Why must I exist?
My socially awkward ass
I want to die
June 19, 2024
Why is my sense of life preservation so high when my life is so meaningless?
June 19, 2024
This may be the last thing some of you might ever hear me say, so listen up.
If you have something to tell someone, anyone:
Do not wait.
Just tell them.
Seize the moment
Or before you know it
It could be too late
June 19, 2024
A life without love is cold
July 13, 2024
There is no inherent meaning to life. There is no defining purpose to existence. The meaning of life is subjective. A being gives its own life meaning through purpose. Whether it be to survive, strive economically, to serve others, or to devote yourself to someone or something, you give your own life meaning. You define its purpose.
I am without purpose. My life has no meaning to me. Sure, I prefer to survive (to an extent), be economically stable, or even devote my life to someone or something, but most of those are just the basics to me. I don't feel that I have a reason to simply survive. It certainly doesn't seem like it's my purpose, but yet it also seems to be the only thing going for me. The only things that I felt gave my life purpose were the relationships that I was involved in. I felt useful in some way. I felt that my purpose was to provide support, affection, and love to someone that wanted to receive it. Perhaps, I was wrong. It has now been a couple months and it seems that I have simply just existed to exist. I feel that I have no purpose. These feelings don't often show in the daylight or in social situations, but when I get tired, and I'm finally alone, they become overwhelming. I feel alone. Over 4 billion people and I am still just by myself, completely locked away. What's worse is that I lack the skills to be able to communicate my feelings or even articulate my deeper thoughts. Somehow, I seem to still have some hope. You'd think that that is a good thing, but sadly, it is only enough to prolong my misery, to emphasize my suffering. I feel both empty and meaningless, and painfully alone. I feel like no one cares. Nobody gives a shit about the weird, depressed, socially awkward guy. I feel that I am simply the embodiment of any trait with a negative stigma wearing a cheap plastic mask that shows fulfillment, joy, and even the sense that I belong. Sometimes, it even works to hide it from myself temporarily. Then, I get tired and the façade falls apart and I am left in the dark with nothing but the feelings of meaninglessness. I feel that I have no purpose and because of that, I shouldn't exist. Like a computer program, when it's served its purpose and no longer has one, it is deleted or uninstalled. I feel that I have reached that point and I wait now for that deletion. There is nothing that makes me feel truly fulfilled. Especially not material goods, though they sometimes provide distractions from the feelings that I do not wish to feel. Alas, those distractions are only temporary. At the end of the night, I feel alone, meaningless and purposeless, just quietly waiting to expire, to be deleted. I wish I could find it in myself to give my life new purpose, such as taking care of George, making people happy, or striving for success, but I know that these are only fragile and temporary. In the end, I know that I will return to this state alone. No purpose, no meaning, no fulfillment. Part of me feels that I've already received enough fulfillment in life to peacefully await the end, like I will not receive any more. On sleepless nights, these are the thoughts that race through my mind. The ones that keep me up. The thoughts that I try to suppress with doses of melatonin in an attempt to ignore them. Alas, it is futile. They always come back. They are always here. They never stop, they never leave. Even when I seem to be at my highest, they exist in the background, waiting for the moment that I am too tired to keep up the facade that tricks not only the others, but my conscious mind itself. Writing it out numbs the pain, but sadly it's still only temporary. It all comes back in the end. Often times, I can't even hold on to them long enough to articulate them before they hide away back in my subconscious, but I know they're still there. They'll never leave. They are forever a part of me. I must learn to cope with them. There is no escape from the darker parts of my mind. I am trapped here until the day I die. Whether it be of something external or internal, inflicted by something or someone or by self. The only escape is death. I'm not exactly eager to take that I exit, so I peacefully wait for it to come to me. Waiting patiently.
