I have a friend… we are developing a relationship. I don’t know where it will lead us, but wherever it does I will be very happy.
We decided a good way to develop an understanding of each other is to ask each other questions (I have done it before in the past and it really does work.). Well, I first sent him an internet survey. I filled out mine first and sent it back before he did though. One of the questions was, “Do you believe in love?” and my response was, “More than anything.”
He questioned me about it… he said it was really odd that I said that. And I know exactly why. My “relationship history” has not been the greatest, and I think he is surprised that I still strongly believe in love like I do.
I believe love is an unwavering feeling. It never turns around and walks away and never gives up. When I find love in a person that won’t turn their back to me, won’t walk away, and never make me cry… then that is the day I will decide I want to get married.
But for now all I have known is people who said they loved me and never meant it… when I loved them with all my heart. I never turned my back to them until now… I waited with open arms to comfort them and for them to comfort me. But now is the time that I not only turned my back to him, I turned it to everyone.
I try to open up again… especially with this guy I am getting close to.
But everyday not only gets worse as the year treads along, it makes me hate myself even more. I wonder… why I cannot do anything right. Why everyone hates me so… why I can’t be good enough for anything or anyone… the questions are endless.
I sit in my lonely little corner… as the people who actually care about me tap my shoulder only to see if I’m still alive.
It’s getting harder and harder to breathe.
~Shadow