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The boy who destroyed the world...
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| ...I've seen enough to know that beautiful things don't always stay that way... |
[Oct. 4th, 2009|09:02 pm] |
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| | 'Scars' - Papa Roach | ] | 'Mis heridas me recuerdan que el pasado es real Mi corazon esta abierto para poder sentir.'
I haven't written - really written - in this for a while. I am angry at the moment; angry with other people, angry with the road that I am walking down at the moment, angry with Fate, angry with circumstance and, most of all perhaps, angry with myself.
Right now I feel let down by the two people that I never would have expected to let me down. There are people that you almost expect to let you down, for example in all honesty, especially when looking back through things documentated in this, I always knew that I could never rely on you. So many times you let me down and I always knew it would end up like it did, I always felt that it was wrong for me and deep down I knew it but always went back out of a mixture of low self confidence and a fear of being alone. In hindsight I shouldn't have wasted so much trying to settle for something that clearly wasn't destined to be, second best, but I couldn't help myself and right now i do feel alone even though it's not so much you I miss but just what you were.
I digress, some people you know will let you down. With the majority of people you Hope that they won't let you down but when they do it doesn't surprise you, just reaffirms what you already knew about human nature and that slow realisation that at the end of the day people are only out for themselves. Having been working for over a year now I have learnt that when it comes down to it, people are only looking to themselves and that saddens me but it's true. So when the two people who I have always trusted the most start to let me down it does upset me, and it makes me angry.
Several weeks ago I spent money (that I don't have) and time off work, not to mention a lot of travelling to come with you. All the time that you spend talking about how amazing your friends from Sheffield are, that's fine but when it fucking came down to it how many of them came? That's not rhetorical, it's an easy question to answer: One. I have nothing against them but to be honest over the last year you have pretty much ignored us, and then your amazing other friends don't even make an effort. I do and you treated me with such distain; don't worry, I know how ashamed you genuinely about it but that doesnt matter. I expected the inside jokes, doesn't bother me as I am bigger than that, but I didnt expect the childish ignorance that she displayed for a lot of the time and I didn't expect to literaly be left out in the cold. We go back a long way, which just makes it worse. I love you, I really do. All I will say is pick your friends wisely because when you need them, when they need to stand up and be counted, who are you going to be able to count on?People who say they will but don't? Or people that will take the time to try? To make an effort? One day it's going to happen, just don't be surprised by the results if you pick the wrong path.
Then other person, well they let me down a lot. In little ways but still frustrating. In fact really so frustrating that I always now expect to be let down. It's become a running joke with some of my friends at work since I filled them in. But I shouldn't have to carry on in this way expecting to be let down. If you were in my position you would have given up a long time ago. I genuinely gave up a while ago, I really did. I thought maybe I was being a twat - maybe I am - but then it starts all over again and I just feel vindicated. I love you too, but again when you need people - which you will and you know it - don't waste time wondering why no one runs to help because I can tell you why.
Don't get me wrong, I am far far far from perfect. I am just as bad I am sure but on the whole I don't let you guys down i dont think, I just want to be happy and at the moment people who should contribute to that are actually countering this.
Please prove me wrong.
In other news, I feel so stagnant at the moment. Every day is the same but when you are stuck in a rut you are just that, Stuck. The more you try to fight it and climb out, the more you slip and the deeper you fall. That's why so many people pass by the wayside and live these boring, scarcely comfortable, lives. I dont want that but if that's what I am destined for - which I dont think I am - but if I am, I want to be able to turn around in ten years time and be able to hold my head up high telling myself that I gave it my best fucking shot and I did everything I fucking could to suceed. I cant do that right now but it's time to aspire. I have never really pushed for anything in my life, I have got through by trying at I would say 60% during school, between 10 - 70% at University and now 50% at work. Has to change, I have to back myself.
Maybe it's time to start over. It's never too late and maybe soon it can all be a fresh start. Time to make a fucking effort and walk into this world with my head held high.
