I’ve been saying it a great deal lately, I realized, but to the people in my life. And for all the sorrying I have sorried since I knew I had a free mind, I have done nothing, I’m afraid to earn my way out of this Hell, if such a thing is possible, and his voice, “you’d be perfectly happy if you were the only person in the world” and maybe my sin is as simple and basic as that, maybe taking that one step back to watch the people of the world is the same as not being among them, I’m in a separate universe, one that is superior in its separateness, and I’m not too happy being alone there, and you’re supposed to take men to you and so I do, and you’re supposed to deal with teenage bullshit and I do, and you’re supposed to make and keep friends and I do, but maybe all that is simply to avoid facing the truth about myself, maybe I go through the motions of connection - boys, bullshit, fucking “friends” - so I can live with my “precious” aloneness and not feel damned.
But I am damned. I am damned indeed. And maybe it’s why we’re all damned. maybe a father can join himself to an image of a daughter until he can’t, and a woman can join with a man ‘till she can’t, and the can’t part of it means it’s not doing the father or the wife any good anymore, for himself, for herself, for my arrogantly self-absorbed self, you just want to get away from the other and you’ll stop at nothing until you do.
And with all this thinking, I’m thinking that none of it sounds right, none of it, and I’m thinking maybe the thinking itself is the problem, your mind is free but it’s free all to itself, you’re never more alone than in your mind. Only in our bodies are we together. Maybe it’s all about the thereness, there’s nothing more than every moment lived in these bodies on Earth, and there is nothing more there than in our past. And the problem is, we try to think it out when we should just hold on to each other, and if we hold on, all the pain and all the pleasure are the same, it’s all one big complex thing that is ok, that is really ok, but it is ok only if you take all of your life in through your sense and stay in the moment, holding on.
But even as I think this now, even as I think of the alternatives to thinking because I think the problem is thinking, it feels untrue in just the same way again.
Fuck me. Fuck you. Fuck us all.