redxorxblue: ya know, if you acted like you cared, id probably listen to you more
and then i sat there for 5 minutes trying to proces that comment.
see, in my head, it's rather apparent that i care about him, a lot. so i get scared, and try not to show it. although i usually suck at that covering up feelings thing, as my mom said i'm 'transparent'.
maybe i don't show it...... with the way i act, and the things i do
so used to trying not to show that i care. thinking that i shouldn't.
letting go; it isn't about giving things up, is it? it's about letting go of your preconceived thoughts and assumptions. it's about letting go of thoughts, and living.
"It's just that sometimes people use thought to not participate in life."
(somedays i don't know why i talk, because i know that i'm just going to disagree with myself the next day. i swear, i still hate the book)
reading that line made me stop. stop moving, stop reading, stop thinking. it's so true. here i was thinking that thinking made me alive, then this book makes me wonder if maybe it's killing me. i over analyze life, i'll admit it. never really stopped to wonder why i do it. no, that's not true. all too many times i have thought about why i analyze everything, why i keep getting lost in my thoughts. it's one of those thoughts that you don't formulate in your mind, it just sits there, oozing through the rest of your thoughts. you feel it's presence, and it makes you wince, but you won't allow yourself to let it form into a real thought. because maybe if you don't let it form, it will dissapear as quickly as it came. maybe you can kill it before it can hurt you by not thinking it, just let it lie. it doesn't work that way. unformed thoughts, they don't go away, they stay there, tainting the rest of your thoughts untill every thought brings it back.
i guess i've been thinking about this concept for awhile. letting myself go. let my thoughts go, out of my head. i thought writing would do it. as freeing as writing is, it's not all i need anymore. i need to accept every part of me. not deal with my flaws, or even overcome them. accept them for what they are, a part of me. i shouldn't be embarassed to show them. i need to live. i'm starting, i'm so much better off already than i was a year ago, i can do better.
i was so wrong. ahh i did care. i really did, i cared about so much. it's not about not caring, it's about not being bothered by your caring. oh how i suck at explaining things. i think i get it now though.
thanks mat, really.