Friday, December 21, 2012
It's breaking me inside, but I said I would, so I'm still trying. Pardon the feelings that wouldn't go away no matter how hard I try. At some level I think it's still too early, and I'm not ready for it, I can't let go. But you're right. Why bother?
It's good that you've stopped waiting for me. Now it's just time to see if I could stop waiting for myself soon.
Monday, September 10, 2012
And after 257 posts over a total of four years, I've decided to close this channel and move on to a simpler platform on tumblr. Yes, four years, all of which amounted to an archive bursting with dark emo-fests, forgotten childhoods, joys and pains and dreams and sorrow. It's not easy to leave this familiar blogskin and warm up quickly to the new plain, emotionless white theme, but I can't stay in one place forever, and it's about time to close one window and open another.
From now on, all new posts will be made here: http://www.the-interim.tumblr.com
But of course, I will never forget this blog; if I ever feel the need to run back into the comforts of this sanctuary I've built for myself over the past four years, and perhaps cry a little more, love a little less, and be a little more alone, I will.
Until then, this world is behind me.
Sunday, September 9, 2012
Sometimes it takes just a little reflection to scour the gritty surface of life and gaze into the barren visage that lies underneath, and we would come to the realisation, even if just for a short moment, that the weaknesses and needs we believe so strongly to be our own plague many others equally in unseen hours. The hidden tears, the concealed troubles, the carefully contained emotions sealed in a vessel packed too tightly with other vessels to make a sound; all these mixed signals swirling in a soup of madness that drifts from person to person, cushioning cold shoulders, obscuring hostile glares, lubricating the trillions and trillions of little cogs in a gargantuan social machine that will never stop working itself to the end of infinity. That is not to say, of course, that no good comes from this insulation. It saves. It saves us by alleviating the most corrosive effects of strife, but not without exacting a payment of sorts.
And we've paid for it, generations after generations, by being lonely.
Everyone needs something deep down inside, and our knowledge of this need is innate. A gaping abyss mars the landscape within each and every one of us, forming schisms within ourselves, sowing into the darkness seeds of contention that would slowly feed upon our confusion and grow into full-fledged internal wars...and all this we would have to deal with on our own in a battle with the self where we can only hope to emerge victorious. Everybody needs, everybody is weak, everybody can never be strong enough. There is no way to measure the degree to which a person needs something, or justify the importance of his hopes and dreams in relation to another's, and at the end of the day we're all just humans. Jealous, contriving, miserable humans, creatures who have sufficient intelligence to populate the upper end of the spectrum, but too much unbounded imagination to be sated by the definite or appeased by the incorporeal. Who doesn't need? Who doesn't desire?
Who doesn't hope?
Who doesn't hate?
Life is both a feast of the greatest proportions and the deadliest poison at the same time, and amidst unexpected joys and curtailed revelries, luck toys with our bewilderment as if we have an infinite capacity for ignorance and misunderstanding. My duty as a fellow human being is to empathise to the best of my ability and deliver as much help as possible, but there is nothing I can do beyond that. Just like you, I need, I want, I hope, and just like you, I've concealed, acted, suffered and had my fair share of despair. I will not hate you for what you've done, but I will not hate myself either for not being nearly as noble and selfless as everyone expects, to some tiny, selfish degree, everyone else to be. It's the way the world goes, round and round and round, and we're just little beings trapped in the momentum, equally helpless in our attempts to free ourselves from the unfathomable, maddening vertigo.
I've realised, and maybe you should too, that there is nothing to blame. There's nothing to forgive, either.
It's just the way it is.
Saturday, September 8, 2012
I think I've broken my record for the number of hours slept in one go, and even while I'm typing here I still can't believe myself, not to mention I'm incredibly pissed. I was so tired yesterday evening that I nearly fell asleep on the MRT standing and almost missed my stop, and then by the time I got home after math tuition I was feeling all dizzy so I took a nap at around 7.35pm. I set my alarm clock to 8.30pm at the LOUDEST BUZZER VOLUME, thinking that my parents would wake me up at 8.30 in time for dinner.
But no. I slept all the way, think they tried to wake me up at around 9, but somehow that didn't work, and the second time my dad came in was at 12.16am and he was asking if I wanted to wake up for dinner, but I remember being extremely confused with the time and mumbling incoherently and going all like "nevermind". I think at some point in time I expressed some sort of determination to wake up at 4am today to catch up on the 4 hours wasted sleeping (from 7.30 to 12.30, at the very least), so he helped me set the alarm clock. And then I fell right back into a deep, undisturbed sleep with a very vivid dream about 911, a crashing elevator, a dark forest, school, chinese lessons and maplestory.
