy it in cash, never with debt, but still….
I don’t feel that I am going to find love. If I leave my boyfriend, I am not any more likely to find it somewhere else. I don’t think that I am a priority for him. That’s been one of the best reminders of my unending loneliness. The fact that I am constantly thinking of others, even if it’s something pointless as getting back to someone who has messaged me right away, or more useful ways of helping people, like helping my dad bleed the breaks in his car. However, I never expect anything from others, and I never get anything because of that. Apparently, people can only help those that demand it, instead of helping people who desperately need it. One of my closest friends has gone the last few conversations without asking me how I am doing, just jumping into what crap is going on in her life, and how awful it is.
I don’t really know how to wrap this up, but thank you for your response, and again, apologies for the time that has passed before replying.
I don’t think it is a good idea – you’re with him because you’re scared of being alone. Believe me – everyone’s capable of finding love. 🙂 And someone who actually understands them.
I do sort of agree with what you said about life just being, so I can’t really say anything. All I can say is that I hope your perspective changes. People are slowly getting dumber. And I think there will be some kind of tragedy soon. Not to the point of nuclear war – but something devastating all the same. There’s most likely nothing we can do about it. The world’s Superpowers’ will be calling the shots and deciding what happens. You’re powerless unfortunately.
About the tax return. Why don’t you use it to travel? It might help you a lot more than you’d think to be in a different place and a different situation.
You say that you’re not a priority. Tell him how you feel. Demand that attention because that’s the only way you’ll get it by the sounds of it. Make it be known that you’re lonely, despite the fact that you’re in a relationship. If he loves you, he’ll give you what you need. You sound like a good person, you deserve the attention, so I hope only the best of you. By the way, unless you tell your friend to shut the fuck up, to be frank, it’ll never change. Tell her that she’s being self-obsessed and if she was a true friend she would care about you too. Then tell her that you’re not okay, and all your problems. It will help, honestly.
You’re welcome for my response, and I’m sorry for replying to your reply so late.
I don’t think I’ll be on this site much from now on. 😀
So have a nice life.
And keep me posted on whether things improve. 🙂