am i too late to be...?
a strange house this house is. i remember looking at the fridge and recognizing only half of the contents, because who even eats those sweets? mom was diagnosed with diabetes a few years ago, so it shouldn’t be mom. it shouldn’t be anyone in this house, because why? why would anyone have that much sweets in the fridge, where my mom, who has diabetes, can easily see them when she opens the fridge to find her insulin? funny thing is i noticed there are more and more sweet snacks in this house. my mom was not one who loves sugar (she barely adds sugar to her tea!) and yet there she is...
i fear that i am a little to late to ever... love my mom? love my family the ways people are supposed to...? even here, when i’m home, i dont really pay any attention to her. im so immersed in my own sadness... in my own fear, even though mom and i agree that dad takes out his fear onto us and that’s a shitty thing to do.
i’ve only (only?) been away from this house for four years, yet i feel so missed out on many things. tuning in would do me a favour to ease this strangeness i feel in this house that i spent most of my life in. but... so many buts come to mind, and none of them are strong enough. it is no excuse to not check up on my family, but... i continue to do so. i’m clouded with the feeling that i will never be able to tune in with anything, not with my family, not with college, not with my work... i will always be too late to reconcile with anything.
i cried so many times already, this might actually be the most emotional trip to home yet. maybe second to the trip i took in late 2017, but the statement holds. Cimut, the cat that i didn’t instantly love but eventually did, is getting old. he has a laceration on his neck. his neck! i fear that he would die... i fear that he would be ripped apart when he’s out with other cats. i cried, but the crying stop when my dad came back. he joked about Cimut’s wound,













