32 years on this beautiful blue marble that we call planet Earth. I can say that while I haven't seen a lot in this world just yet, I have seen enough to form my thoughts on this world and its effects on and in my life. This world has definitely thrown a lot at me. Some of which, I didn't think that I would be able to ever recover from, but yet here I am, able to type this out because I was able to beat it. I'll be lying though if I said that there's still some things that don't still torment me sometimes. Something that I cant shake no matter how hard I've tried to.
I've been able to deal with a lot of things that's come my way. Sometimes I've need to take a step back to look objectively and then solve it. Other times, I've been able to run head on, tackle, and beat said problems like that. That's kind of my preferred way anyway. The one thing that I haven't been able to really conquer, yet alone get a grip on in the ways that I've hoped is love. It's been so damn daunting. So damn elusive. Completely fucking fleeting that I've wanted to just pull a Davy Jones from Pirates of the Caribbean and lock my heart away and keep on pushing. In some ways, I've done just that. People are always telling me that it's hard to get a read on me or that it's hard to tell what I'm feeling. Whether it's about them or it's about a particular situation, people have just had a hard time getting a feel for what's going on in my head or in my heart.
Half of it is because I'm just naturally a quiet person. I'm introverted in some regards and I'm extroverted in some aspects also. I'm very much an ambivert. I'm an observer and I study my surroundings before I'm able to feel comfortable enough to want to in engage in the level that I want to. The other half of it is by design. I've been hurt so much in the past by some women (some of which have been documented on here) that I've just crawled inside myself and buried within. To never allow myself to be hurt again. To never open myself up again to anyone who was just using me or never gave 2 entire squirts of piss about me. I never wanted to feel that type of heartbreak and that type of dejection ever again, no matter the cost. If that I meant that I would have to sacrifice me and my heart to isolation in terms of my love life, I was willing to give it up because I didn't want to feel that pain again.
The date is August 1st, 2019. The time. 8:37 PM. A choice that seemed simple enough is about to become a catalyst that's eventually going to lead to this particular entry. The next day, August 2nd. The time. 9:18 AM. I never would have thought that a simple "good morning" would lead me to this particular entry also, but here we are. Enter Shay. The choice that was made on August 1st at 8:37 PM and that was the same choice to send a good morning text to on August 2nd at 9:18 AM and as of this moment the choice that I've been continually making since 8:37 PM of that night.
Since that day, we've been gradually growing closer and closer to each other. We've been hanging out every time that we've had a chance to. We've constantly enjoyed each other's company. We love talking to each other every day, and quite frankly, not talking to you every day will really throw me off now because I'm so used to it and I look forward to it every single day. We truly do care about each other. I know you feel that way about me and I show you that I feel that way about you. The one thing that we've been getting more and more into is the fear of each other. You tell me all the time how scared you are because I do feel like that "too good to be true" deal that Disney and the rest of that ilk and also just life has painted. While I've constantly heard that about myself before and it makes my ears bleed, I can understand why you said it. We talk about your fears all the time, but we haven't discussed mine. For all of my ability to eloquently display my elocution, when it comes to this topic, all I can draw is a big ass blank when it comes to this. But I'm gonna try right now.
Shay, TRUST ME ON THIS. You're not the only one that's scared. You truly do terrify me. I cant remember the last time that I've felt like this about a woman the way that I feel about you. I care about you immensely. I cant go a single day without talking to you in some capacity. When I'm around you, everything that's bad. Everything that's negative. Every bad thought instantly leaves my head and body because the energy around you is so pure, so full of light, so serene that it's impossible to try and be mad or upset or angry around you. When I'm around you, all I can do is smile and be happy. You are so warm and inviting. I've said it before and I'll continue to keep saying it, you are most definitely a light that this world so sorely needs.
You terrify me because I haven't met a woman like you in a very long time. I haven't met someone who was able to completely see through my smokescreen and my wall so quickly. I've not met someone who was truly able to see me for me and not for the dark persona that my personality dictates. It's not been a person in a very long time that was able to see, with clarity, my heart for what it is. I've long since believed that my heart was this cold and dormant entity that was doomed to roam this world without a chance to bleed warm blood again. While that was a thought and a reality that definitely was something I went through, I had no idea a woman of your caliber was going to come into my life and see my heart for what it wasn't and see the truth for what it was. You instantly saw and knew that my heart wasn't like this and slowly, but surely, this cold, desolate isolation post that I call my heart instantly started feeling warm again.
