When did I fuck it all up?

Zena 2022-11-03 07:06:13

"What was once before you, an exciting and mysterious future, is now behind you, lived, understood, disppointing.You realized you're not special. You have struggled into existence and are now slipping silently out of it. This is everyone's experience Every single one. The specifics hardly matter. Everyone is everyone. "The

last time I cried until the ending song of a movie was finished, it was eleven years ago. Looking back, everything seemed to be fine at that time. So where did it go wrong? From which point in time, which choice, which failure? Since when my life has slipped uncontrollably astray, leading to a mess of today? How did I lose my original hand? Good card? How did I close the window to hope with my own hands? How did I disappoint my relatives step by step and let my friends leave? I can feel that many parts of me have already left me, but when did this happen?

When I thought about this, I fell into a self-awareness excess again. I found that no one wanted to listen when I wanted to talk about my pain. Everyone was talking about themselves. Because, yes, everyone has their own worries and their own troubles. You think your thinking is interesting, but you are probably the only one who thinks so.

If I could attribute my failure to the wrong person I knew and what I did wrong, would I feel better? I have no idea. I look at the people around me, the people I have known, and think they are all better than me.

At the end of everything, I remembered that when I was six years old, I had a poem and was warmly praised by my mother. At that time, we all felt that my future was particularly bright and my future was particularly promising.

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  • Sammy Barnathan: I've watched you forever, Caden, but you've never really looked at anyone other than yourself. So watch me. Watch my heart break. Watch me jump. Watch me learn that after death there's nothing. There's no more watching. There's no more following. No love. Say goodbye to Hazel for me. And say it to yourself, too. None of us has much time.

  • [over radio]

    Millicent Weems: What was once before you - an exciting, mysterious future - is now behind you. Lived; understood; disappointing. You realize you are not special. You have struggled into existence, and are now slipping silently out of it. This is everyone's experience. Every single one. The specifics hardly matter. Everyone's everyone. So you are Adele, Hazel, Claire, Olive. You are Ellen. All her meager sadnesses are yours; all her loneliness; the gray, straw-like hair; her red raw hands. It's yours. It is time for you to understand this.

    Millicent Weems: Walk.

    Millicent Weems: As the people who adore you stop adoring you; as they die; as they move on; as you shed them; as you shed your beauty; your youth; as the world forgets you; as you recognize your transience; as you begin to lose your characteristics one by one; as you learn there is no-one watching you, and there never was, you think only about driving - not coming from any place; not arriving any place. Just driving, counting off time. Now you are here, at 7:43. Now you are here, at 7:44. Now you are...

    Millicent Weems: Gone.