Sitting here listening to "Petals" by Mariah Carey and I've just had the most amazing revelation. It's been a very long time since I have actually thought about what I do and don't want in this life. I've become very much the type of person that just coasts through life day to day without giving a lot of thought to yesterday or tomorrow. I'm very much a "in the now" person. But I'm starting to realize that does not work for a lot of people. Most people want to at least have a grip on where they going, how they feel... and how I feel in return. So I'm going to be daring and try to answer some part of that for you. And I'm sure some of you won't like it. I'm sure you'll be impatient, frustrated, feel betrayed and all kinds of other things... but this is just reality. Please understand that this is just how I feel right NOW. I can't tell you how I am going to feel tomorrow a year from tonight. But this is just where I am today.
- I don't ever want to feel trapped. Because of a bad experience I had in a previous relationship, for me being "trapped" current means being in a place where I can't escape. Waking up every day to chaos and confusion and pain and heartache. Forced to endure a person and a place that was draining the life out of me. I'm not ready to play house again. I'm not ready to do the "married" thing. Not today, not tomorrow, and not for a while. I still want it...someday. But I'm still healing right now so it's not something I even have on my radar. I love my roommates. I like being able to come and go as I please. Being able to feel free in my own home. I want it to stay that way.... for now.
- I want to go bowling and have drinks with my friends. I want to laugh and be silly and flirt and dance and then go home at the end of the night to my own apartment and sleep in my own bed.
- I don't want anyone asking me where I am or where I am going. That makes me feel controlled and trapped (see #1).
- I don't want to hear the words "Long Term Relationship". I don't even want to think that far ahead. And not because I don't want it... it time, but because my brain is still trying to get around the fact that the last time I tried to play house and do the LTR thing - it blew up in my face. "Cause he's taken you for granted, and everything you had got destroyed". I'll get back there someday. But I'm not there right now.
- I want to cuddle and snuggle and watch tv and laugh and be silly.
- I want to be able to have my alone time without making anyone feel abandoned or insecure.
- I just to take it one day at a time, living in the moments that we have now.. without having to contemplate tomorrow.
- I want time and space to heal. Somethings still hurt.
To be continued...
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