That's something that really scares me. A woman hasn't been able to see the inner me for a long time. I never wanted that to be a thing anymore. I never wanted someone to see me at my core again. I never wanted that fire to be lit again because I was so afraid that it would just be put out again. I never wanted to feel too happy with a woman again because I just knew that sooner or later, some stupid ass ex-dude or some dude that felt like that they had some kind of claim to her would come the fuck in and wreak all sorts of havoc and while her and that dude ride off into the sunset together and happy, there I am, shattered and left to pick up the pieces of what just happened. I know that I cant always prevent those kind of things from happening nor would I be able to anyway, but it's still hella heartbreaking to go through and to pick up the pieces from.
I can admit it here that I do have some insecurities about you. I know what you told me about Rick and how you 2 have hooked up in the past when no one else is involved. I know what you've told me about your relationship right now. I'll be lying if I said that it was easy for me to deal with. You obviously know him better than I do and you know how you deal with and go about things, BUT I'll be lying if I said that I was 100% comfortable. I've had situations like that happen to me in my past where a couple women have told me that their exes wouldn't pull no shit like that. That they were completely done with them. That I had absolutely nothing to worry about. Needless to say, that was a bunch of bullshit because of the fact that said dudes that I didn't have to worry about ended up coming into the picture and fucking up shit. Hell, I even caught one of them in bed with one of the women that I was dating and I'll let you imagine the rage that was going through my body upon finding and witnessing that. You always tell me that I shouldn't worry about it and that I have nothing to worry about with you and him. It's not you that's my issue. It's him. Seeing how I've been on both sides of this coin in my teenage years and in my 20s, I know how that shit goes. Especially when word gets around that said girl is talking to and entertaining someone else. All of a sudden, old feelings come back, thoughts of wanting to make it work again resurface, and here comes a fucking clown entering some shit that they should have never had no fucking business in. I can say that I've matured from doing stupid shit like that and I've apologized to said women that I did that to, but I do know that while I may be the type to do that and acknowledge my shortcomings, I know that there are some men who wouldn't and would EASILY do that shit because they figured they could get away with it or worse, actually succeed in what they set out to do.
As much as this is hard for me and these are things that I'm dealing with inwardly, I don't think that you would be the type to do anything like that. There's something different about you. I cant exactly put my finger on it, but I do feel like you wouldn't do that to me. I've been wrong about this before which adds on to the initial fear I have of you, but it really does feel like you wouldn't do anything like that to me. You terrify me because it feels like I have the best chance to love and be loved the way that I've always wanted to be. I know how to love. I know how I want to be loved. I just always thought that it was an unattainable thing that was nothing more than a dream. Haven't thought for a long time that it could be a real possibility in my life again.
I know that I have my demons that I'm combating when it comes to you and I have my bouts with issues that I'm currently facing. I do know this one thing. I don't want anyone else, but you. I don't think anyone could get me the way that you do. I don't think no one could understand me the way that you do. When stuff like this comes up, you speak from a lot of "whoever is my future" whatever, and quite honestly, I can completely understand that. Who really knows what the future holds? Who knows what could happen tomorrow or down the line? I completely get it. That's not how I feel or see it though. Whatever the future holds, when it comes to me, I completely see myself facing it with you. I don't want to face the future with anyone else. You're fast becoming my favorite best friend. You're fast becoming the person I wanna share my triumphs with and tell my setbacks to. I don't need to say whoever is my person that's in my future such and such and such. I already know who I want in my future and it's you Shay. I can say that with the utmost confidence. I knew that was the case and was what I wanted when we were at your sister's house that Saturday. There was eye contact that we shared when we were outside in her backyard. I instantly knew right then and there, this is who I wanted to face life with. This is who I wanted in my corner. This is who I wanted to love forever and ever.
You scare me. Yes you do. I'm battling things that I didn't think I would again. I didn't think I would feel like this ever again, It's because of you that I'm ready to fight all of this to be better. To be better for you. Most importantly to be better for me.
Myles Kennedy of Alter Bridge once sang, "In this world of give and take, you must have faith." "Cause I see in you, more than you'll ever know." These are things that I've long since given up on, but only recently have been reignited in my heart. I want to be better. I need to better. I'm going to be better.
You cause so many feelings and emotions in me, most of which I understand, some of which I don't, but I do want to one day look you in your beautiful brown eyes and tell you, "I see in you more than you ever know." I also wanna keep looking in your beautiful brown eyes and tell you, "You need to know how it feels to be alive" because that is EXACTLY how you help and make me feel each and every day that you're in my life...