I had to stop listening to sweetener while I religiously do my masterpiece of a reviewer just so I could write about you
and it literally has been years since I’ve written about you. Maybe it’s because we haven’t been in touch for a long time; in touch in a sense that we would always have--and make--time for each other that no one would need to call anyone up because we’d always show up uninvited (the good kind, as we know it). Now I felt the need to make you my point person again because, even if everything isn’t like it was before, some things didn’t change. And I’m really not in the mood to comfort you by saying “this isn’t about you” when I subtweet my emotions again.
This has been the fastest I’ve typed whilst lashing out my feelings, after the longest time (read: probably around 2016). There have been times I wanted to be the same internally-angry-at-everyone Yana that I was just so I could be inspired to write SOMETHING down.
I’m not angry at you, but I have to say that spending the entire day with you was tiring. Not only did you take advantage of my would-be (and frequent) episodes and tried to talk me out of buying a stick of cigarette, but I am now enjoying another one for you. Even the one good deed you thought was “good,” I know it was only so that you could rub it in my face and dive onto the pity pool you have working on for me. I’m not even talking about the unsolicited advice you gave as a parting present--but that one pulled a lot of strings. That was the last straw.
“The last straw.” Of course it was the last straw, I literally called it a day--a day of you having someone push around and be an asshole to. Some time soon I hope that you genuinely realize that things aren’t the same with us anymore. Your “tough love” is only demons I would take with me to bed if I even fall asleep tonight. It would be another familiar feeling from when I was in a slump, underrated that word as it is. It’s me constanly thinking of verbal comebacks and being alert everytime you’d open your mouth so I could shield myself. But I don’t know, I guess the solution I have is to stop opening the door at the back of my mind and giving you free passes. I know you’d just be all over the place.
No, you weren’t right. There may have been a time when you were, but I know we’re way past that. And how would you know it? You’d only take a little portion of the whole thing, play God and tell me “you’re not gonna last,” then be on your way. Gone are they days when we’d analyze the trouble and figure a way out. Now, it’s only about your self-satisfaction of being able to be the person I share these things with. You’ve forgotten how unenough it is. I figured you of all people would understand, and wow, how so unfulfilling it is to have figured out wrong.














