11-1-22
Sometimes I really don't know what I am feeling anymore and it's really hard.
I just feel confused and tired-- so tired.
I keep wishing I can freeze everything right at the moment I am in, so I can rest within an unmoveable nook of time. Just a small fragment of time is all I am asking for. Just for the opportunity to not have to continue going and going and going, until I am so numb to everything. But of course, the most unforgiving and cruel thing about living is time. No matter what we do, time is still there creeping up behind us-- taking away everything from us, until there is nothing else.
I just feel like lately everything is falling apart, caving in on me, wearing me down, and crushing me. I can't breathe or escape and I have no idea how to make things better or where to even start the process. I feel like I have given so much of myself away so carelessly that I now have no idea who I am and it hurts.
It hurts to not know why I am here or what I am supposed to be doing to make myself happy in this short life. I feel like I have just been following the ideals of others to make everyone else around me happy. I gave up dreams and aspirations and passions and time that I will never be able to reclaim. I have given my whole life to make others happy and all it did for me, was make me miserable. I feel empty and I don't know how to fix it. It hurts even more when I think about all the memories that I have blocked out and all the time I have erased from my mind simply because I needed some way to cope. I think I was just forced to grow up too fast and take on roles I should not have even needed to play for a very long time.
I played the role of mother for my sister and I don't regret a single second, but deep inside it just hurts so bad. Not an overwhelming ache, more like one that grows and grows, creating this burning feeling inside. My sister had a "mother" who cared for and loved her and listened when she was bullied or hurt or sad. She had and has me. But who did I have? No one. I had no one. I had to take on the role of the perfect mother figure, yet my mom (our real mom) couldn't even seem to care when I was ten years old begging her to stop drinking.
Perhaps this is an overshare-- but it hurts-- No actually-- it kills me that my sister had a mother there and I did not. I was there, I always had to be there because if I wasn't my sister would have no one, just like I always did. Yet, I am still the target of my mother's ire and anytime I see her it is usually followed by an argument or accusation, or insult.
I just hate that I am jealous and envious. I hate that I will always wish for a mother I am never going to have. I hate that time is immovable and unchangeable-- time is fixed and no matter what I do I will never be able to go back and have a different mom. I will never have the mother I truly deserve and that hurts worse than anything because I will always wish for it.
At every birthday, at every Christmas, at every shooting star across the sky-- I will always wish for her-- for my mom, before the alcohol because I need her and I can never have her back again.
Nothing is more heartbreaking than seeing your parent right in front of you and not recognizing who they have become. It's like she has died and been replaced by some strange new person I don't even recall in my memories.
But once again-- what do I know, I'm a nobody and I'm no one special.







