Hey there, long time no see, really.
I've been looking for you, and I know you've been looking for me too. It feels so strange to find you again after such a while, knowing you're there, hearing you knock as I'm stuck on the other side of the glass, looking into your eyes, incapable to go through, either me or you.
Writing here and there brings us closer, but we both know the right conditions are necessary and for much too long they've not been there. Today, however, it may be the day again, when that glass breaks and you can come back into my arms.
Or maybe not, we shall see what is there to come. No time pressure, not much at least, many emotions and confusions though, I hope the gentle music won't take me away from this. I want to hold you, be fully in here with you, flood me with your presence, I will take you however you're weathered.
I see the ocean raging, I hear raindrops, but there is some peaceful sun somewhere. I feel a frustration, like an ever-growing mountain that just won't let me finish the race. Tight hips, strange pains and a flu that's too strong, the blood.
When did I stop being able to face the silence? When did screens and sounds become the rulers of my life? I tried so hard when I was younger, I told my parents I didn't want a TV in my room anymore, it was the 90s, the beginning of the end of brain usage. When you'd watch a film and think about it afterwards, there was space to be. The rest was also there, sexy women on billboards, prank radio shows, scammers, "don't talk to strangers on the internet", but it was possible to stay away and continue to be part of society, unlike now.
Now everything shines and everything sells and grows and moves and faster, faster!
The memories of my mother's office where I wrote endless secret stories while waiting for her day to be done so we could go home. I was scared of being alone. How old was I then? It all felt so much easier but even then I had an impossibly heaviness inside me, writing about death, hate and passion, I wasn't older than 12.
The TV was removed even earlier, I didn't want to be a slave, but here I am and here are we all. Everything sells, shines, grows, more portable, lighter, hardcore and faster, faster! I want no second without stimuli!
I've been trying for years to escape, but as much destruction as it brings, it also delivers hope. I could be discovered on YouTube too, or I can start my own business selling and shining and growing and faster, faster.
There was a little creature in here once, she drew wholeheartedly, but she wasn't the best. She could sing and play like angels, but her voice got too loud. She wrote stories and poems about things she hadn't ever known before and she was visited by all sorts of big men and women, to get her advice. A surprising little creature whose light was too bright for her own good. She was shut down, sometimes by others, sometimes by the world, mostly by herself.
The shy little creature with a mother so eager that instead of supporting her gentle child, she scared her, without meaning to, with prospects of grandiose books and full stadiums of listeners. A creature so gentle, so soft and young feels only fear when those thoughts come by.
Over 20 years have passed since then, the creature is as much of an amateur as she was back then. She didn't know what she needed, hence didn't know to ask and now she cannot provide it for herself. This world is too fast and overwhelming.
They say that you have to fight for your dreams, with sweat, blood and tears. But how do you fight if you don't know the dream? Why fight 20 little battles when none is sure to be your own? How can you find the mountain that's for you to climb?
Today I decided to watch an old Ghibli film I'd never seen before, "Whispers of the Heart". The main character was reading 20 books before the beginning of the next semester and coincidentally a boy has lent the same library books, a bit of fate and a bit of work bring their lives together. He wants to be a violin maker, she envies him, for she doesn't know what she wants to be. Soon she figures it out and she knows the paths to take.
I envy her, for within a school semester she figures out her dream. It's been over 20 years of being a master of none, knowing myself none.
I've done choir, clay, drawing, bookbinding, woodwork, piano, crochet, writing, knitting, designing furniture, architectural pieces, calendars, guitar, sewing clothes, tarot, ukulele, psychology, neuroscience, meditation, yoga, candle-making, declutter, styling, hair-dressing, interior design, organizational secretary... And here I am, still. As lost as I was when I was a child, a little shy creature who knew too much pain for her own good and was too concerned with the strangeness and pain of the world around her to understand herself. I am still the same. Good enough at too many things, too good enough for my own good.
So I wasted more hours on the phone, social media, and useless games. I feel so paralysed each time I think of what to do next. Free days become curses of insecurities, failures and restlessness, cause there is so much I would like to do but somehow, I can't get myself to do those things. I am still stuck in the freeze response.
Today between the period and the flu, there may have been more to it than I thought.
I feel so lonely today, I miss him, but not really him, the idea of him. That person I wished him to be, my mistake for not seeing who he really was, as well as not showing who I really am. At least I know none of it was on purpose, I can forgive myself for the mistakes I've made.
If he had asked me, invited me, offered me, I would have said yes without a doubt, but I know now that it's good that never happened, for it never felt completely right despite how perfectly natural and smooth it felt too. I always felt an obstacle in our path, whatever it is, it's still there now and us moving closer together wouldn't have dissolved it.
I wish it had been you, I miss you.