And then the next time I woke up, it was 6.45am and my alarm clock (set at 5am) was beneath my back, and I'm not even going to ask how the hell it got there. I was utterly nonplussed. I've never had such a screwed up sense of time before and I'm still pretty amazed.
I don't know, I'm probably going to sleep at 4am today or something, so that I can do the work I had planned to do yesterday night but miraculously left behind because I completely lost myself in lala land. Oh, fuck my stupid stupid self.
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
And I'm really only being far too idealistic. Often a time I would think I had made some progress and bettered myself, that over the years, the intoxicating effects of the dreams that used to have such a strong hold on me have been negated by wave after wave of reality, and for a short while I would feel mildly sure of my place in this world...until times like this, when I would awake abruptly amidst all the buzzing humdrum, only to realise that what remains of my idealism is just so deeply insidious that I'm completely unaware of it. What he said yesterday was absolutely spot-on. It hit the pin, drove it right into my head, and for a good hour or so I couldn't stop hearing those words in my head like some sort of gyrating bird, reminding, reminding, reminding.
We all have our own worlds to explore and perceive, and nobody can follow us wherever we go, not for a few seconds, minutes, days...not for a thousand lonely years.
Monday, September 3, 2012
I've decided that at least for the next few weeks, I won't hate you, curse you, or punish you anymore. I'm tired, but even so I'm not going to give myself anymore excuses. I've been an unreasonable parent in both conceivable ways, and I'm going to change that.
Saturday, September 1, 2012
"I'm tired. I feel that something's broken in me now."
It's true, and at some level I've definitely lost a significant part of my innocence, and the colourful idealisms I used to hold so dear to me have been marred in ways I have yet to fully comprehend. What is helplessly certain is that I can no longer dream with the comforts of security, laugh and fool around and lunge with careless conviction into joyous moments, and trust as openly, behave as freely, or be as certain of the protection I am able to offer the innermost personalities that reside within myself. Walls have been built, strings have been cut, boundaries have been redrawn and new fences are in place. I'm no longer able to be a child, at least not to myself...not anymore.
I just wasn't sure of myself. But now I am.
I love you, I love you, I love you, and I need you to know...that regardless of all that happens, this is one thing that will never change.
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
You've won. I hope you're fucking happy now. After all everyone forgets about moral decency once in a while, don't they? It's no big deal, no big deal slowly poisoning someone you no longer give a fuck about; it's probably enjoyable anyway, and you've been waiting for this to happen for a long time just that you never had the courage it takes to speak up about it.
It only concerns you if the person is dead. Dead, and then you can get him out of your life.
You've gotten what you want. You've taken all I have. There is nothing I have left to give.
Have a fucking good life.
Monday, August 27, 2012
Please...please...
Please don't hurt me anymore.
I love you.
Sunday, August 26, 2012
After a while, having been so mindlessly engaged in the comings and goings of life and people and events and things for the past few months...I've forgotten how simple everything could be if only I could find it in myself to just let go. After all it's not something I'd have to go out of my way to strive for; I've always had the ability to do so, only I've thrown myself so willingly into the elaborate beauty of a rare illusion that was able to fully capture my heart and soul and sate these two famished beasts, that I cannot even conceive of any prospect of leaving it now...leaving this cage, this intricate home that offers at once the tender nourishment I need and the concentrated bouts of pain and misery that would make me throw myself against the bars in a desperate frenzy - until a cursory glance across the bleak and wintry landscape that spans for miles and miles beyond, with its howling wind, its battered trees, its excruciating whiteness and biting cold and blank scrutiny of the greying skies...makes me realise with a crushing sense of dejection that there's simply nowhere else to go.
And now, like most other illusions in which I've dived and nearly drowned, this one has begun to seem almost on the brink of dissipating right before my eyes into the cold, hard realisation of nothingness. A small part of me deep in myself is curling up on the ground and breaking into sobs underneath the blanket - of me, of all the layers and layers and layers of me that impose unforgivingly upon that part of myself in a ruthless attempt to quash it completely from existence. But I can't. I can't disappear, and I can't make myself disappear. Deep inside I'm still a child who has never grown up over the past few years, and probably never will.
I want to run away, but I don't know where I can look to. I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know what I want. I don't know how I'm going to survive. I don't know what life is like, should be like, and will be like. What should I do? What can I possibly do?
I've decided that if an appointment can be made in time, I'll go for a counseling session next wednesday, because I think I...really, really need it now. I'm desperate. I'm lost. I've reached the stage where my cynicism has failed to delude myself into believing that my reserve of strength can last me through the battle with myself, and now I want nothing more than to talk to someone who would want nothing from me but my honest words, who would accept my flaws, not with loving eyes but with understanding ones all the same.
...It's times like this that I wish...
I wish...
...I wish I knew what I wish for.
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