July 13, 2024
I wish I could find ways to open up to people about how I truly feel. If I ever were to do so, I feel like I would be met with criticism and mockery from those who will never understand my position and those who won't even try to sympathize. It's a general expectation out there for men not to share the fact that they feel any emotion. We are meant to repress it. We're raised to do that subconsciously. Well, I'm fucking sick of it. I'm done suffering in silence. If you didn't hear the cries for help, or rather if you heard them and chose not to pay attention to them, well, it's partially your fault that I have taken my own life. I couldn't find anyone genuine who gave a fuck about my inner self, my thoughts, my feelings, the parts I tried to hide or lock away. I'm done putting in the effort to conceal it.
Whenever I'm tired, I feel nothing but hopelessly depressed. I don't want to feel this anymore. I wish there was someone or something that could provide me lasting support and happiness. Something that wasn't as temporary as a dopamine rush from some sort of game or puzzle.
August 13, 2024
Allow me to be entirely truthful September 16, 2024
I talk a big talk sometimes and do like to think that if I needed to, I could hurt someone enough to deter them hurting me or someone that I care about. But, for the most part, I feel like I'm more of a gentle soul. In a group of guys, you can't really be that, and it seems that no woman may want it either. I fear that I may never be completely honest and genuine about myself with my friends for fear of being taken advantage of or not taken seriously. That's where it starts and I think it will lead to a negative effect in my romantic life. I feel like, no matter how genuine I try to be, I always wind up wearing a mask subconsciously, in an attempt to keep myself less bullyable.
During the night, I feel alone. I have no one to share my deepest thoughts and feelings with, no one to trust, no one to hold, no one to hold me and tell me that I can just be me. (I'm not gay or trans, just emotionally repressed and I did it to myself.) I want to find someone that I can hold when my heart aches. Someone who puts a smile on my face every time I see her or even hear her voice. Someone to love and cherish. Someone to be there for me in my darkest times and for me to be there for her in hers. I want to find that special someone to actually take romantic walks with through parks and trails, to see movies with, to ride around with, to shop with, to eat with, and to just chill or vibe with. All I've wanted is someone to love, someone to hold, someone to cuddle, someone to put her head on my shoulder, someone to give my coat to when she's cold or huddle with for warmth, someone to share my umbrella with, someone to be my reason to keep waking up, getting out of bed, and accomplishing things with her support, and to be that someone for her in turn. I just want love, real love.
Sadly, at this moment, I just don't seem to see this happening, especially with how socially awkward I am.
And I know that I shouldn't base my happiness and my motivation on having someone to love, and that's not what I'm doing. It's simply a nice perk of having that someone.
When I'm up late at night, I feel a hole in my heart, one that I can't seem to fill myself, like I lack the piece of the puzzle that fits. I know that it should be up to my to find that piece myself, that I should have it somewhere within me to complete the puzzle myself. Tragically, I just don't feel like I have the motivation to find it. I guess it's a catch 22. I should motivate myself and become whole before I find love, but love makes me whole and provides motivation. I guess I'm just at some sort of stalemate of unhealthy mind and habit. I know that self-love is my missing jigsaw piece, the piece that would make me whole, but unfortunately, I'm not motivated to find it. Thus completing the cycle of my misery.
Heart missing a piece -> piece is self-love/self-motivation (needed before I should find external love) -> external love (provides motivation) -> no motivation from having no love (external or self) -> heart missing a piece...
That might be confusing, but I tried to explain it as best as I could. I'm not great at articulating my thoughts into speech or writing.
I know what I want, but it's one of those things where if I need it, I shouldn't have it. It sucks. A hope I have is maybe if I have one, I could use it to find the other, but that may be basing my self-love on external love, which I know isn't healthy. But the experience is euphoric. I think I'd be willing to take that risk if only I could find someone who would ever want anything to do with me.
It's not healthy, but at least I can say this:
I'm healthy enough to not chase someone or something that isn't going to happen. A "no" can hurt, but in time the pain will fade. I just need to keep my head held high and roll with the punches. That's just life.
At the end of the day, my life is made by me and my choices. If I don't wind up leaving a life I can leave off singing Frank Sinatra's My Way, and have it be applicable to the way I lived, then I will not have lived a life worth living.
