it's been a while. Â i thought randomly that i should come on here and delete all my personal posts but then i don't because i'm too lazy and don't know if i care enough yet.
so despite what i said before i'm now in a monogamous relationship with the boy, not that i wasn't before haha. Â it's going fine. Â honestly, i think when i'm old enough that my friends are getting married and having babies, and i'm seriously thinking how i could be married to this guy and have his babies.... it's still very strange and considering my best friend has told me HORRIBLE THINGS THAT HAPPEN TO YOU WHEN YOU ARE PREGNANT i'm still like i reeeeally don't want kids.... yeah. Â i do want them, but i don't. Â i do want to be polygamous, but i don't. Â i feel it all at the same time.
i watched a video on youtube today, i'll repost it if i remember, but yeah, this guy was talking about what it's like to be genderqueer, and even though i don't quite feel male enough to really say i'm genderqueer, i can say thatÂ
as for the pretty girl who thinks she's ugly and horrible.... *sigh*. Â i'm glad we are in the friends/probably will be roommates/not having sex zone. Â i think it would be cool if we could innocently cuddle more, but i think that would probably just fuck with her (especially since i personally would like to add "making out" to that list but i doubt the boyfriend would go for that) so all in all i'm good with where we are. Â i'm a close enough friend that i can help her with her shit and yet i'm not the girlfriend who really feels as if she has to devote her time to helping her through this shit. Â i've got my own crap to deal with, and taking on hers would be tough. Â i am very grateful my bf seems to have a solid grasp on his emotional state, and he doesn't really need a lot of attention there. Â (i feel i'm in the middle)
the thing is though, i don't know how to tell her she really needs to just get off her ass and do SOMETHING. Â i mean, she's 20, not in school, no job, still lives with parents, and spends her time playing instruments, on the computer, or sleeping. Â
and you know what? Â i feel for her so hard, i really do. Â i have depression and sometimes that shit knocks me down and i'm completely useless for a day, semi-useless for a week, whatever depending on the situation. Â i know the feeling of wanting to spend all my time in bed, i get it all the time. Â it's cozy, nothing happens, it doesn't cost anything and no one can hurt you. Â how much better can it get, right? Â totally get that. Â and i totally get that on top of depression, she has a bunch of anxiety issues and is transgender, and each of these things is just a whole fucking mess piled on top of mess, and i can't comprehend how those would impact me were i in her situation but i can estimate that it would be a whole bunch more shitty.
the good thing is that i feel she's really trying to work on her mental situation. Â she's making appointments and (as far as i know) mostly keeping them, getting a shrink... all great things that i think in the long run will allow her to work on becoming who she wants to be, maybe cut down on the self-hate and focus more on her life and not her mental problems. Â and i think this is necessary if she ever wants to be motivated enough to do what she's gotta do.
the bad thing is, those positive effects are not going to help her get a job or move out, things she wants so badly to do. Â unfortunately, the only way to do this is to physically get out there and do it. Â whether it be fight with the government to get on welfare, hand out resumes to anyone and everyone (and make sure that resume is awesome and you take the time to get the manager and do all that asskissy bullshit), fight with OSAP and the university to get the hell in there, fight with OSAP and the college and take something there, or, hell, ALL OF THE ABOVE, she needs to just get out there and do it. Â and then when shit happens and there are setbacks and no one will hire you and there's a ton of red tape to go through for the government and schools..... nope, can't stop, gotta keep going to people and talking yourself up and writing letters and making phone calls and standing in lines and handing out resumes and EVERYTHING. Â even volunteering is better than nothing - you're not wallowing in your own misery and you have something to put on your resume. Â
is this shitty?? YOU BET IT IS. Â fuck job hunting, fuck lines, fuck schools, fuck the government. Â it sucks, they suck, they bend you over and rape you. Â but that's life!! you have to do it because if you don't you will be hungry, homeless, broke and miserable. Â the only way out is to fight your way out, trying to find jobs that don't suck, trying to learn skills or get a piece of paper in areas of life that don't suck, and then getting better jobs that suck less, pay more and that you're more likely to enjoy and/or be good at, while trying to coordinate that with what is in demand (because fuck me, if she becomes a teacher like she wants to, sure, that's fine, it's better than what she's doing now, but of all the many many teachers i know, most are super broke, super unemployed, or moving to places to teach that give you isolation pay.)
i wish i knew how to tell her how i do it without wanting to kill myself every day. Â but i can't, because i really don't know. Â when i sit down and think about things, yeah, everything IS shitty. Â how do you tell people to be happy when everything is shitty? Â you can't. Â they have to find their own happiness. Â and i know it's out there. Â because i found it. Â it's in the things i enjoy and the people who are awesome, because as few as they are, they're out there. Â over time i learned to deal with most things that really make me sad or annoy me. Â i guess the only weapon i have is my age and experience, and again, that's not something i can just give people to take along their merry way. Â they have to earn it themselves.
i wrote a lot about that and i really wasn't intending on it. Â it's probably because when i think of tumblr, i think of her. Â