Hope. Faith.
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| ...We weren't meant to be, we just happened... |
[Jul. 17th, 2009|07:54 pm] |
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| | 'Mexico' - Incubus | ] | Well that was the right thing to do. It doesn't feel like it was but I know deep down that it was. Not just for me, for both of us. That doesn't make it any easier. It is time to change things, I started, got interrupted but I guess that I can just start all over again. I do know though, that many things, places, people, memories, bind us together. They will forever bind us together; you will always have a part of me and I will always have a part of you. Here's to the future. May it be better than much of the past.
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| 'You should have known the rain was coming...' |
[Jul. 7th, 2009|08:46 pm] |
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| | 'The Tempest' - Pendulum | ] | I have so many thoughts swirling around in my head at the moment and when it comes to recording them here my mind suddenly goes blank. All I know is that at some point things have to change but I am genuinely scared for when they do. It's so easy to sink into the grind, the routine, the ease of normal working life but it hides the truth; that day by day we get older and the opportunities to make ourselves, to have the Hollywood moments, to live - they fall away gradually.
I am so confused, more confused than I have ever been before and I am not sure how to bring the confusion to an end.
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| A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one ever told them to.. |
[May. 21st, 2009|11:28 pm] |
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| | How to Disappear completely - Radiohead | ] | Further note to self -
...No, it wasn't.
Now, so confused and not sure what to do. Has anything actually changed? No, yet I am trying to convince myself, against my better judgement, that it has. I vowed never to make the same mistake, somehow this time I don't think I will, but at the same time I will. Makes no sense; yet at the same time makes perfect sense, more sense than anything has ever made before.
On a separate note, I feel that I am currently wasting my life. God, Allah, the higher power, the code of energy, whatever particular concept or belief system you follow; one of/all of the above gave me intelligence, kindness, athleticism, wit, knowledge, independence. I think I was put here to do something, or to do more than what I am doing now. I don't know how to discover what 'it' is, I think that one day it will discover me. I have to make sure that my job doesn't grind me down to such an extent that I am too blind, lazy, relectant, ignorant to accept 'it'. I am waiting for that day.
I thought that things would be better, cured, I went through a lot of years of torment and fear because I was afraid. I stood up to that in the belief that it would be sorted for good, enable me to be normal because I have missed out on a lot. It's why I have no self confidence. At the moment, apart from last September, it hasn't worked. It's not the same kind of pain, but this is worse and I wish it would stop. Please make it stop. Thank you.
Hope. Faith.
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| Kings... |
[Apr. 19th, 2009|10:08 pm] |
Note to self -
...Is this what I have been waiting for?
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| I'm about to see a million things I thought I'd never see before... |
[Apr. 19th, 2009|09:53 pm] |
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| | 'Wonderwall (acoustic baby)' - Noel G | ] | ...and I'm about to do all the things I dreamed of and I don't even miss you at all.
I always always write jumbled incoherent entries in here but that sums up the way that my life always seems in this state of flux recently. I always always write of hope and faith. It's always important to have hope and to keep your faith; without both of these then it's very easy to drop into a state of despair about even the smallest of life circumstances. I have never been good with hope and faith no matter how hard I try but I feel that I am now getting somewhere.
If I can't be happy right now then when the fuck can I be? The text message on Friday. Well, to be completely honest with myself it didn't really hurt to ignore it and that's amazing because it means that I am now done with you. Not only the concept of me and you, but you in general. I don't want you in my life...I always said that I wanted you in my life in some way, but now I realise that I don't and actually I want you the fuck away from me :) The callous and selfish way you have treated me shows that I am better without for whatever reason - I know you aren't really a nasty person - but I allowed myself to be treated like that and you allowed yourself to do so without a second thought. I saw you the other day in town and carried on walking. At the time I felt something, now I just realise that was nostalga and not replying to your stupid text shows I can now move on with my life. I don't need you and I hope that you move on too; I doubt you have had much trouble on that front.