As for the hard parts of life, Frank Sinatra's That's Life says it all. Life will never be without it's ups and downs. Things will get better after the darkness. Light will shine on me again. As Sinatra sang, "You're riding high in April, shot down in May. But I know I'm going to change that tune, when I'm back on top, back on top again in June....I don't let it get me down, because this world keeps on spinning around."
Crush? September 24, 2024
Not too long ago, a nice woman joined or little discord group. We've played games and just generally chatted a little bit. I've gotten to know her just a little bit. Not a lot by any means, just bare minimum stuff.
For some reason that I cannot begin to explain, I feel that I may have developed a crush on her.
Why did this have to happen? It never works out.
Why I think I might have a crush on her:
1. Whenever a thought about her crosses my mind, I start to feel my heart beat noticeably harder and/or faster.
2. Thoughts of her occasionally cross my mind at random points, sometimes involving random reasons for me to be at least 10 hours away from where I live (closer to where she does) to meet her. I don't even know what she looks like.
3. I actually feel myself getting a little jealous when other guys are talking to her. I do not know why. A possible crush is my only explanation. It happens especially when a certain friend of mine is blatantly engaging in simpish behavior toward her publicly. I try to be a courteous gentleman, and I occasionally cross the line into simpish territory, but only by a little bit, especially compared to how this friend composes himself. Also, it seems that he is trying to make himself look better or smarter than the rest of us, like he is actively competing for a mate. This shouldn't have any effect on me, but I actually do find it irritating.
4. Today in the discord, she said that she missed me, a perfectly normal and platonic statement which she also said for other friends. My logic told me that she was just being friendly or maybe even joking, or something, but some strange hopefully part of my mind raced. It noticed that the message addressed to me was the first one sent, with a gap where another one of my friends responded. Following my friend's response were the rest, all within the same minute. The hopeful part of my mind seems to want to believe that the initial message was the true message and the others were an attempt to hide a possible breach in some sort of feeling for me. I choose to agree with my logical brain that this isn't the case, but the hopeful side still won't relent. Why do I even care? Probably because I have a crush on her.
5. I genuinely care for her. I care is she's feeling well or getting enough sleep. I like to see that she's offline and actually either getting sleep or doing well at her job (night shift is brutal). I genuinely hope she's okay and I feel concern in situations where she states that she feels unsafe.
I don't know if this is a result of my loneliness eating away at my brain and that I haven't really interacted with a woman since I was last in a relationship, so I'm down bad and falling for anyone who will give me attention (pretty likely), or if I actually managed to find something genuinely unique. I have no clue whatsoever. The one thing I am certain of: no matter how much I like her, she won't like me back, at least in that way.
There are some key differences between us that either make me uncomfortable, annoy me a little bit (stuff I can get over), or are just not my cup of tea.
1. Frequent use of gen z slang (it's annoying, but I can get over it, especially if I truly do care for her.)
2. A bit loose with the sexual stuff - full nude vr chat models, and just explicit in ways that I cannot articulate at this moment. (Makes me uncomfortable)
3. Very in to anime - I'm not in to anime and, admittedly out of spite, I have shown much disdain for it as a style. I have remained adamant on my stance and refusal to watch it. Why? I can't even say anymore. It runs me the wrong way, and I have the spite drive going for me. (But, maybe, just maybe, I could give one a try if I found someone who was into it and wanted to share it with me.)
So, yeah. I think I might have a crush on her. Will I ever tell her?
I'm not sure.
My hope is that she at least accepts my feelings and we can move from there.
My fear is that she'll reject my feelings and things will become awkward between us.
My pessimism says that of the two, my fear is more realistic, more grounded in reality, and statistically provable.
I may bring this issue to my confidants to discuss my situation. As of writing this, I'm not certain. For now though, I will add this to the "Notes App 2024" section of my mental health blog page https://news.WrostNetwork.net/realian. At some point down the line, I may inform my confidants of the recent wave of content added to it. Writing these helps me process my feelings and it helps when I can just share them to whomever I would like to provide insight of the deeper parts of my mind or my heart (metaphorical sense).