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I am still not really back

Journal Entry: Thu Dec 10, 2009, 8:38 PM
It hasn't been very long anyway. But you know, that won't stop me from posting a journal and then going back to not doing stuff. A journal all about MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. this shit is getting old

A lot of times I write long journal entries at the end of a bad day painstakingly detailing my deep set personal flaws - my self-absorbed nature, how I run from my responsibilities and a laundry list of other undesirable traits - but then I delete the whole thing once I remember what a bad idea that sort of thing is on the internet. I think I write them half with the intention of apologizing for myself when there's simply no apologies that can fix a worthless person, and half with the intention of somehow justifying my dickery. "Don't you see now? This is why I did that terrible thing! I'm damaged goods! Yes, it's my fault, but I'm like this because I'm like this." But in the end, I decided that it's better to skip the long, insipid paragraphs of not bullshit but nevertheless superfluous introspection - because they don't matter to anyone but myself. The message I wanted to impart becomes subtext under the shame I write about when it should be front and center, and it doesn't really matter why you do what you do, just that you did it.

I'm sorry. If I caused you - anyone who's ever known me - anywhere between a day and a lifetime of disappointment or frustration, I'm sorry. My apologies became cheap when I started throwing them around so much, as if my self-depreciation was a valid alternative to the slack I didn't pick up when you were counting on me.

No matter how tenderly we handle ourselves when examining the weaknesses in our character (and to call them weaknesses is to put a gentle word over what's often very brutal self-loathing) we always come out bruised. We're unable to extol our virtues because they become so transparent in the face of our venomous parts, and then no one has any patience for their battered dignity.



big words.

Even though it's weird to put this at the end of such a melodramatic and hyphen-filled journal entry, I also wanted to say happy holidays. If you celebrated Thanksgiving, I hope you ate some bitchin' food. Enjoy this hearty helping of Mood Whiplash. I'll write more worthwhile journal entries someday.

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:iconmaxburg:
WHAT IS THIS SH-*nuke*

also, quit hating yourself. your bunnies are on my wall above my computer screen and constantly remind me how small i am
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:iconfelix-cattus-guilty:
IT SEEMS LIKE LONGER, 'KAY?
Happy holidays to you, too. Also, you're coherent enough with the self-loathing to be quite bearable.Well, bearable apart from the knee-jerk reaction of "How dare you look down on yourself, you're awesome!"
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:iconmero-ix:
Yet you always write your long entries so well. I've learned a long time ago that words don't agree with me. I can't even write an entry like this to apologize for being me because it would just come out as gobbledygook.
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~LMP-TheClay Dec 11, 2009  Student Traditional Artist
:hug:
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~KizukuDawn Dec 11, 2009  Student Traditional Artist
I feel your pain. People are nice to me and tell me how nice my art is when underneath it all I feel like I'm a douche and they shouldn't bother with me. -But it's like Luciole said, if they don't know what you've done and only you do--that's why you're still seen as an awesome person. I think you're an awesome person too ;) Or at least a majorly brilliant artist. Exillior's point is a good one too, at least you feel remorse, it's a great sign of compassion.
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`Exillior Dec 11, 2009  Hobbyist General Artist
That you can see this deeply into yourself and react to that insight, is in itself a very great virtue. Don't be so hard on yourself :heart:
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~luciole Dec 10, 2009  Professional Digital Artist
I think we all have these same moments.. times when we have self doubt and think we're real assholes. That's the thing though.. we know ourselves better than anyone else and every single horrible thing we do is remembered.. so we think we're the scum that hangs on the side of trashcans.
But to another person, they don't see all these things and you are, to them, a very cool person. So if you feel down, at least to me you are a very cool person ;D
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:iconmensch-o-matic:
Taking a break from taking a break is fine with me! Your journals always either amuse me to no end or make me actually sit down and, you know, THINK FOR A LITTLE WHILE about, you know, ACTUALLY WORTHWHILE THINGS, so I hope you never feel that you're annoying anyone by posting them. And letting out your feelings is nothing to kick yourself over-even if you think noone else cares about your introspection having it out there to sort out and try to think over is liberating for you and noone's going to bitch about you talking about yourself in your journal (at least not while you make them so eloquent and/or hilarious at least haha).




Midnight is apparently an appropriate time for gushing and flailing about except NOT

FREAK OUT
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:iconkafai:
bawbaw your writing is so fluid even when you cast down on yourself
* n *
/I seriously kept reading just for your word choice and disregarded the negativity

I hope whatever the dickery can be fixed whole-heartedly.
Yet I'm not one who can see it really.
you should eat yourself some cornbread
that always makes me feel better
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~MissusHow Dec 10, 2009  Student Artist
I think you're pretty cool mang. Sometimes it's hard to see the good parts of ourselves because we're concentrating so hard on the bad. We all have bad qualities but we have just as many good ones to balance them out.

Balance is the key. <3
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