People grow up and that is what I am doing. I am going to be moving out soon and I have met someone fantastic. It's still early days but I can feel something there; if nothing comes of it then I'll be sad but at least this has helped me move on from you.
I have more of a social life at the moment, keeping busy is good and as above who knows what will come of several things going on in my life right now. I hope that things carry on like this and get better; I have faith that this is going to be the case because I feel like I deserve it :)
Hope.Faith.
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| ...And our scars remind us that the past is real... |
[Mar. 29th, 2009|09:35 pm] |
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| | 'Scars' - P Roach | ] | hmm, that title is quite important to me but in ways that aren't particularly obvious. It's about something physical, actual genuine scars, but also scars that are attached to something that affected me mentally to such a degree that at times I was moved to tears just thinking about it. I can never really explain it, i never want to think about it, that's in the past really but only one person really has any idea what I am on about and that's how it will stay for a while i should imagine. Just horrible, terrifying, really fucking scary actually and I wish that I had faced it years and years ago but I was too scared. I wonder if, had I done it years ago, things would be different. Probably not, but you never know. I know you read this, or at least you used to read it anyway. Things aren't too bad right now, better than they have been. Last weekend was awesome, lov spending time with my best friend very important, he knows that even if I don't tell him he knows that he's the best ;) I am fed up work, I am so much better than this place but what can I do, I am too scared to move. Like Tim says in the office; At the moment, I'm on a 3. If I roll the dice, it could be a 6. Could also be a 1. Feed run down and hemmed in, just want to escape. Enjoy myself. Varsity seems a long way off, but I am so looking forward to it you wouldn't believe. I don't miss you at all. Really, I don't. Fed up with being let down, fed up with second guessing and trying to mould myself to fit. Just not worth it. Like I said to one of your friends, I do love you deep down. And deep down, you love me too. But that just isn't enough sometimes, need more than that like a willingness to change slightly and make an effort. Think you might realise that one day, wonder what might have been because at one stage I would have done anything for you but that time is long gone and right now I don't lose much sleep over it. wish you well, you know I would have been good for you but now we will never know. I think the cowardice you showed recently kind of shows what you really think of me, and that's a shame because I know that really you are a good person. Take care, don't regret anything because everything is mainly down to your decisions anyway. I am moving on, trying to anyway and all the better for it. wake up early. bus and Ipod. work. eat. speak on phone. send email. stare out window and wish I was somewhere else. go to gym. Bus and Ipod. Walk home. Eat. Sleep. Same again. Every day. Still waiting, got Hope and faith but for how much longer... |
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| ...Ode to summer... |
[Mar. 6th, 2009|09:58 am] |
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| | 'Total Immortal' - you know who | ] | ages ago I wrote, 'How many times can you let one person let you down before enough is enough?'
Well, I guess that I still don't know and the moral of the story is that I don't learn from my mistakes. It's one mistake I won't be making again. The really sad thing is that I knew what would happen, I didn't expect any different and yet I still allowed it to happen. How stupid am I.
I am so bored of everything right now, I need something different, need something to happen. I'm waiting. don't know how long for, don't know who or what I am waiting for but I am still waiting... |
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| Don't tell me that you're sorry cause you're not... |
[Dec. 29th, 2008|01:49 am] |
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| | 'my fork in the road (your knife in my back' - Atreyu | ] | ...when I know you're only sorry you got caught.
