A lot of people I know say that they are there for me. Â That they will listen to what I say and not make their own assumptions. Â But they are never there, and they never listen. Â They make their assumptions, and state their opinions as if they are the facts of the world. Â The counselors ask me questions that I mainly can’t answer, because it would give some secret away. Â And when I do answer, they say I’m lying, give their own answer, and decide that they are right. Â Even thought they don’t know the things they say about me. Â They are supposed to be professional, yet they base their reactions, responses, every single word, off of their emotions. Â They expect me to trust them, when all they do is give me reason not to.
My parents are the same. Â They say that they love me, and also say that I love them. Â I don’t. Â If anything, I wouldn’t notice or care if they died in some accident. Â Mom cries when she hears that I don’t care, when she knew it all along. Â Dad is impassive. Â A passive-aggressive person. Â I explain to them once again why I don’t care, why I have no reason to care, and why I do the things I do. Â And they still don’t understand, because I explained it too well, too intelligently, that they can’t comprehend it. Â They are not there for me. Â I don’t want them to be either.
People lie and make promises they don’t intend to keep. Â But they still expect me to respect, trust, and love them. Â How can you respect someone, when they don’t give you any reason at all to respect them? Â Why trust someone, when all they’ve ever done is break their promises and betray you? Why love someone, when they aren’t deserving of it?
I admit, I don’t deserve any of those things either. Â And I don’t want them. Â Not from humans, who often will turn on themselves and each other in an instant for absolutely no reason other that a simple slip of the tongue, a bump, a small action. Â I would rather have these things from animals, because they focus more on the well being of another, and aren’t that selfish. Â They take what they can get and make the best of it.
My parents don’t care if I hurt myself anymore. Â But if I do it enough, they say they’ll send me to inpatient or a hospital. Â They won’t. Â The counselor says I need to take responsibility for my place and effect on society. Â I told her I will only take responsibility for the things I actually do. Â I won’t take responsibility for my existence, because it’s not my fault I was born. Â Right now, I’m wishing that something horrid would happen to me, just so I don’t have to deal with incompetent people. Â Who are all around me. Â It’s called society.
I’m hoping that perhaps someone will pick a fight with me, or that someone will randomly stab me, or I’ll get shot, or hit my a vehicle. Â I just want something to happen so I can escape for at least a little while from my house, my school. my life but I don’t want to die. Â Because it would be pointless. Â I just want to be entirely and completely along for some time. Â In a single bed hospital room, enveloped in silence. Â But not in the psych ward.
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People do lie. There are maybe five people you’ll encounter in your life who are there but there will be a few. Keep waiting for them because they’re worth it.
yeah, my school councillor wasn’t the sharpest pencil in the box either…
“How can you respect someone, when they don’t give you any reason at all to respect them? Why trust someone, when all they’ve ever done is break their promises and betray you? Why love someone, when they aren’t deserving of it?”
The answer to your questions is faith. Because rationale and logic will get you very far, it will keep you sharp and smart and alive… but it won’t make you happy. And if they have faith in people, sometimes they let you down, but sometimes they suprise you. You remind me of me when I was a kid, thinking nothing could suprise me. I was wrong. You are too.
ahem ..
speaking for myself, I’d rather be overly logical, cynical & not happy than have faith when my experiences taught me people are way more likely to use you or surprise you in a bad way than have genuine concern for your well-being
fuck faith .. fuck hope .. fuck trying to be functional in a sick, twisted world
(excuse my language)
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out of all that, i heard more judgment and assumptions that you accuse all the people listed of doing combined … I guarantee you that one day you will be embarrassed by doubting your mothers love … you make her cry and you doubt? she must be quite the actress … I hope you have your epiphany before it’s too late … oh and nice false choice you give your dad … if he gets mad, he hates you, if he gets upset, he’s acting and if he’s indifferent, he doesn’t care … grow a pair and tell them what you want instead of making them guess because I can assure you, they are killing themselves inside and are paralyzed with fear and worry
of course you will dismiss my comments as the “incompetent society” … but know this … I thought as you did once … and thankfully learned that I was a selfish idiot prick … but luckily I had the opportunity to make sure my folks knew how much i appreciated everything they did or tried to do and that I love them more than anything.
but what do I know? You know everything, got it all figured …
dumb old dawg
@truthbtold it is not rational to always expect the worst from everyone, although I can see how it may SEEM rational if that has been the majority of yr experience. Faith is the tool we have been given to balance out existential thought. Is that not rational in itself? Why would we have the capacity to question if we don’t have the capacity to survive that questioning process? Where you place your faith is your own choice. You can choose science or religion or humanity but at some point you need faith because some things will never be explained. If u choose to have no faith that is your choice also but then you can’t blame anyone else for your unhappiness knowing that it was your own decision to give up on everything and everyone
“If u choose to have no faith that is your choice also but then you can’t blame anyone else for your unhappiness knowing that it was your own decision to give up on everything and everyone”
you have a good point .. I can’t blame people if I’m not willing to venture out of my cynical, pessimistic comfort zone and I won’t
with life it always comes down to making choices .. unfortunately, some have many more options than others
Ok so I didn’t say I knew everything. Just wanted to put that out there. And I know I’m likely wrong about some things, but honestly, for most of it, it’s probably true. I don’t ‘doubt’ my mother’s love. There isn’t any. If anything, she’s overly emotional, and easily takes offense at things whether they’re directed towards her or not. I also acknowledge that logic would likely be better, but since I pretty much fail at using logic, that’s kind of a moot point. I honestly don’t care about most things. Maybe I’ll care for a while, but not very long. People’s feelings however, are different. If they start crying, I want them to suck it up and go away. That’s likely because I grew up with my dad acting like crying made you weak and such. I know it’s not true most of the time, but seriously crying just pisses me off. I won’t get embarrassed either, because I plain don’t care. I do tell them what I want. Believe me, I do. But they don’t listen. Which I’m pretty sure is what I said earlier. By the way, by society, I mean people in general. I’m not saying that every single person is how I say. If that were true, I would have offed myself a long time ago. Or gotten a gun and killed shaz-loads of them. Also, and this is just a random thought moment that isn’t necessarily true for everyone, but I’m pretty sure that a lot of how we think about things, and how we feel, isn’t based off of rationalities. And NO, I DO NOT know everything OR have it all figured out. Righ now I can only see out of one eye because of my ‘experiences’. Have fun trying to understand what the hell I’m saying.
@emotionaless there is no right or wrong, everyone just shares opinions and it’s up to you to pick and choose what resonates with you. Umm… what happened to your eye? Or was it metaphorical?
@truthbtold why do you feel like you don’t have any options?
I got punched in the face. Some idiot decided to fight me. Such idiot was my dad. I therefore beat the hell out of him.