I abandoned you again. I said I was back, for good this time, but I have this unhealthy repulsion towards sharing. I'm sorry, Livejournal, let's be friends again. Forgive me?
I'm terrified of people. There are so few people who I really feel I can be myself around... it takes so long to get to that point. I'm afraid that so few people know the real me, how do I know that new people will accept him? Do I just throw it out there? I feel like I have to explain myself first. Oh, don't worry, that's just my weird sense of humour. I'm not actually some deranged pervert. The biggest problem with this is that, while I try to be someone else, I have no idea who else to be, so I end up being nobody. I busy myself with my phone so that nobody notices I'm just sitting there imagining what they're thinking of me. Assuming that they ARE thinking about me.
"You'd care a lot less about what people thought of you, if you realized how rarely they did."
Maybe I am just a pervert. That would be a lot easier. An asshole, and a pervert. Life seems easier when you don't give a shit about anybody but yourself. And your penis.
Except that I don't have that in me. That instinct never developed, like so many others. I could perhaps blame my father, but I know he did the best he could with what he had. Can you blame people for something that's not their fault? Therapists will tell you that you can, but something seems so wrong about it. Man up, boy, take the blame yourself!
And yet, somehow, I'm so incredibly self absorbed. I am so narcissistic that I have trouble believing that other people are going through the same things I am. I just assume that everybody's got it all figured out, and I'm the only one who's grasping to learn as I go along. Like there was some big book on how to be alive, and I'm the only one who didn't get a copy. And even though I know it's ridiculous, I can't shake it. Like the world is some big movie, and I'm the protagonist. Nothing happens while I'm not around, and if it does, it's only so that it can effect me later on.
How come wikipedia won't tell me how to be an adult?
Women have this great ability to pose open questions, and be comforted by them. Just the idea of airing your grievance is enough. Men, however, need to solve. This is not universally true, of course, but sexual generalizations are some of the easiest to make. The fact is, I'm not satisfied just knowing the question. It's why men and women console differently. You're just supposed to listen, be a part of the sharing process, and then console. I don't know, there there, it'll all be all right. You're not supposed to give an answer. Because it's not the right answer. Or maybe it is A right answer, but it's not THE right answer. I don't think there is a right answer. Actually, I'm sure that there isn't, and that doesn't sit well with me.
It's why I deal with math so well. There is an answer. Or perhaps there's several answers, or even an infinite number of answers, but using proven theories I can tell you EXACTLY what those answers are.
So, what's the equation for growing up?

