The Other Side Of Me

This Blog is a documentation, a day-to-day account of my coming out process. This is here so people can read, and see where i've made mistakes and where i've made progress, so that during their coming out they can attempt to avoid or emulate those things. It is also here, to show the struggle me and many others have faced, when coming to terms with our sexuality.

10/09/2004

Falling...

They came back, those old feelings, not even an hour ago. They came flooding through my head, that I’m only going to hurt them. That I’m being selfish, that my joy will cause them pain. I just finished crying, and I’m still feeling like shit. What the fuck is wrong with me? Why is my body revolting against me? My hand has still been spazing out, my head hurts, and I feel like a pile of shit. My knee is hurt, my side hurts, I can sleep, and I’m feeling like I did when I was younger. Why am I doing this to myself, every time I try I fall apart. This closet has great power, power I don’t know if I can overcome. Living this lie makes me feel hallow, and worthless. But I have to choose, I have to choose soon. What that decision will be, I don’t know. Either I falsely please them, or I please myself.

Maybe I should wait, but I don’t want to wait any longer. The better half of 23 years I’ve wasted, I’ve spent lying, I’ve spent hiding. Its been far to long, this time should of come so much earlier.

I’m hurting. Every time I see a couple holding hands, embracing, or just hugging it makes me feel so alone. I know if I don’t come out soon, I might never be able to love, myself or anyone else. Hating myself is the only thing I know; I’ve gotten pretty good at it. Now I can’t stop it, everything I do I examine it, to see what I did wrong, what mistake I made, and how I’m to blame. I feel so lost, and I’m afraid. I’m scared after all these years, just like the little boy that I once was. I hate that boy, my goal is to destroy him, he’s only making me angry. It is time to bury that bitch...

2 Comments:

Blogger Musicguy said...

Just know that whatever you decide to do, I wish you the best. You're not alone in this!!!

10/09/2004 1:11 PM  
Blogger Brian Smith said...

Thank you. I know that on some level that i'm not alone, but i've isolated myself so much that in some respects i am. I haven't allowed myself to get close to anyone for fear that they will hate me, i still haven't opened myself up yet. I've got a long way to go, even when i'm out of the closet, but the closet is going to the biggest of all my hurdles.

10/09/2004 9:54 PM  

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