3/13/2017

Diary Clip

March 12, 2017
11:30 AM
I can't remember when was the last time I cried before today. Years, probably. I might have teared up a little back when Jenny rejected me, saying she's not ready for a boyfriend, but realized she loved me a week later. Well, that turned out wrong - she was ready. Not for a long-term boyfriend, but a boyfriend nonetheless.

When Jenny does leave, I am half-considering striking up conversation with other girls. Truth be told though, I want to stay single for a few years. Focus on school, and (later) work. Take a second look at life.

Knowing myself, I might end up in the gym twice a week and go shopping on the weekends for some better sets of clothes, just as I did in my first semester of  uni when I was single and desperate to meet a nice girl. I don't think I will end up that way again. At least, I hope I don't. But loneliness is cold and biting, and it has driven me since my preteens. I don't know how that will change.
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I only want her to be happy. And if that means ending it here and now, then so be it.

10:30 PM
It is done. I am single.

Honestly, I feel terrible. I love the girl. But I know it is better for both of us.

I'll probably be fucking miserable for quite a while. Logic and rationale precedes yesterday and succeeds tomorrow, but all the logos in the world cannot change how I feel.

March 13, 2017
I will be 23 in 3 hours.

This is my greatest fear right now, except I am hardly the happy guy in the first picture.

Jenny is already filling her time with sports and camps. I have no coping mechanism, no support. I have no time to join any new societies with how ECOS2001 and ACCT2011 are treating me - I did not get a single question correct in the tutorial this morning. Henry barely responds with more than a sentence when I speak to him about it, and I have no other close friends to turn to. And unlike Jenny, I gain no happiness from doing things like looking at the sunrise or sunset.

I want to withdraw from the world. And let's not be afraid to make decisions here - I will do so.

I expect in the coming weeks to feel anger. To lash out emotionally at a girl who does not deserve it. To lash out at myself, who maybe does. And I expect to feel the irrational, to tell myself that I am wholly undeserving of anything in this world. I can only lock myself up so that no one sees me. And I can only pray that time heals us both.

Guess I'll be skipping out on my birthday.

But I need to look forward. I have not felt a desire to end it all, since I donned the navy blue that changed my life forever. I will not relapse into a suicidal mindset, and I cannot. I am much stronger than that.
Some stuff I probably should not be saying (but will anyway, since I'm being irrational):

When I was on the plane to Sydney, there was a girl in the next aisle, watching GoT on her laptop. When the lights came on (it was a night flight) I woke up and we made eye contact a few times - she was actually really cute. Then she tried to strike up conversation as everyone exited the plane, but I just smiled and said nothing. I am no cheater, after all. But in hindsight I wonder if I should have talked to her, saved her number for future use.

Additionally, the kiwi girl Julie is in my accounting lecture and I get the feeling she looks for me at the end of each, trying to find my face. We have made eye contact at least once every lecture. I'm starting to think she is a little more fond of me than I originally thought. I also have evidence to believe she is a lot more sensible than I thought...but that's something for another day.

But I feel nothing from these little victories. I feel like girls are to come and go, like flashes of color in those fast-forward city street videos you see as the background on news channels. Plus I have no time for a girlfriend, between my studies, Warframe, and day-to-day errands such as maintaining my physical health. My path is truly one of loneliness, and I can feel its icy grasp around my chest ever so clearly. It's not a new feeling.

Now, I will be 23 in 2 hours, and I have nothing to show for it.


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