a painful, negative, self-destructive day.

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Today is going to be, from my point of view – my experiences and feelings, a painful, negative, self-destructive day. The mere fact that I have decided to fast today, that is, I’m not going to eat or drink anything until it’s tomorrow, is going to do odd things to me anyway. My mother decided to wake me up today, just because it was time to be out the door on the way to my class she thought that I shouldn’t be lounging half-naked in the warm darkness of my bed, but instead that I should be more properly dressed (though not any more warmly) and outside in the cold, hungry and half asleep, trudging my way slowly to my inevitably dismal English class. Then, after expressing this to me in much fewer words, my mother walked away without sliding my door back into place; the cold air and harsh light had apparent pleasure in filling my room with their inherent pain and torturing me quickly into a negative emotion set. Now everything is tinted black, sa though through a pair of peril-sensitive sunglasses that have realized that Everything is bad and are determined not to let me see any of this horrible life. Even my feelings of happiness and mirth are dripping with pain and self-torture. And look at all the dancing faeries dancing around and round your head, reminding you that every second there’s another person dead. Don’t you wish it was you, so that you could never feel this way again…

I wish someone would notice…

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Ahh… Monday, meaning that I’ve just finished a weekend; and what a weekend it was, or could have been. Was it a good weekend, a bad weekend, or perhaps the sort of weekend that you’re just not sure about? I think it was all three of those, and maybe something more. And why, specifically, was it such a weekend? Was there some main thing adjusting my weekend, or was it just a coincidental complication of events? It might have been both, and if it was, was there anything certain about this weekend?

Sigh… I have noticed that in comparison to seemingly average people, I react much less than they do – to anything. What would drive most people into an angry rage merely makes me feel a bit disturbed, and things that severely disturb the average person have little to no effect on me. I have been advised to react more honestly to how I feel, and that seems to make sense, but through years of not reacting I have trained myself not to feel. Or at least not to let myself KNOW that I feel.

Sometimes I don’t even know I feel bad until I see that I’ve made it overcast and rainy. Sometimes I don’t even know it’s raining; just that I feel bad enough to cry… I wish someone would notice…

Cold again this morning

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Yesterday I went to the State Fair and gave them all my money for a few hours’ entertainment. I took my girlfriend Addie and basically doubled the cost. Of course, since she was there, the amount of fun I had must have at least tripled. I won her a little brightly colored stuffed cow, which I later named “upholstered” by letting one of those guys convince me to give him all my money to throw a little ball. We went on the new ride, The Evolution, and while I was spinning around upside down I lost 50cents… oh well. I also got a cool paper bracelet which cost so much that I’m not sure I want to rip it off; it cost so much it must be worth a couple days’ wear and tear.

Cold again this morning, and if I hadn’t been wearing a T-shirt and shorts every day for the last few weeks I would have had trouble getting to school through the chilly air.

Bbbbrrr…

Very few repurcussions…

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Do you realize that if I died today, very few repurcussions would follow? One of the most annoying is that I would not be attending the rest of the semester, but would not be available to officially withdraw. My grades would all drop to F’s, and even in death I would be a failure. Another thing that would happen if I died would be that my family would incur at least a few thousand dollars of debt, what with sky-rocketing funeral expenses. Even only with cremation the cost is no less than $1200. Since my family makes less than six times that in a year, this would only add to their misery. Of course, since they’ve already got tens of thousands of dollars of debt and seem to be doing alright, I suppose a few thousand more wouldn’t really hurt.

Then again, other than human misery and pain because of their irrational inability to deal with death, there really aren’t any other important side effects. My death, since someone somewhere dies (on average) once every one and a half seconds, would truly be unimportant. Bad grades, higher debt for my family, and any irrational mourning by the people in my life really isn’t that bad, and won’t really last very long after I’m gone. Since there is someone born somewhere every 2/3 of a second, there are plenty of people to take my place; I will not be missed if you look at the whole.

Better than some things

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Sometimes I just wish that this would all go away; no more of anything at all to complicate reality. Then again, what fun would there be if there was nothing to do or think about? I know, because I spent a lot of time in such a situation, that it is more fun sometimes than the trivial everyday situations and complications that are presented me. However, does this really make nothing better than something, or just better than some things?

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Friday night I put on some makeup (I appeared to be pale as this page on every inch of visible flesh), added a drop of blood to my lower lip, stepped into a skirt and blouse, and went to Thunderbird HS’s Halloween dance with my girlfired, Addie. As are most HS dances, it was fairly cliquish, and there was a fairly small amount of dancing, not to mention the fact that the only dancing going on was older than most of the people there. Luckily, I don’t know how to dance, and was thus spared having to do such a thing.