
For the longest time, I thought that I needed to be somewhere else or some
one else to be happy. For the longest time, that wasn't true. I realized, recently, that the opposite is becoming true—in respects to others. Don't worry if this doesn't make sense tonight. It should become clearer, eventually.
When I was younger, people picked on me. Sure, I was
that kid—the fat one—the one who wouldn't stand up for himself because he was a mama's boy. I know what you're thinking, and let me respond in kind: Fuck—you. Sometimes I deserved getting my ass beat, yeah, but those times where the times when I provoked the other person; most of the time I didn't do anything other than be me. Most of the time, I had someone bigger than me to back me up.
Things are different now. My number is coming up this year, and I have shit to show for it. I feel I have squandered my life up to this point, and there's no adult to hold my hand when I'm lonely; no person to tell me everything will be okay. That, however, is okay. It means I need to put up or shut up more now than I ever felt I needed to in the past. It means I need to have the chutzpah to make it through to my end.
Cynicism is not something in which I believe, and it's difficult to adhere to that non-belief—as much as that can be true. Idealism, in contrast, is my cup of tea. Each day I see people help each other out. Each day I see what always was and always will be. Each day I see that people are doing their best to maintain and fortify the bastion that is human dignity. Even if things appear warped, they're not as bad as you think.
Call me what you will.
Think of me what you will, but I know where I stand. I hope you know where it is that
you stand.