Okay. Another one of these posts.
Okay so I feel like shit right now this second. Right this second I feel like crying. So that is why I am going to tell you all about why I feel this way so that I donât feel this way anymore. Every time I have wrote one of these posts I have felt much better by the end of it.Â
I feel this way because I feel sad. I feel sad because I feel like I have no worth. I feel like I have no worth because I am not chosen. I feel like a I have no worth because I am not a first priority. I feel like I have no worth because there is no âlongingâ to spend time with me. This makes me feel like I have no worth.Â
Now the problem here is that all of these reasons as to why I have no worth depend on other people. I cannot give any worth to myself. I am incapable of doing this. I have never done this before and I do not know how to value myself objectively. When I try to look at myself and add value to my self worth all I can see are the failures, mistakes and shortcomings; because of this I can find no good thing about myself.Â
I do not know how to fix this. I do not know how to like myself like this. I do not know how to change the way I feel about myself. I cannot look at myself and say âYou did a good job here!â without it sounding narcissist to me.Â
All of these feeling that I have towards myself are coupled with the fact that I am dating someone who is not a person to throw compliments around haphazardly like some people might. So trying to look for some sort of gratification or release with regards to my self esteem from my partner is like trying to get blood from a stone, as well as pointless and counter-productive because I feel worse after having tried.Â
For the case in point I will give this example. I will state the facts and then I will give my opinion. Please distinguish the facts from my opinion so that you can make your own informed position on this.Â
I was looking forward to seeing my boyfriend tomorrow as I hadnât seen him in two weeks. Now keep in mind we live together in a house with 4 other people and we all have our separate rooms. He has had a large work load the past couple of weeks (maybe months) and I have felt very disconnected from him. We both start back to college this Monday and his workload (as well as mine, especially this semester) will be very heavy again, I give this fact because from my point of view I was hoping we could have these two days before college starts again to hang out, watch tv and get close. I texted my boyfriend to ask him if he was coming to the house tomorrow (I did this only to make sure, I had no idea he would say no) and he said âNopeâ. I replied with âOh? When you thinking of coming up?â and he replied with âthe week endâ. I at this point didnât want to start anything so I just replied with âcool beansâ. There were other measures sent back forth afterwards about Michael Caine and his dislike of communism that he got from fighting in the Vietnam war. At this point I was upset and I wanted to say something about it because I thought if I said something he would respond with âListen I didnât know you were looking forward to seeing me of course Iâll head to the house tomorrowâ. This of course is unbelievable wishful thinking on my part. I texted him and said âIâm boredâ and âIâm melancholyâ. He replied with âwatch somethingâ. I wanted to say more so I said âBored and melancholy were the wrong words I should have said a little put downâ. He responded with âwhy?â. I then said âWell Iâm gonna be honest with you here I was kinda waiting for Friday to come around because I wanted to see you but itâs only another day or two to wait, Iâm just a little downâ. He then responded with âI seeâ. I personally thought he would say more so I waited for 4 minutes (the longest four minutes of my life) and when he responded with nothing I sent him another text saying  âItâs only another two days at most, Itâs just that you had said (provisionally) that youâd be back the Friday before we went back so I had this Friday all built up, Iâll have a wank Iâll be fineâ. That last part was to convey a bit of light humor and to give him the impression that Iâm okay (not knowing what would be said next). He then responded to this with âOkey Dokeyâ. At this point I physically felt myself getting angry. My heart rate shot up and I was ready to know why he felt that Okey Dokey was sufficient. I tried to Facetime call him and he didnât respond. I text him saying âFacetime?â and he said âWatching a movieâ. I said âWhen youâre finished?â and he said âItâs not long startedâ; and then I ended the conversation in what I thought was a clever way that would tell him Fuck You by saying âOkey Dokeyâ. It has only dawned on me now that he is so unaware and oblivious to how I felt that what happened amounted to me just being angry and upset in a room by myself.Â
There are many problems with what happened here. The lack of communication on my part was to blame. I should have said right from the very beginning that I was a little annoyed by him not being here tomorrow. I should have let him know during the week that I was looking forward to seeing him. I will not go into what he should have done save for this point. He has created an environment where I feel embarrassed to show affection for him in ways that I normally wouldnât have felt embarrassed about. I would no longer send him messages that say âI miss youâ as I would have done in the first 6 months of us going out and no longer do 2 years in because he would say âWhy?â. And then I would have to explain to him why I missed him which to me is weird. I will leave it at this one point for him, because I feel like I am in no way able to judge what someone should have done save for myself. This one point for him is something that has bothered me before though so this is why I have said it here to get it off my chest.Â
(For your own references I have put the exact quotes I have used into Bold to give an idea of the conversation flow. From âNopeâ to âOkey Dokeyâ I did not leave a single message out just to once again show the flow of the conversation.)
I honest to god do feel a little better after having said this. And it is something I will talk to him about when he does get back to the house. I shouldnât feel embarrassed about how I feel and I shouldnât hold anything back.Â
Tumblr, thank you for listening.Â