Despite how open I am on here, despite how honest I may come off as, I sometimes really don't know myself. I am reserved because I never know who will leave-whether they have a reason or not. I have a temper that randomly flares but I hide it well and tend to let things go if they are trivial enough. I don't like conflict, but sometimes I incite the conflict without meaning to and then realize that in some small way I meant for it to happen. I hide my pain, my hurt-anything that will upset the balance that makes me "Hahvy." Sometimes I'll let it out in the chatterbox, but it's always a small portion. And because of this, I guess I feel like a child.
I kept thinking to myself the other day I was a "woman." Not that I'm having gender identity issues, but just issues. Where am I in the manner of growing up? Sometimes I feel so far ahead of people when it comes to maturity and I guess it puts off my peers from wanting to know me. I am fucking smart, I know that and I think I scare people. I can be completely emotionally distant-even to my family. I try to reach out but I feel like I'm just getting in the way of people. I don't lie like people may think or want to believe, I just don't always divulge all the details of the truth. Sometimes I really don't know.
I try my hardest to trust, to let people in, but that person I hide tells me "no," and she has all this control that she probably shouldn't have. The mask I spoke about keeps her hidden, though the mask is lessening. I try to be care-free, to be happy, and it works-sometimes. But I shrug when I look in the mirror and I take so many pictures of myself as if to say "This is really me. I can be this pretty. I can look this good..but the mirror tells me that it isn't me." A picture is worth a thousand words they say, and all I see are the flaws of the pictures. I get comments "you are so pretty" or "you look good." and I think, "Can you see what I see? I have acne there, there, and there. My skin tone is uneven here, my hair is messed up here, my makeup sucks-" and on and on and on. But I still post them because I HAVE to get better. I need to get out of my "comfort" zone and start growing up in a different way.
I grew up in conflicting households. One told me I was perfect the way I was, the other that I wasn't good enough at all. The place I rarely visited had the most impact on me. Why? Because I was my father's daughter. I was a daddy's girl for a long time. I wanted to be perfect for him because he was away all the time. I wanted to be everything he wanted and it killed me to let him down. It tore me up inside when I couldn't be what he expected. In some ways, I'm still that girl trying to get my father's approval. And then I see those comments on my pictures and I think "I'm not so bad, now am I?" I'm trying to break free from all those issues and insecurities that got stacked up over the years, and when I was in school, it didn't help. I was THE kid that was picked on. And I mean THE kid. Other kids got bullied, but not like me. I don't even know if I can relay how hellish it was for me to exist during elementary school and middle school. My brother's anger issues back then didn't help at all either. We fought like cats and dogs and went for the throat each time we fought.
But that was when. The now is different, but I still have to grow up. I'm terrified of whoever I may sleep with next because I'm afraid of exploring that part of me that wants all this control and the other that wants to give it up. I'm torn asunder. I want to love again but I'm terrified of giving away my heart. I no longer want to be alone, but I'm still scared of being so-and-so's girlfriend and not my ex's ex. I'm far better now than I was when I first started coming on this site because of both positive and negative feedback, but I'm still...I don't know. I feel old, I feel too young, I'm stuck. I'm trying to find my way towards what could be my happy ending and I wonder when it will start to show itself. I see pieces of it starting to show but I have to wonder if things will fall apart. I always expect things to fall apart. I'm trying not to be that way anymore and just roll with what I get.
I'm stepping out of being suicidal and terrified of what the world may offer me. But I still fear getting hurt. So many people used to quite literally be out to get me and I can't let that feeling of being vulnerable at one point go. So I put up walls to keep people from seeing that and I suppose it makes me seem...emotionless. I'm not sure. I want to have fun, but I don't want to be considered easy, I want to experiment and again, don't want to be considered easy. I'm stuck on that motion that if I sleep with a certain amount of people I'm just another whore. My mother doesn't realize it, but she embedded those thoughts into me. Just like how she thinks bisexuality is wrong. I'm stuck in between two places- being me and...The Other Me. And I have to ask...just who am I?