Not content.
Sadly this is how I feel. I'm not content. I'm not content with almost any aspect of my life. Okay sorry I am very content with how my relationship with my family is right now. It is amazing. One big humungo argument with my mom about a month ago, calmed things down with me and her. One final blow, hopefully, from the both of us. I see that she now respects me for who I am, and I now will let her see who I have become. So thats an exciting new happening for myself at home.
But...I'm not content with who I am and what I am doing with myself outside of my family. I am not content. I feel like I am doing all of the wrong things with my life. Ask me what I might think that I am doing wrong? I have no clue. I just know it doesnt feel right. What I do on the weekends, I dont feel like I should be doing. I am not content. I hate it. But what should I do? I have not a clue. I beleive my eyes were opened to my discontent with our lovely conversation with Rob at Imo's that Sunday night. I finally had to confront myself that night with many tears and memories, and that night after a long talk with Tim, I realized I am not content. I am not. Ahhh I hate it and wish that I could just stop all of these crazy feelings I have inside, and just scream. But at last, I am still the same me week after week, just wishing something will just pop right out and tell me what I am doing thats wrong. I am not content and I do not like it. The really bad thing is that about a year ago this time, I felt like nothing in the world could go wrong. I felt like I was on top of the world looking down. I felt I had made life long friendships and was so content with my little outings to josephville. Oh it was so exciting. A life with wonderful friends. I loved it. And better yet, I was happy with my life. But here, a year later, I find myself in a very different position. With many of the same great friends ( and a few new ones :) ) But yet I have lost some. I have lost some people who were a great part of me last year. They were my life. And a year later, they are not. So maybe I suppose I am still healing in some sort of way. But someone tell me how someone who was a MAJOR part of your life for so long, could all of a sudden with the snap of a finger be gone. No longer in your life, and snatched right out from underneath you? Eh, I am still searching for the answer. It sucks. Eh I cant explain it, puh. heh. But I find a void in my life, that I for a long time have been reluctant to fill. I dont know quite yet how to fill it, but for that matter if I even want to take that risk. I want to be completely happy. I want to feel the joy of friends, and happiness. But right now I do not.
Now dont get me wrong, I am not saying that I hate all of my friends. Because thats so not true I love them all, and I love being with them. I just dont know whats going on right now with me. And Tim makes me so happy :), and so do the rest of my friends. He knows that. And I thank him for always sticking by my side through all of this craziness. But I dont know. I need something really really really bad.
-Lindsay
P.S. So please everyone this is how I have been feeling for sometime now. I truly dont mean to hurt anyone by this post. But it's me. And I am sorry if I have pulled away from anyone, not talking as much or so forth. But thats what I feel I have to do. I know everyone has major issues going on in their lives right now, and I want to be there for you guys. But I find myself wrapped up in an issue of my own. MYSELF. I have become an issue. Great. HEH. So I am just apologizing now if sometimes I look dazed and confused and upset at school: this is the reason.
2 Comments:
At 10:22 PM, Natalie, Lindsay, Sarah, Leslie said…
wow lindsay. as joe said, i hope its understood by now that if u ever need to talk, im here.
i honestly am just in a 'wow' state of mind right now. i can completely relate to everything you're feeling, though. look at the reason we started this blog in the first place...and all three of our journey's over the past 4 months.
and this: But someone tell me how someone who was a MAJOR part of your life for so long, could all of a sudden with the snap of a finger be gone. No longer in your life, and snatched right out from underneath you?
wow. you couldnt have said it any better. it hurts like hell. and there's absolutely nothing that can be done about it. it just...SUCKS. and i cant think of any better way to describe it. and as for the feeling 'uncontent'- that is probably one of the worst emotions in the world. when you're sad, you're sad. and you most likely know what it is that is making you feel that way. but feeling not content, well you cant really pinpoint a specific moment that triggered that. it just...happens. and you cant explain it. you just know its there. and i hope to God that you talk to me about it if you ever need to. i love you lindsay walsh. know that, ok? and im always 100% there for you if you ever need anything at all, alright! i heart you very much blog-buddy!!!
and i heard this on charmed yesterday...and it kind of fits...
--i would rather live in a good that's sometimes bad than a bad that's never good.--
which i guess is kind of a 'well duh' statement...but i think i like it.
-sarah
At 6:27 PM, Anonymous said…
Lindsay---
i suppose you realize now that i've been reading this blog all along. i find it extremely interesting and i love reading it--
but thats completely beside the point.
first, i should apologize for making you feel discontented. in case you didn't know, i have a horrendous habit of saying what i think and disregarding the emotions of others. if that was in fact the case, im truly sorry.
you know, i completely agree with you. although i wasn't there for the majority of the things that happened, i can still identify. as for that void--well, to a point, lindsay, i think we all have voids in our lives, whether they are friendship or money or love or passion et cetera. the trouble then becomes filling the void and i suppose thats the most difficult thing to do. people spend their entire lives trying to fill voids that were left by things once there. my advice to you would be to appreciate whatever it was you once had, search for it in your own life, and if its not there, then accept it and try to move on. otherwise, you'll be spending your time living in the past and from experience, i can tell you thats not a place you want to be.
i suppose a rant is coming now and i really dont want to say it but i didn't say it person so perhaps this is the proper place to do so:
for me, its extremely frustrating when i try to build a friendship with people and they are completely apathetic. i can understand that im not the easiest person to get along with at times. ill be the first to admit that! but when i try to do something, and everyone is always busy or in a closely-knit group, how am i supposed to feel? ACCEPTED? no, i feel excluded. and to be honest, exclusion is generally not a feeling that i experience often. i really get along with everyone that i meet, so when i feel excluded, i begin to wonder: is there something wrong with me? am i a bad person? its odd because it was never a problem for me before. i suppose im trying to fill a void that my other friends left behind. and you have no idea (well maybe you do) how frustrating it is when you try to replace something that was never really there the exclusion has made me wonder if i was ever really friends with you (as a collective group) the fact that that thought even crossed my mind is unsettling
anyway thats all i have to say about that
rob goldfarb
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