This Is Me Being Optimistic

Posted by Taizen Chisou on May 11, 2012, 2:09 p.m.

I wasn't having the best day today.

I dunno, it might have been the startling awareness of a lack of any really good friends, or maybe the idea that everyone seems really distant and depressed.

In any case, I'm over that now.

Slightly.

Perhaps it's a weirdness that follows your mother being intolerant of your thoughts/ideals/beliefs, or maybe your father being just so far out there that he probably doesn't feel like your father anymore.

I mean, he's there. But what does he do?

Other than yell at you and shake his head every other day about you.

My friends have all been feeling pretty distant for a while, with all the thanks to the school's simply amazing new way of grouping together the lunch periods. Get this- instead of by grade, it's by where your next class is at. Brilliant.

As a result, a lot of the people you know are probably not going to be in the hour that you have lunch and you're also dining alongside people who think that they usually sit wherever you usually sit and it becomes a big mess of isolation and boredom and moving around the cafeteria.

I went to go and talk to one of my teachers, who I had for an English class in freshman year, two years ago.

She was talking about how everything will get better and how everything between now and when it does is more than likely to tremendously suck.

And well, I can believe that. The situation could totally get better and it looks for now as if it isn't going to do anything but tremendously suck, but I just wish that it were a bit easier.

I try. Maybe not as hard as I could, given I'm not made of magic, but I still here. It's kind of sad that I have to try to do very much at all these days, but I do.

Just yesterday me and my dad got in an argument that left me so angry as to not care about anything that I do.

Which is pretty scary. I don't think I've ever not cared about drawing or composing or programming- they pretty much make up my life.

Which is being totally serious, by the way. I don't have anyone really to fill the role of "best friend" anywhere and the best I can do is a loose cluster of "regular friends" who all are currently experiencing problems of their own and couldn't be bothered to deal with much else.

I do appreciate that one of them asked me what was wrong. I was genuinely trying to look as if nothing was wrong.

It's just…

I don't know.

I've never been beset with as much uncertainty in regards to my home life, or friends, or school, or anything, and it scares me.

I honestly don't know if everything is going to magically fix itself anytime soon.

Even if I highly doubt it.

Sorry for the rant, I suppose. I figure no proper self-healing would happen if I didn't attention whore on the side :V

Comments

JuurianChi 12 years, 7 months ago

I'll be your best friend dude.

We will have an awesome time together.

:thumbsup:

Taizen Chisou 12 years, 7 months ago

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I'll be your best friend dude.

We will have an awesome time together.

:thumbsup:

<3

I was on the way to math class at the time of writing, so I couldn't leave this as it was because I felt as though this came out very rushed. But oh well.

I don't feel as though there's an awful lot more to add.

I will be making efforts to pick up all the fragmented bits of my life, to note. I'm getting a job. I'm going to try to kick ass on final exams.

I'll try to be there at home for my little sister when my mother is too preoccupied with the television, or when my father is too busy. Be there when he has to leave for a month to work.

My brothers and sisters all can continue to be busy people, I suppose. I can stop bothering them and being needy all the time to them.

I'm going to confront the guy that I like, and if I get rejected (which is an inevitability,) then oh well.

Being gay means that I have to accept rejection as a much larger part of my life now, I find.

I'm going to try to refine my hobbies and stuff, as well. Gonna try to get better at the piano and go to the Y more often or something.

Gonna get my license in two weeks. Everything is looking up.

I don't see why everything has to be so terrible now. But at least I can view it now as standing on the precipice of something greater. More positive.

Something with less absolute bullshit.

Sheppard 12 years, 7 months ago

Well…people don't always agree with my views, but I'm usually an optimist.

To tell the truth dude, life is hard. It's a fact. But life is hard for everyone, remember you mentioned your friends having trouble as well. Yet somehow, we still see people smiling and laughing everyday although their lives are equally hard. Maybe the saying 'Life is what you make it' is not quite true, but I still believe that your outlook on life is what you make it.

Sorry to pull a Dr. Phil, just wanted to give some of my input and maybe some help.

firestormx 12 years, 7 months ago

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Being gay means that I have to accept rejection as a much larger part of my life now, I find.
As a straight male, I take offense to that. *shakes fist*

Anyway, you are on the precipice of something greater. Bear in mind, though, that you'll find that few things in life bring you out of a slump as fast as a relationship will. For everything else, life will gradually move upwards, and you won't really even notice it.

Of course, it'll go back down, but it goes back up again. Just roll with it. It's life. It's continuous. If you don't like it now, just hold tight, and it'll move forward, and you'll head back up.

LAR Games 12 years, 7 months ago

Hey man, I'll be your best friend too. We'll watch My Little Pony all the time!

Rob 12 years, 7 months ago

Quote: Maricón
Get this- instead of by grade, it's by where your next class is at. Brilliant.

For both elementary and high school it was at the same time for the entire school…

Quote: FSX
As a straight male, I take offense to that. *shakes fist*

Yeah, poor FSX has to be rejected by kilin daily.

Quote: LAR
Hey man, I'll be your best friend too. We'll watch My Little Pony all the time!

You better not make Taizen's imouto watch MLP.

Taizen Chisou 12 years, 7 months ago

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For both elementary and high school it was at the same time for the entire school…

I find our team of 10 to 12 old lunch ladies a little ill-equipped to handle an onslaught of 1,400 students at once. Not to mention the lines.

I'd love to be among the 1,000 who every day take their cars and eat elsewhere, but I don't have my license quiiiite yet.

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Hey man, I'll be your best friend too. We'll watch My Little Pony all the time!

You should get in line when it comes to MLP.

I've a veritable flock of bronies at school who have been trying to drown me in it for months.

I'd take you up on the friends thing, though :D

@Sheppard

You don't get it; I want all of them to drop their problems and come to my aid :V

Ideally, my friends wouldn't have problems of their own :D

Charlie Carlo 12 years, 7 months ago

You should move to PA and hang out with me and my friends. The biggest problem any of us have is not having jobs (which isn't a terribly problematic problem at the moment.).

Life's just a ride, dude.

Taizen Chisou 12 years, 7 months ago

Ha, I've got a couple invitations to schools up in Pennsylvania :V

I'll tell you if I'm ever knocking around :D

Sheppard 12 years, 7 months ago

Quote: Charlie Carlo
You should move to PA and hang out with me and my friendst

Dude I think I know why your avatar looks like rebellious amish boy now…