There's this strange anger boiling up within me. It's violent and reckless and I don't know how to control it....sometimes I'll enter these horrible fits of rage and start attacking the closest person near me...which always happens to be my boyfriend.
Two months ago, when I started to go on birth control I used to get really angry. I would just start punching him and cursing at him, and then fall down on my knees and sob apologetically. Last night I got into a nasty fit because I was embarrassed by his moms boyfriend in a chess game. he had been drinking and I haven't played chess in about 7 years and he kept going on how my moves were reckless and not as offensive and I was just trying to show up my boyfriend, who so happened to be the one I was playing against. I was getting really flushed in the face and on the verge of tears. I happen to like silence when playing this game and the extra company just heightened my nerves in a bad way. On top of his lovely commentary I told the two I was tired and needed to go to bed. My love knew that something was wrong and when he later returned to bed (by the way this was around 4 in the morning) I told him everything I felt but didn't get the sympathy I self consciously needed. He told me that you can't know what a person is feeling. The comment struck me hard because it was so true.
Then for some reason, while I was fuming silently trying to hold my anger back, everything felt....red. Even though we were in the dark I felt and saw red. I proceeded to go into one of my fits which again ended with me sobbing uncontrollably and apologizing...which I’ve been doing a lot lately...go figure. I don't know how I could "feel" red but that's what happened to me. Sometimes I wish I could disappear...I don't feel good enough for him or for anyone. Everyone thinks I’m this sweet quirky pretty girl that can get what she wants but the thing of it is that I don't know what I want. I don't know what to do. I’m sooo indecisive and insecure. I hate the way I’ve been acting towards my boyfriend. My horrible guilty thought is that when he's not around I’ve noticed I’m...happier. Every time I think of this I feel like I’ve been punched in the stomach. I don't want to be happy without him; I want to be happy with him. No one can help me...they all assume that they can relate...
Or maybe someone can help me and I’m just being too ignorant to actually care. The problem is me...I know it's not my boyfriend. Is this the scar that my parents have inflicted on me? When freedom has finally been obtained this is the horrible price I have to pay? I actually have to PAY for the freedom I’ve been dying for 5 years??? After all the emotional and physical abuse for my entire life I have to PAY for finally getting out of it??!!
....but maybe that's what I get for running away. I never thought things would escalate like this...here I am in my room, far away from everything I once knew...a cute boy is sleeping on my bed...my drawings are in full view and not hidden away in some random place...I can act how I like, drink, smoke, party, stay up till dawn and sleep all day, go out all night...these are things I never dreamed I could ever do. But it all seems hollow to me now. I already knew before doing these things that happiness could never be obtained from them, only ignorant bliss.
What is happiness...? Did I feel it when I was trapped and saw my boyfriend rarely...? Was happiness the little security I had and the thought that I wouldn't really go hungry for days at a time...? What happened to happiness and...why is it so far away...?
That is the question no one can ever answer for me. I’ve grown accustomed to disappointment though, so for the two people who are reading this...don't worry...
Someday I’ll find it.
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