What causes these random spikes of mine.
Of just wanting to leave. To go. Leave everything and everyone behind.
Is it pre-emptive fear of abandonment? If I abandon first, I can’t Be abandoned?
Is it a desire to travel? I don’t like where I’m living, and my job is…. Fine. Is that it?
Is it wanting to escape? Start somewhere new, where no one knows me? I could just recreate myself. Be someone entirely new.
I feel like it’s a mixture of all… a constant, nagging fear I’m not good enough bubbling until it overflows. So I want to leave. I can’t be hurt if I leave before I can Be Hurt. I don’t have to prepare for the worst if I leave before the worst can even happen. I can go somewhere new, with new people who don’t know me, don’t expect of me.
And the job…. The job is a struggle. This isn’t what I want to be doing. It’s a fine job. Lab technician. It’s fine. Im getting moved to geotech soon (hopefully). But I dont want something that forces me stationary.
I’m jealous of my friends who can create art. I long to have that life style. If I could just, create. Make beautiful things. Travel. Support myself like that. It’d be a dream. It’d be… so good. I really am envious.
But I’m not artistically talented enough. My art doesn’t get compliments, it doesnt get attention. It’s just… basic. I couldn’t make a living from it. And so I’m left with what I went to school for which…. I still dont know if I chose right. Ive never known. I dont know what I want to do. I’m passionate about the environment and yet I dont know what I can do with that.