.It’s like you can’t go back but knowing that just makes me want to call my friends and tell them that I’m coming home. |
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| Are you thinking of me with ure lips pressed up against his skin does your body still scream my name |
[Nov. 4th, 2008|07:24 pm] |
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| | 'A Death-Grip on yesterday' Atreyu | ] | Fuck me there must be more to life than this lol so so much more and I know I am still relatively young in the grand scheme of things but I just want to live. To do all the things I always wanted to do,with the people I have wanted to do them with. However, after messing things up big time with a certain person I don't think this will ever happen now lol Links like that don't just come and go, you have one, two if you are lucky during your life. Some people probably never feel that closeness, that connection. But it was there, i know it because I felt it. I felt it when I was young and didn't know any better. And I felt it a few months ago after a long period of disconnection when very quickly it was like nothing had changed and in fact nothing had apart from the fact that sex is involved now. and that is good and that is another reason why I know that it was a special as fuck connection and now it's all gone...and mostly my fault but not wholly my fault. What did she expect? She's like me, will never admit fault at all, but I think she is actually worse than me and will never in a million years admit any liabilty at all. And that is probably part of it. But yes, there must be so much more than this. I sit in an office and look out the window and this serves as a permanent remninder that there is a big wide bright organic joyous shitty horrible friendly callous world out there that is screaming my name so it can suck me up and spit me out, sometimes in good places and sometimes in dark shitty places but that's the gamble you take and that is life I suppose.i miss my friends, all of you, all over the U.K. My two Bristol friends who have always been there and I've never been perfect but I have always been proud to be your friend and this bond will last a lifetime till it's severed by death. And my Uni friends who showed me experiences and feelings and joy that I would never have felt and rescued me from total meltdown and I don't think they trully know that but they don't need to. And I miss her. and her. slightly. One more than the other and it's wrong that it is in this proportion but I doubt she cares. So many things to do, so little time. I wrote prevoiously of Hope and Faith. Well here I am, and I'm still fucking waiting so hurry up life because I'm in a fucking hurry and so bored of being stationary that I'm making myself go backwards. Hope? Faith?
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| ...Hands Down (Simply put 'Fuck What Have I Done')... |
[Sep. 29th, 2008|06:33 pm] |
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| | '11 am' - Incubus. | ] | 'Who knows where I will be, where we all will be in a years, five years or even twenty years time. Scary to think lol. In the end of the day, we eat, drink, go to work at Axa, get through the days knowing that, like the few times this has happened before, I can get through this and that there are fantastic times head, but before then its gonna be really fucking tough.'
Taken from the journal of my Best Friend in the whole world because this paragraph sums up pretty much how I feel right now.
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| ...an Irishman's Kitchen... |
[Jul. 27th, 2008|10:42 pm] |
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| | 'Stay with me'- Finch | ] | ...And I always thought, I would end up with you eventually...
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| ...July 16th, forever etched into memory... |
[Jul. 16th, 2008|08:55 pm] |
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| | 'Always where I need to be'- The Kooks | ] | Hey Grandad
Hope you are well up there, lookng down, guiding me but allowing me to make my own mistakes and my own successes at the same time. I hope you are proud of the things I have achieved and the person that I have grown to be. I know at times I haven't been all that I can be, and for that I am sorry. I know I should have got a first at Uni, I know that, you know that, she knows that, everyone knows that but I still did ok. I know that if you hadn't been taken from us so early you would have gone to everything. Every football match- yeh I'm actually a pretty good player aren't I- home and probably away, every rugby match and the cricket matches. You would probably go to Cadbury Heath every other week like we used to, and probably would be sat in between me and your son every week at Rovers! I'm trying to make my own way in the world, I am doing things that no one else in the family has ever even considered let alone done, like being the first to graduate from University and things like that. I hope I would have made you proud in all that I have done, and I hope that I make you proud with everything I am going to do in the future. I know that I will see you again one day (hopefully a long time in the future!), you can teach me some of that crazy Bristolian or something! You will be there at my wedding, when my kids are born, my grandchildren, when Bristol Rovers win the Champions League (I can dream!!), and I will tell them about you. I miss you, keep looking out for me.
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| ...Shine, Shine, Shine On... |
[Jul. 14th, 2008|09:46 pm] |
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| | 'Shine on' - The Kooks | ] | Wow, karma you fucking rock. I have graduated, got some job interviews that seem pretty hopeful and I got the girl. Well, for now but that's better than not at all lol. For the first time in a long time I feel happy. I feel content. .Faith. .Hope. x
Safety pins holding up the things That make you mine About your hair, you needn't care, You look beautiful all the time.
