I’m not exactly having a rough time, so much as a complicated time. Nothing has changed between Spencer and I, we talk. He apologizes. I check up on him. I want to feed him, but I know I can’t. I just want to help. I just want what’s best for him. I just want him to allow himself to experience growth.
He’s got a girlfriend and that’s good. It’s someone to take care of him. I just wish he would open up to her, the way he opens up to me. Maybe they’d have a better shot at a happy ending. The one we never got to have. The one I’m fighting day in, and day out to not think about.
In other news, Norman has been keeping me company. Much like he always has, and it’s like we never broke up. He’s attentive, kind and gentler than he looks. He’s good for making me laugh, good for making me feel special. Good for helping me forget about how the walls close in. We’re good at being friends, better than we were at being lovers. At least, I think so.
Regardless of all this interest of vast neutrality in my own life, therapy this morning didn’t go too well.
My real doctor often sets me up with doctors for when I’m touring. They are the same whenever I visit, but I never am.
I have changed. My life has changed. My world has changed. My phobias have changed.
They suggest pills and a different career, I suggest they let me keep some control over, well, me. I was late to the venue today because I kept thinking the elevators were going to crush me and couldn’t get out of the hospital, once I got in it... nothing to out of the ordinary for me, though.
I’m trying not to drown in my regrets, trying to enjoy sets and make friends, but I really rather just be alone. I don’t think that requires medication. I think it requires a hotel room, and much earned relaxation. Tour is no joke when it comes to being worn out. Tonight I’ll burn some sage and listen to white noise for a few hours.
Anyway, nothing much has changed I guess.