Saturday, June 20, 2009

from me to me

as cliche as it might sound, please know that it not you, or you or any of you as a matter of fact. its just me. me being the emo-worrying closet pessimist i am as default. so if i've written something wrong or inappropriate in your opinion, i do apologize first. please know that without all of you, you, you and everyone else, i would be worse of then i'm now, and that i'm just trying to clear my thought here.

"There’re times you tell yourself thing’s are going to be ok...just like what you told those that you care when they were in need. But sometimes, that still lives you unsatisfied, and though you’re not particularly sad nor depress, happiness still seem far beyond your reach. You just sort of feel alone and unimportant. It’s like though there are people you care deeply for, there seem to be no one who deeply cares for you.

Each day goes by like yesterday where the only solace you could seek is the short few hours after work where alone you run pass strangers one after another. Not really knowing what you’re running from or running towards. Trying to convince yourself that you’re just trying to be like any other self-respecting, responsible human being trying to stay healthy and fit. But in truth, it’s an excuse to stay out as long as late as possible cause the so call ‘home’ you return every night is no where close to the calming sanctuary a home should be. And its also the time when your head’s so caught up telling your lung to struggle for each breath that’s it distract you from the haunting emotions that plague you during the rest of the days. It the only way that you can get yourself so exhausted that your mind stop wondering of think bout all the unhappy things during you ride bus ride back home, and exhausted enough to knock you out cold when you finally lay down in bed giving you no chance to ponder bout what’s sucks in your life.

then there’re those other time, where you’re just so sapped of energy to running from wallowing in your desolation that you just wonder aimlessly along the banks of the river for somehow and not knowing why you what and why you’re there. And though seeing all those happy people hanging out together in couples or in group all along the river bank leaves you longing for what seems to be missing, your still find it somewhat comforting to be there. Maybe it because the joy of these people unconsciously rubs itself onto you, or maybe it just feels better to see other happy. If not, it might just be that you’re a sadist and that you just subconsciously want to be close those things that you seem to not have thus giving you even more reason to lament over how sad your life is. Maybe, just maybe it because being near that watery body that you’ve come to be more at ease in, where you had as many happy memories in than out somehow makes your disguising life a little more tolerable

Once in a while, something good actually happens living you a ray of light that you hold onto to get you through the dreadful thoughts and seemingly meaningless and unfulfilling work. It becomes like a lifeline that you desperately hold onto so as not to drown in the self-bashing, gloomy and disappointing whirlpool that you has willingly dive head first into. But more then ever you find that when that day-you-have-looked-forwards-to-so –veryvery-much arrives, it doesn’t live you any better than you were before. Although its all smiles and cheery for a while, for which you’re more than grateful for and the company relieves you of the burden that has weigh you down during the week for that fleeting moment, but nonetheless when those brief few hours has past, once again, you sucked back into the murky depths. At times, even deeper than you were before cause you start remember those carefree time we had days and months before and question yourself why are we not longer like we were before, while others seem to still remain so. This question, which after countless attempts to answer, still leaves you in despair, and frustrated. Is this all part of growing up, if so you rather not and be like Peter in Neverneverland.

Maybe it time for you to wake up from the fairytale land that you’ve hoped for, where those that matters to you would be always there and that if you give willingly, you’ll receive in return when the time come. Shake yourself out of this suicide slumber and know that ultimately it’s you that matters to yourself. If you’re unwilling to help yourself and continue to withdraw into that life-killing cesspool of jealously, discontentment, misery and anger you’ve been swimming in, no one else can help you even if try really want to. WAKE UP PEK!"

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

hello, pekpek. i hope you don't think this is in anyway me trying to preach, but it makes me very sad reading your post. i just want to let you know that we're not close enough to talk about such and maybe i don't know you well enough, but i want to say all these because i like you very much as a friend.

someone told me before that jealousy, discontentment, misery, anger despair frustration loneliness...all these you're feeling, it may not be a bad thing because this is real life you're feeling...maybe it's much better than feeling nothing at all. and if you can get past all this crap, which i have hundred percent faith that you will, i betcha contentment will be all around you and you'll find it well deserving.

i think everyone is very much rooting for you, that you will try as hard as you can to focus on getting everything together..i know you won't bear to disappoint those around you because you will try very hard to (in your own words) WAKE UP. i really really really hope that you will get past all these...whatever they are, however long it'll take, however difficult it is. 你可以的 please. take careee.

Anonymous said...

And in the darkest moment, just the moment where you want to slip into a restful sleep, you start thinking about all the bad things that had happened to you, or that are going to happen.

You slip past yourself, hanging onto memories that you were once in, happily. Memories that had light up your heart, pricked your hair straight and fired your muscles crazy. Hanging on dearly, hoping you'll find the strength in you to hold back those tears that have followed you throughout the day. Walking through the corridors and pathways of the things you had needed to do, you had been merely being there. Being there, but mentally traveling withing your own mind of wanderings.

You avoid the common paths, in fear of bumping into someone who might ask how you are. You're surrounded by so many people, yet you feel alone.

You dig your fingers into the soft duck feathered pillows, burying your head into the darkness that the night has brought. Till the dawn tears the night apart, you're stuck-here, alone.

But alone isn't bad, alone is to find the deepest shadows within youself and living through them. Alone is finding your greatest flaws and overcoming them. Alone is finding yourself so that when you're finally in the company of others, you know who you stand for.