Shine, shine, shine on... ...Wont you shine, shine on |
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| .Is this how buildings look when there is no one there to see them?. |
[Jul. 2nd, 2008|12:09 am] |
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| | 'The quiet things that no one ever knows'- Brand New | ] | Treat it as a fresh start. Consign the whole sorry spectacle to the past and start over, surely the only way to go about things. When someone has so much of you, and they know that, and they treat you like this, the parts of you that they have die. So, one the one hand a blank canvas. I have the Degree, the education system has finally spat me out the other side, the system I've been a part of since the age of 3, and this is the chance to do whatever I want. But she will still have those parts of me and they are slowly dying away, and the worrying thing is that those parts won't come back and I honestly can't see them being given to someone else in the future because those parts, as I just said, are dead. I fucking hate this.
On the other hand, hands down the best week of my life. fucking carnage, great to escape with my fave people in the sun and leave her and all the other shit behind here, get wankered and do things that I woud never ever ever ever dream of doing normally. I feel different now. I can't explain it but I'm not the same person I was a week ago. confidence maybe, but think it's deeper than that.
...So here i am , alive at last and I'll savour every minute of this... |
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[May. 8th, 2008|09:19 pm] |
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| | 'Always where I need to be'= Kooks | ] | Nice weather.Good times roll. Had a vaguely religous experience whilst getting tattooed listening to AFI and ALexisonfire.Tired.Lonely.But surrounded at all times.Weird. How many times can you let one person let you down before enough is enough?What can you do if you just can't accept that. fuck knows.
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| .Angels Gracing the Lines?. |
[Mar. 17th, 2008|07:28 pm] |
A few months back I wondered if something extraordinary would happen to make everything click into place; well, a few have.For the first time in a long time, I feel like I belong, like Im wanted somewhere. Ive always had that with my two best friends, who I would swap for no-one else on earth because they have my back and I have theirs, and without knowing it they have helped me keep sane this year in ways they will never know, so guys if you ever read this you know who you are.Everytime we get together we have an awesome time, even if its just fucking about for a few hours or whatever, we always laugh and smile and have a happy time and that is so fucking cool, and we never care about what the others think about us because we were born losers, and losers we shall always be, and that is in no way a bad thing or an insult.We just have a good time, and for that i am eternally thankful.But yeh, aside from that, this term I have felt so much more like part of a puzzle, a part that fits.I am having fun for the first time in ages (away from the environment I described above), and loving it.I am living.I am being positive, and living.I am being what I have always been capable of being, but never really been able to embrace and hold on to.Im letting go of certain things, huge things, things I never dreamed I could let go of.But letting go I am,It was difficult at first, Im quite a weak person, i set myself up for disapointment time and time again, but i know that I will never be good enough, or even just never be enough, and for those reasons I just have to breathe in and let go.If you go out looking for things, more often than not you won't find them.If you try too hard, or force things, or depend so much on finding those things, you will always struggle, and probably won't actually get them,If you step back, relax, and just live, then things happen to you, that's life.People will touch your life in the most amazing ways if you let them, you just have to let them in and see what they have to offer. So, things did come along, and one thing in particular has come out of nowhere, and I am grateful, and I am trying to be a good person at the moment.I wrote of Karma before, and Karma has certainly come around and done its stuff, and I have learnt my lesson.Hope is so important, and faith.Not just in a religous sense, because you can have faith in other ways too, but yes, Faith and Hope.These things are integral to life, and i have them, always have, always will. Not everything is perfect of course, things never will be, nothing is perfect, but close to perfect would be enough for me.I do have pre-conceived, ill thought through plans as to how my life will turn out, but who knows what is around the corner, I just want to be happy.Sounds simple, and obviously theres more to it than that, but that's what I want.And right now, even though there are some shit things in my life, I am on the whole happy.And that is fucking awesome.It really is.
HOPE.FAITH.
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