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What You Need To Know About Life
More Specifically, Mine.
Don't Know Why I Didn't Come

Ever pray?
Ever pray for a friend?
I finally broke down last night.
My roomate went home for the
weekend, and no one esle was
in the suite. So, I got to spend
some time by myself. I
...

I'm having a hard time writing this.

I'm just so damn lonely. I didn't
want to admit it, but I am. I NEVER
thought I would miss high school.
I don't miss it really, I just miss the
friends. I miss the guy who always
made me smile when we passed, I
miss eating lunch with people and
with people I know and enjoy being
with. I miss having people who know
me, who know that I just argue for
the hell of arguing, people who can
argue back intelligently,
I miss my friends.
Of course, I think I'm glorifying them.
I was never really that close to any
of them, just buddies. Even the one
I had known since first grade, the first
friend I ever made, we just became so
different over time. The guy that always
made me smile, God bless him, he had
a lot of problems of his own to deal with,
he didn't really have any smiles left for me.

I don't think I've ever really been too close
to anyone. I'm just so damn tired of being
alone. I'm so damn tired of not having
someone who can enjoy me as I am, who
can love me as I am. No, I'm not looking
for a hawt boyfwiand and not gay, I'm looking,
I'm praying, for a real friend who can love me,
appreciate me, hell, maybe even like me.

I thought that going to the college I'm at,
I'd find someone more like myself. I thought
spooky kids were everywhere! Not all these
homophobic dumbass abercrombie hollister
von dutch wannabe surfers. It's f*cking
Georgia, you a**, you don't surf in Georgia.
Get the hell over it or MOVE.

Oi, I'm not surprised that I don't really have
many friends here. But this is who I am, I
point out the stupidities of life, laugh at them,
and then move on. These girls don't seem to
get that. And I am NOT going to change myself
or the way I act for anybody ever again. It
took me a long f*cking time to get where I can
look in the mirror and like who I see, and I am
never going back, I can't do that again.
It hurts too much.

So I'm praying. I'm praying that God will help
me find a real, true, honest friend. I need this.
I need someone to talk to. Someone who isn't
pixels on a computer screen. I need a friend.






User Comments: [1]
T h e s t e p H
Community Member





Tue Jan 29, 2008 @ 04:33pm


Looking back, I still find the surfing in Georgia comment hilarious.
Probably because the person I'm really had in mind when I posted that I ran into about a year and a half later at The Varsity [the greatest restaurant in Atlanta].
He was wearing pink plaid shorts, a pink polo, and [get this] pink flip flops.
Did I mention it was a he?

I don't have anything against men in pink - actually, I think it looks really good on some men - but for the fact that half of this particular a*****e's vocabulary was centered around hetero-normative, homophobic rhetoric just made the whole damn situation hilarious.

I'm also really proud that I didn't change to adapt to my suitemates and their friends, because I know it would have made me miserable.
But also for the post-hoc incident where one of my suitemates told me about a discussion the rest of them had had while I was off somewhere else. "Steph, everyone says you're awesome. Lyk srsly, you rawk."
I'm still not sure if that was sincere or just an attempt to placate me, but either way I still appreciated it. Even if it was a white lie or just plain phony, at least they were trying.

And hell, I could sit here and be cynical and say that they only said that because I helped them all with their papers and homeworks assignments, or because I perpetuated an old family tradition of beginning the birthday celebrations at midnight and they liked it, or because I never reported them to the RA for noise disturbance or having guys in the suite after hours [or just plain living there for a week],
but I really don't think they were so callous. I could be doing the same thing to them as I tried to do with my "high school buddies", but even if I am tweaking my own memories, I don't care.
Looking back, I don't regret a damn thing, and I'm really glad I had the chance to get to know them, and to try to coexist in an amiable fashion with them.

What doesn't kill you just leaves fond memories.


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