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October 16th, 2006 Leave a comment

    Yah, back again. I even learned some new things, thus, I’m all the wiser now. You have to know that I’m not exactly the kinda guy who’s deep into fam­ily things. I appre­ci­ate my fam­ily and with some mem­bers – besides my par­ents and my sis­ter – I do have some kind of spe­cial bond. And that’s it. A huge part of my fam­ily I don’t know and nei­ther do I want to get them to know. You see, every­thing was quite fine until my grandpa died and every­body went crazy.

    He left a con­sid­er­able amount of money as well as a nice flat. And that’s exactly where the whole story became damn ugly. One of his daugh­ters (there are three daugh­ters and one son – my mother being the eldest of all the sib­lings) who hap­pens to be my god­fa­ther and her hus­band became greedy and it ended in much anger on all sides. I won’t go into details but suf­fice to say that it’s been a hard time for my fam­ily (on my mother’s side only). How­ever, from that moment on noth­ing has ever been the same.

    I don’t know my aunts any more. They have changed way too much. Or is it me? I don’t know but I don’t believe the lat­ter. Of course I’ve changed. Change is the only con­stant in life. I don’t seem to know them at all. My uncle’s sum­mon­ing this week­end only proved that I can still talk to them but most are strangers to me. Actu­ally, I’m glad I moved from home to a city far away. They’re totally immersed in their small coun­try life and they don’t care about other things all that much. Sure, they talk about pol­i­tics and other mat­ters of pub­lic inter­est but in the end noth­ing mat­ters greatly to them. They fol­low the cus­toms as usual and they pre­tend to be good peo­ple by doing what the pub­lic expects them to do.

    I don’t fit into such a life. I ques­tion and crit­i­cize, I’m skep­tic and I don’t take every­thing as it is. I’m not sat­is­fied with an exis­tence like that. Life has so many things in store for every­one of us I just can’t be sat­is­fied liv­ing in a small vil­lage pre­tend­ing there’s no other place I’d like to know. I won’t give up my dreams for noth­ing. I’ve got huge expec­ta­tions I’d like to live up to. I think, that atti­tude has widened the gap that has always existed between me and the rest of them.

    I’m alone in this world. I don’t pre­tend. I accept things they don’t. They know most things I do but they pre­fer to deceive them­selves. Every crea­ture on this earth dies alone. I know because I’ve seen it hap­pen many times and I almost expe­ri­enced it myself. I’d rather face real­ity than make a farce of it for the sake of feel­ing bet­ter this way. It doesn’t hurt any­more like it did a decade ago. I’ve grown used to this soli­tude. Ah, enough of that. Every mus­cle hurts and I don’t wanna write anymore.

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    1. Liq­uid Skin
      October 21st, 2006 at 01:40 | #1

      Hi there,

      I really appre­ci­ate the mes­sage you left me. You seem to have a real­is­tic prag­matic approach to things, which i think i lack some­times. I’m always blinded by my own emo­tions. Its nice hear­ing a level headed point of view. Thats a great harper song you quoted. I use to lis­ten to it when I needed strength and con­fi­dence in the deci­sions Ive made.

      I seem to be com­ing across this theme of lone­li­ness a lot at the moment. I have been feel­ing alone lately and my friend recently con­fided to me her sim­i­lar feel­ings, you seem to be going through the same thing? I always won­der if it is self imposed? Is there a cer­tain per­son­al­ity that is pre­dis­posed to feel­ing that way? I often don’t mind it, in fact I pre­fer it con­sid­er­ing the com­pany of most peo­ple… its just a worry when you feel you have no one to turn to when you need it.

      Take care.

    2. JC
      October 21st, 2006 at 13:13 | #2

      You’re wel­come. :)
      And yes, I try to keep things as sim­ple as pos­si­ble. I always have in mind that pas­sion rules rea­son. It’s a con­stant reminder help­ing me to make decisions.

      You’re right, to a cer­tain degree this lone­li­ness is self-imposed. Some cir­cum­stances lead to cer­tain trails of thought. I always felt alone because from childhood’s early hour on I knew I was dif­fer­ent. In a way, I was more inter­ested in how stuff works, more inter­ested in how the world works, than any other of my child­hood friends or my fam­ily. I am who I am and I can be no more and no less.
      How­ever, there are dif­fer­ent shades of lone­li­ness and one should never for­get that there is a bal­ance in life. I think I’m pretty well bal­anced and so this lone­li­ness doesn’t really mat­ter to me. I can look at it with­out self-pity and that’s what is most important.

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