you ever feel like even tho you are technically the main character in your life you still feel like the side character, the supporting character? idk if its just because of how i've been raised, always having to worry about how other people feel. as much as I try to not people please, i still do in a way. i had a long talk today, just sitting in a parking lot and going over so much shit that i haven't been able to talk about. i feel lighter, maybe a little more aware. i dont know if how I am feeling in this moment is permanent or just for the moment, i wont lie i just dont know but, i feel like my time here has kind of faded away.
I love everyone here, truthfully, when I started out I had so much fun, it was amazing to see how welcome I was. broke me out of a lot of walls i had up being in this fandom. Every time i come on here I feel less and less like me, more of the same? ive lost my spark and I feel like maybe it just means my time with rumi is up. I can't wake her up, the excitement I had writing her now feels washed away by the tides. I dont know if I will feel different tomorrow. im sorry for everything people are waiting on or excited for. ill leave this blog up, maybe it'll change. i know i said a hiatus but maybe i need to be more strict on myself and just for now, leave altogether. because i havent logged out, because i still get notifications, I still come back and it just makes it worse. I feel kind of like a loner on tumblr, i can be goofy and just myself, but im still really shy and closed off. its easy to that way on the dash, but then i add ppl on discord and idk something shifts and i get scared. i dont know how to do conversations anymore, i suck at it. I join servers and then I just mute them because it gets overwhelming.
I used to be all for that back in the day. god if you knew me then you'd probably shocked by how I am now. I threw myself at every opportunity, i dont think anything really scared me. Its not just an online thing either, i just, with everything. The idea of possibly getting hurt never hit me back then. now its all I think about. letting someone in, letting them get to know me. I think about how many people that couldn't have meant something more to me if I had just taken the chance. i think about how much i wish i could be that person again. the more i spend on here, watching everyone have fun. i dont know why i think I cant have that again. like its just something i dont get to have. im actually scared of so much. i want to be seen but then i'm afraid of what will happen if people see a little too much. i like making people feel seen, letting them know they aren't alone, that they are special and important and everything they think they aren't. that i see it but then when they send it back to me, i just.. i dont know how to take it.
people tell me things all the time and then later I find out it was all lies. it makes it so hard to wonder whats real, whats not. trying to figure out how how important am I in this persons life and am I as important as they are to me. what boundaries i have to set. and ive always told myself, im fine with being alone. im gotten used to it, I've accept this is how I am. I'm comfortable with it. i know how to love me, i know how to entertain me, i know how to get by with it just being me. because i never trust anyone enough to try it a different way. and its why being here is so hard because I am scared. i see how everyone interacts with each other, I want so badly to experience an inkling of that again but im terrified. because it used to be easy. and it hurts and im trying so hard not to lie to myself because I know avoiding the issue isnt going to help me either. its not just something I feel only on this blog either, its across. its tumblr. and i know a lot of my bitterness on this site comes from how people act, and how they pretend to be something they arent. how i feel we just get ignored if we aren't performing the way we should.
Maybe its why i dont leave completely. because I still have met good people, and maybe I stay for them. or maybe im still looking, maybe its both. building connections is supposed to the point of this hobby. making friends, and I feel like i've honestly forgotten how to do that. and thats on me. i have to learn to do better. but its becoming so hard to come on this site and see everyone bonding, and being together and I just, can't. i can't let myself. i can't rip off my own bandaid and put myself out there. because I do feel like i'm watching from outside a window, and smiling because I love to see it. all the fun, all the memes and the jokes. it makes me laugh, but i feel like thats inside, i cant just walk in. crazy i know. but i know its because, im afraid, afraid of what happens when i get rejected, or if it becomes too real and i have to pull away. i wish i could wash myself clean of it. stop being so scared, stop worrying that everyone i come into contact with is going to bad intentions. I've had to sit out of so much from people I love because of how situations ended up, i've been cut out of so much, i've had to listen and watch others have fun without me in my own life. i think ive just have been isolated so long i dont know how to not just, be by myself. i hate when ppl call me strong for it too, because i wish I could fall apart. I wish I could crash out and scream and shout and let it out but i just cant. because i wished for so long there was someone i could count on to let me fall, let me cry it out, for once be the one to reach out to me. to notice. and all i ever got was silence from people I was counting on. and now i get that from a select few and I dont know how to receive it. and it makes me feel broken as fuck. it makes me feel horrible and awful.
but um, let me shut up cuz now I feel like I overshared, but im also crying, and it's getting hard to see cuz my glasses are fogging up. but thank you guys for giving me a brief moment of that sense of community and belonging. you're all really wonderful people, amazing writers. keep being that.