- because you loved me
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xeyesclosedx
- February 7th, 2007
I've recently realized that no matter what I do I can never change who I am and how I got here. I can't make up for mistakes or change the past or my past or my father or anything that leaves me standing completely still some days, wondering if I'll ever be as happy as I always thought I was. I can never turn around and not care about what I'm leaving behind, or what I'm losing in the distant dirt road on a path I'd like to think I cut myself. But I still feel incredibly out of control of every move I make. I feel as if I can never be who I want to be or act the way I want to act or even make the choices I always thought I wanted to make. Even when I try my hardest I still surprise myself sometimes, creating the best of times, creating the worst of times. I wonder if the past is now, if now is then, if the future is so unbelievably unfathomable that it's practically nonexistent. I wonder and I don't even care what the answers are because I can only live one second at a time lately, and it has to be enough because if it isn't I might never make it through a single day. I am undeniably at my best, and sometimes still at my worst, doubting every moment I've ever lived, every decision I've ever made. I suppose I'm not alone, but I feel so alone. But the truth is, being alone is all I really need sometimes and even those chances are far and few. I wait for a million clouds to wash away my sky so that I might squint my eyes and see some sort of dream waiting for only me. And just when I think I have nothing left to say, I begin to type and my fingers can't move fast enough. My mind can't slow down and sometimes I lose my own thoughts on the distant dirt road, falling by the way side with memories of tree houses and trampolines, and a million first kisses that all meant so much. I think if I could time it, I've written this all in a single minute, enough to change my life. Like I said, I have to live for every second because I might not make it though the day. If there's all this in just 60 seconds, you can only imagine what an hour in my heart is like. I don't intend to change anything, though the past still plagues my mind and I wonder if I will ever be enough, even for myself. I started forgetting who I was, but I remember, quite clearly, that my days used to mean something. I drove in the sun today, in the freezing cold weather, and it felt like summer. And even though I drove in my truck with my coat zipped up, it felt like a white car with the sunroof open and a million sun rays piercing my skin. And finally, I felt the past was the past, though it will never leave my mind.